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"What do you want?" is a difficult question to answer. Laura's Desires—by Laura Henriksen, out today from Nightboat—makes a rigorous attempt. What comes forth is an appropriately playful, phantasmagoric set of poems about our individual and collective desires, what makes and unmakes them, where they lead us. It's all intimate and honest and incredibly hot. In our conversation below we discuss desire, its contents and discontents, as well as doubt and Nan Goldin and tennis—the latter of which Laura is decidedly against. —Dante Silva Dante Silva: I’m curious about the expansive, rigorous citational practice here—the flirtation of criticism and a lived, sustained…

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03/28/24 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 5-6.30 PM Memorial Union Room. 242. With Jacqueline Balderrama, Cecilia Savala, and in conversation with Susan Nguyen 03/30/24 BROOKLYN, NYC, 7-9 PM Word Is Change Bookstore. With Kevin Holden, Emily Lee Luan and…

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Adelita Husni-Bey describes Our Air—out today from Nightboat—as "Delphic, ecstatic, erotic, mystical, riotous, erudite." I would only add the word hilarious. Nora Treatbaby is our lodestar in a strange, hellish landscape, leading us heavenwards to what she calls "a revolution which doesn't feel available to us at the moment." This is a scream at the Apple Store; a love letter to the world; "all vibes." Read our interview below, and come to Nora's launch event this Friday at the Poetry Project. —Dante Silva Dante Silva: I’m interested in all the possibilities, real and imagined, for life and matter. It seems you share this…

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We’re delighted to announce that we will be returning to AWP this February! We hope you will join us at these offsite events or visit our booth #1516 to get your book signed during one of our signings! ***   Celebrate Nightboat at Nimble Brewing Thursday, February 8th At Nimble Brewing 1735 Oak St, Kansas City, MO 64108 5pm-7pm Readings by: Azad Sharma Emily Lee Luan Janice Sapigao Johannes Goransson Jon L Pitt Kevin Holden   Poets Party with Nightboat at Missie B's  Friday, February 9th At Missie B’s 805 W 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111 5pm-7pm Readings by: Andrea Abi-Karam Brian Teare Dior J. Stephens Gillian Conoley Laura Henriksen Nora Treatbaby Ronaldo V. Wilson Rosie Stockton Tiff Dressen Wo Chann   Author Singings at Nightboat Books Booth #1516 Thursday: 11-12 Dior J.…

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This year we received hundreds of submissions to our Prose Reading Period. We are excited to announce that we are accepting two manuscripts for publication! Read more about each of the manuscripts below:   Small Sargassum Mountains/Pequeñas montañas de sargazo by Antonio Ochoa Small Sargassum Mountains/Pequeñas montañas de sargazo is a book of trajectories, of connections, of isomorphisms, of distances.  This book is also a hybrid, where the borders between poetry and prose, reading and writing, Spanish and English, experience and memory are eroded like a shoreline. Antonio Ochoa was born in Mexico City. He has published two books of poems (pulsos and El toro de Hiroshima).…

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"My most childish dream is to be translated," wrote Orides Fontela (b. 1940 in São João da Boa Vista, in the interior of São Paulo). "It's completely silly, of course. But it must be nice to be international." Below is a conversation with Chris Daniels, who compiled and translated the poems in One Impossible Step — the first ever collection of Orides Fontela’s poetry to appear in English, out today from Nightboat. Of the collection, he states he “tried to show the way Orides Fontela cognized life, and to give the reader an idea of what she was like as…

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Joining with many other poetry and arts organizations, Nightboat Books is signing on to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). This means we will not collaborate with Israeli academic and…

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Jasmine Gibson and I first met and collaborated on a performance project in 2019. Since then, we’ve read together, celebrated and dreamed together. From stages to zoom rooms, I’ve had the honor of experiencing Jasmine’s spacious facilitation of ideas and language in conversations with fellow artists. I read a version of her resplendent second poetry collection A Beauty Has Come in 2022 (out today from Nightboat). Revisiting it now, I might draw this throughline to her debut collection Don’t Let Them See Me Like This (2018): Jasmine’s poems take state-sponsored violence not as spectacular interruption but as a regrettably ordinary and ongoing material condition. From…

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