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Kathleen Fraser (1935-2019)

February 26, 2019

Kathleen Fraser, beloved poet, essayist, and professor of writing at San Francisco State University, died on February 5, 2019, in Emeryville, California, of natural causes.

Known for her remarkable body of work—encompassing more than a dozen collections of poetry, seven collaborative artist’s books, a volume of essays, and her lan…

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Contests |
February 26, 2019

2018 Poetry Prize Winner!

Congratulations to Carlos Lara, 2018 Nightboat Poetry Prize Winner! Here is Kazim Ali's full editorial citation for Lara's Like Bismuth When I Enter:  Carlos Lara’s Like Bismuth When I Enter enters the space of ritual, incantation…

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Reviews |
March 20, 2019

Invasive species by Marwa Helal reviewed in The New York Times!

We are so thrilled to share that Marwa Helal's fantastic debut, Invasive species was just reviewed by Stephanie Burt in The New York Times Book Review. Pick up a copy of the Sunday times this weekend to see it in print! "Marwa Helal has lived, not always by her own choice, both in Egypt and in America, belonging to both countries and to neither: “I have been missing home my entire life,” she writes. In the same way, Helal’s first and often stellar book belongs to many categories, and to none. It contains prose and verse; polemic and introspection; remixed pop lyrics…

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Events |
March 19, 2019

#AWP19 Nightboat Author Signing Schedule

Visit booth #8026 at AWP in Portland, pick up our frontlist / backlist / not quite out yet titles & have our fabulous authors sign them! Author signing schedule: Thursday 3/28 10-11am: Fred Schmalz, Action in the Orchards 11-12pm: Marwa Helal, Invasive species 12-1pm: Stephanie Young, Pet Sounds 3-5pm: Gracie Leavitt, Livingry Friday 3/29 12-1pm: jayy dodd, The Black Condition ft. Narcissus 1:30-2: Hazel White, Vigilance Is No Orchard 2-3pm: Marwa Helal, Invasive species + Fred Schmalz, Action in the Orchards 3-4pm: Brian Teare, Doomstead Days + Stephanie Young, Pet Sounds 4-5pm: Stacy Szymaszek, A Year From Today Saturday 3/30 9-11am: Allison Cobb, Green-Wood 11-12pm: Brian Teare, Doomstead Days 12-1pm: Chad Sweeney, Little Million Doors 1-2pm: Brian Blanchfield, Proxies 2-3pm: Stacy Szymaszek, A…

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Events |
March 13, 2019

#AWP2019 Nightboat Events!

3/28: Thursday | 5-7pm | Nightboat Books Offsite Group Reading featuring: Allison Cobb, Eleni Sikelianos, Aldrin Valdez, jayy dodd, Laura Moriarty, Fred Schmalz, Gracie Leavitt, Dawn Lundy Martin, Marwa Helal, Stephanie Young, Hazel White, Chad…

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Contests |
February 26, 2019

Editorial Selection: Vibratory Milieu by Carrie Hunter

Congrats to Carrie Hunter! Vibratory Milieu for publication in Fall 2020 Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, is on the editorial board of Black Radish Books, and edited the chapbook press, ypolita press, for 11 years. She has two books out with Black Radish Books, The Incompossible and Orphan Machines, and has published around 15 chapbooks, the most recent, Series of out Sequence, from above/ground press. She lives in San Francisco and teaches ESL.

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February 6, 2019

Kathleen Fraser (1935-2019)

Kathleen Fraser, beloved poet, essayist, and professor of writing at San Francisco State University, died on February 5, 2019, in Emeryville, California, of natural causes. Known for her remarkable body of work—encompassing more than a dozen collections of poetry, seven collaborative artist’s books, a volume of essays, and her landmark editorial work championing women writers—Kathleen Fraser made a unique, unparalleled contribution to American literature. She saw her work as “making textures and structures of poetry in the tentative region of the untried.” Or as The New York Times said: “Fraser inhabits a room unquestionably her own, outside any school of poetry.” Born in Tulsa,…

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Awards |
February 5, 2019

Congratulations to Stacy Szymaszek!

Stacy Szymaszek (author of A Year From Today), received the 2019 Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant in Poetry. The New York–based Foundation for Contemporary Arts has named a total of 18 artists who will receive unrestricted grants…

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September 13, 2018

Nepantla Receives Starred PW Review!

Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color just received a starred Publishers Weeky Review:   "Soto (Sad Girl Poems), a cofounder of the Undocupoets campaign and founder of the eponymous online journal at Lambda Literary, reaches back as far as the Harlem Renaissance to offer a taste of the past century’s “queer of color literary history.” In the introduction, Soto cites Gloria E. Anzaldúa as the source of the journal’s name, which, she writes, is “a Nahuatl word meaning tierra entre medio.” The intention is to convey “the feeling of shifting between various communities and identities,” Soto notes, and the work he reproduces…

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September 13, 2018

Apply to be a Fall Intern!

Nightboat Books Internship Program Fall 2018 The Nightboat Books team is pleased to announce our open call for the Fall independent publishing internship program! The internship will have three sessions annually to begin in Summer, Fall and Spring. The program is designed to engage interns in all aspects of literary publishing: editorial, marketing, publicity, online and community engagement, fundraising and development, and other aspects of the publishing industry. This program is designed to be a dynamic experience, offering each intern a valuable overview of publishing, while also getting opportunities to focus on assignments that interest them. Positions are unpaid, but…

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