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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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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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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 and trance with a stunning assemblage of images and structures. No line forgets itself because each announces itself past traditional language structures and usages so urgently that one is compelled to pay the most focused attention. One often cites a book’s excellence by saying it bears or invites or rewards rereading and in this case each of these different verbal approaches is true—and the text reads you right back. While reading…

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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…

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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 of $40,000 in its 2019 grant cycle. Congrats Stacy!

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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…

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Book Launch PosterEvents |
September 13, 2018

East Coast Launches for Jasmine Gibson’s “Don’t Let Them See Me Like This”

We are so thrilled to release Jasmine Gibson's debut collection "Don't Let Them See Me Like This" into the world this week! If you're on the east coast, definitely add these launch events to your calendar. Even if you have to take a bus. New York Launch: Join us for our Brooklyn release on July 18th @ Spoonbill Warehouse (99 Montrose) @ 7PM featuring: Jasmine Gibson Stephon Lawrence Tongo Eisen Martin Sean D Henry-Smith Philly Launch: July 21st, West Philly w/ Reek Bell, Raquel Salas Rivera and Oki Sogumi & Jasmine Gibson (DM @calibanthewitch for address)

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Internship PosterOther |
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,…

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Book fair PosterEvents |
September 13, 2018

Nightboat Books @ New York Art Bookfair 2018

Nightboat Books @ New York Art Bookfair 2018 The Nightboat Books team is pleased to announce that for the first time, we will be tabling at the New York Art Bookfair @ Moma PS1. We're tabling all four days from Sept 21-23 as well as hosting authors signings at our table & a reading: Nightboat Books reading with Jen Bervin, Rosamond S King, Aldrin Valdez, Asiya Wadud & Paolo Javier. Rosamond S King won the 2018 LAMBDA award for her collection Rock | Salt | Stone (2017). Jen Bervin, author of Silk Poems (2017), is an interdisciplinary artist and poet whose research-driven works weave together art, writing, science…

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