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November 4, 2015

Nightboat Books in The Bay

Join us for an evening with Nightboat Books featuring readings by West Coast and near-West authors: Orlando White, Gabriella Klein, John Sakkis and Cole Swensen at The Green Arcade Bookstore in San Francisco. When: Tuesday, November 24th…

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August 26, 2015

Book Release Party for “The Pink Trance Notebooks” by Wayne Koestenbaum at The Kitchen

On September 21st, The Kitchen will help us celebrate the release of Wayne Koestenbaum’s new book, The Pink Trance Notebooks, arriving in October. A sequence of 34 intimate epigrammatic assemblages, Pink Trance is the product of the year Koestenbaum stopped keeping the traditional journal he had maintained for three decades and embarked instead on a series of “trance notebooks” as a way to transform his diary into a higher pitch of reckless ceremony, an occasion for intensified, unmoored consciousness. To mark the book’s publication, and to manifest the spirit of linguistic improvisation, Koestenbaum will perform piano miniatures (Scriabin, Chopin, Fauré, Milhaud, Poulenc) while incanting spontaneous Sprechstimme-style soliloquies. To frame…

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March 15, 2015

Jill Magi Curates Event in New York

Collection Processed by Poets: Five Writers Respond to the Wagner Labor Archive with Robert Fitterman, Paolo Javier, Maryam Parhizkar, Eléna Rivera & Johannah Rodgers Tamiment Library in Bobst Library, 10th Floor, 70 Washington Square South, New York March 25, 6:00-7:30…

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September 24, 2014

Mature Themes by Andrew Durbin Book Launch on 9/26 at the New Museum

Join this Friday, September 26th, at 7pm, to celebrate the publication of Mature Themes by Andrew Durbin at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York City. For the release of his new book, Mature Themes (Nightboat Books, 2014), writer Andrew Durbin has curated an evening of readings and performance with artists Harry Burke, Juliana Huxtable, and Jacolby Satterwhite. Artist Jesse Darling will also premiere a new short film. A hybrid text of poetry and art criticism, Durbin’s Mature Themes is a memoir focused on the subject of disingenuity. The book explores what constitutes personal experience, both online and IRL (“In Real Life”), when to “go deep” and…

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February 13, 2014

Nightboat Books at the AWP Conference in Seattle, February 27 to March 1

Visit our table in the Bookfair and join us at two offsite events: On Thursday, February 27, from 6:30-8:00pm, we'll launch our Spring 2014 poetry titles. Join us at Arundel Books, 214 1st Avenue South, in…

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December 1, 2013

Troubling the Line Celebration in New York City

On Wednesday, December 11, at 8pm, at The Poetry Project in New York City, join Samuel Ace, Ching-in Chen, CA Conrad, Joy Ladin, Dawn Lundy Martin, Tim Trace Peterson, Jordan Rice, Trish Salah, TC Tolbert, Zoe Tuck, Emerson Whitney, and surprise guests to celebrate the publication of Troubling the Line, the first-ever anthology of poetry by trans and genderqueer writers. More info here.

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September 11, 2012

Etel Adnan Reading and Exhibition in New York

Please join us on Wednesday, September 19th, at 7pm at Callicoon Fine Arts, 124 Forsyth Street, Lower East Side (NYC) for a poetry reading to celebrate the publication of Adnan’s Sea and Fog. Beirut-based writer and critic Kaelen…

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April 18, 2012

For Stacy Doris – a day in celebration of the poet’s life and work

Please join us in celebrating the life and work of Stacy Doris. Stacy Doris, internationally acclaimed poet, translator, and teacher died in San Francisco, California, on January 31, 2012. She was 49 years old. Doris was an Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, where she taught since 2002. She was the author of six books of poetry in English, and three books in French (one of poetry and two fictionalized memoirs). She had battled cancer (eventually diagnosed as leiomyosarcoma) for the past three years. Her books of poetry include The Cake Part (Publication Studio,…