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February 27, 2020

Visit Nightboat at AWP 2020!

Come visit Nightboat in San Antonio for AWP! We'll be at Booth #1045 at the Book Fair, with our full lineup of author signings: THURSDAY: 1-2pm: Jared Stanley (author of EARS) 2-3pm: Gillian Conoley (author of A…

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February 26, 2020

The Making of SPEECH: Reflections on Abu Dhabi, Walking, Weaving, and Poetry

By Jill Magi I live in a high rise building in Abu Dhabi called Sama Tower; sama means “sky” or “heavens” in Arabic. From my writing desk I look down on parking lots and streets and alleys where I see people making their way on the diagonal, diverting from the grid as they go. There is another important diagonal shape in this city: mosques that face Mecca. While the main avenues run parallel to the Gulf, each block houses at least one mosque that cuts through the city’s grid. This is a quintessential Abu Dhabi shape: the secular and the…

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February 19, 2020

Announcing Nightboat’s Poetry Prize Winner!

Congratulations to Muriel Leung, Nightboat's Poetry Prize Winner! Read Kazim Ali’s full editorial citation for Leung’s Imagine Us, The Swarm below: "Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us, The Swarm offers seven powerful texts that form a constellation of…

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January 13, 2020

A Little More Red Sun on the Human: Gillian Conoley on Her New and Selected Works

Here at Nightboat we have the pleasure of sharing with you all A Little More Red Sun on the Human, a collection of new and selected poems from Gillian Conoley. This collection features the classic and southwesterly "The Invention of Texas," a poem originally from Some Gangster Pain with Carnegie Mellon University Press, alongside a selection of Conoley's other work that spans across many years and landscapes. A Little More Red Sun on the Human both continues and eclipses the vibrant, illustrative, and historical work that Conoley's poems have been invested in for so long. Following the curation of…

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November 13, 2019

Looking Back On Our Interns, Summer 2019!

Our interns make the Nightboat world go 'round! Each Fall, Spring, and Summer we host interns who are interested in learning about the independent publishing world in a hands-on, intellectually stimulating environment deeply enmeshed in the writing scene here in New York City. We really cherish the opportunity on our end to meet so many promising, talented, and passionate folks and, frankly, it's hard to see them go! That said, please join us in celebrating our fabulous Summer interns, Sahar and Jimena, and read a bit about what they've done, what they do, and what's next for them in…

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November 13, 2019

HULL: An Interview With Xandria Phillips

Someone recently asked me about contemporary queer poets that I would recommend—a considerably hefty question to ask a person, since there are just so many great queer folks truly spearheading poetry scenes everywhere right…

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October 24, 2019

We Both Laughed in Pleasure: An Interview With Zach Ozma & Ellis Martin

The product of years of research and collaboration, We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan is the first ever collection of journal entries from the late trans and gay writer-activist Lou Sullivan. With this collection, editors Zach Ozma and Ellis Martin have curated journal entries that span Sullivan's life, from his midwest youth through to his vibrant adulthood, and eventual passing from AIDS complications, in San Francisco. Still, those seeking a story of queer agony and suffering may be surprised to find that We Both Laughed In Pleasure bears a very different narrative—one of joy and…

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