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April 20, 2021

An Interview with Rosamond S. King on All the Rage

The title of the second collection of poetry by Lambda Award-winning poet and performer Rosamond S. King, All The Rage (published April 2021) has multiple valences: Conveying at once righteous anger towards this country's continued oppression of Black people and the racial coding of rage, it also hints at the usurpation of the movement for Black liberation by corporations, businesses, and influencers. This is a book which urges us not to allow the intensity of public outcry against anti-Black police violence that occurred in Summer 2020 to become merely a moment in history in which Black liberation was "trendy,"…

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April 14, 2021

A Dossier for Akilah Oliver’s the she said dialogues

Happy Birthday to Akilah Oliver! Akilah Oliver (1961-2011) is remembered for her fiercely intelligent and ambitious writing, which sought to do no less than expand the boundaries of an African-American literary dialogic tradition in its troubling of "Blackness," "femaleness," and "homogeneity." She was a mother, a queer woman, and a true renaissance woman, who co-founded the feminist performance collective the Sacred Naked Nature Girls, worked with the Los Angeles Poverty Department (a theater troupe which worked with the homeless), and was a member of Belladonna* Collaborative, a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School, and a professor at Naropa University and…

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February 19, 2021

Jaye & Santi: a parting conversation

Nightboat Books initiated a new fellowship program in 2020 and was fortunate enough to have two incredible individuals in the position: Jaye Elizabeth Elijah (Spring-Summer) and Santiago Valencia (Fall). They made incredible contributions to the press during their tenure. Jaye, while a fellow and then our publicity coordinator, curated the Resonance: Echo series in response to the start of the pandemic, hosted the summer fiction reading, and did invaluable publicity work and outreach. Santi commissioned new contributors to our blog and brought their keen eye and wit to writing and editing projects. Here, Jaye and Santi look back on…

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February 8, 2021

Announcing Our Poetry Prize Winners! ✨

This year we received hundreds of submissions to our annual poetry prize. We are excited to announce that we are accepting four manuscripts for publication!   Read more about each of the prize-winning manuscripts below.   Of Mineral by Tiff Dressen Tiff Dressen sets…

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January 19, 2021

On Emporium: An Interview With Aditi Machado

Aditi Machado’s Emporium is a delectable journey through a modern “silk route” fraught with the consequences of capitalism and globalization, where she unravels and re-entangles the threads of commerce, language, and history in these cinematic, transitory sites of transaction, discovery and expression. Mallika Singh tunes into the contours of Emporium’s sensescape on a molecular level, wonders about the architecture of the text’s emporium, and inquires into the historical and archival research and literary influences that informed Machado’s process. Read on to hear about how somatic attention and ritual, dreams of labyrinthine produce markets, silk erotomania, porosity, and the memories…

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November 24, 2020

Happy Pub Day to WE WANT IT ALL: an interview with the editors!!!

TODAY IS THE DAY!!! WE WANT IT ALL IS OUT OUT OUT IN THE WORLD!!!   We Want It All is an anthology of poems and prose by trans writers who have or are writing from and into the interstitial space of radical poetics and politics, resulting in an intergenerational assembly of formally inventive poetics that engage with revolutionary social movements to explore and interrogate issues of labor, race, desire, community, and embodiment. The work in this anthology is as playful and gossipy as it is wholly determined and uncompromising in its demands for abundance and liberation for all. I caught…

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