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June 10, 2020

Echo 2

An echo is a sound wave a surface reflects. A voice ringing off the walls of a canyon or a cave. How might sound, language, sun, create vibrations similar to physical proximity? “I love…

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June 6, 2020

Four Lammy Winners!

Thank you Lambda Literary for honoring four of our titles with 2020 Lambda Literary Awards! We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan edited by Ellis Martin & Zach Ozma is the winner in the Transgender Nonfiction Category! SLINGSHOT by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is the winner in the Gay Poetry Category! HULL by Xandria Phillips is the winner in the Transgender Poetry Category! Pet Sounds by Stephanie Young is the winner in the Bisexual Poetry Category!

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June 3, 2020

In Solidarity with Black Lives Matter

The Nightboat staff would like to take a moment to express our solidarity with the Black community & the Black Lives Matter movement. We understand the ways in which neutrality & silence are weaponized,…

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May 19, 2020

Time is the International Winner of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize!

Congratulations to Etel Adnan & Sarah Riggs! Time is the International winner of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize, receiving $65,000 in prize money. From the Judges' Citation from the shortlist announcement: “‘I say that I’m not afraid/of dying because I haven’t/ yet had the experience/ of death’ writes Etel Adnan in the opening poem to Time. What is astonishing here is how she manages to give weariness its own relentless energy. We are pulled quickly through this collection – each poem, only a breath, a small measure of the time that Adnan is counting. Every breath is considered, measured, observant – perceiving…

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May 7, 2020

Echo 1

We at Nightboat find ourselves reflecting on how in times of crisis, global or not, we turn to the literature of disaster and the disenfranchised. In this language we also find notes of celebration,…

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May 6, 2020

Xandria Phillips wins the Judith A. Markowitz Award from Lambda!

Xandria Phillips wins the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers from Lambda! The award recognizes LGBTQ-identified writers whose work demonstrates their strong potential for promising careers. Two Emerging LGBTQ Writer prizes are awarded annually. Click here to read Xandria's five question interview with Lambda! Congratulations, Xandria!

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April 29, 2020

people in space by Aldrin Valdez

I’ve been making these small works on paper. A simple way to describe what they depict is: people in space. In each drawing/painting, a figure exists in an ambiguous setting—or perhaps: exists ambiguously. Are…

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April 15, 2020

Brian Teare receives a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship!

Brian Teare, author of Doomstead Days, has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for the year of 2020! From Brian's fellowship bio: Brian Teare's most recent book, Doomstead Days, offers a series of walking meditations on our complicity with climate crisis. His poems document the interdependence of human and environmental health and use fieldwork and archival research to situate chronic illness within bioregional and industrial histories. As the New York Times noted, “Teare's voices let us weigh the insoluble questions of how to live as an ethical being in the face of violence and environmental collapse.” More can be found on the Guggenheim website. Congratulations, Brian!

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April 7, 2020

Time Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize!

Congratulations to Etel Adnan & Sarah Riggs! Time is shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. From the announcement: "Judges Paula Meehan (Ireland), Kei Miller (Jamaica/UK), and Hoa Nguyen (Canada) each read 572 books of poetry,…

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April 3, 2020

An Update from Us

Dear Friends, We hope this finds you with warmth and care. We have a few updates we’d like to share. On Monday, March 30th, we collaborated with The Anchoress Syndicate on a live reading of The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions. With over 80 listeners tuning in at any given time from around the world, the love was tangible and felt. We are still radiating from it.  This week we began rolling out Nightboat Illuminations: our new Instagram series of intimate readings, performances, portraits, correspondences, blog posts, and more from our authors. We landed upon the name “Illuminations” for a couple…

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April 1, 2020

Illuminations Schedule

We’re excited to announce Nightboat Illuminations: a new series of intimate readings, performances, portraits, correspondences and more from our authors! Here's the schedule for Week 1:                 Here's week 2: Here's week 3: Here's week 4: Here's week 5: Here's week…

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March 31, 2020

Tender Points: An Interview with Amy Berkowitz

Amy Berkowitz’s Tender Points reads as a lyrical essay, with fragments of personal anecdotes, philosophical thought, excerpts from online forums, and as a slow unfolding and investigation into two interconnected traumas. Berkowitz’s prose and its form evoke the discrepancies and uncertainties of living with an “invisible” and “mysterious” illness. Probing the realities of such an existence, a simultaneous tenderness and toughness starts to manifest through the book. The intimacy of the reader’s experience is incomparable: beginning with Diane di Prima’s “I have just realized that the stakes are myself,” the reader realizes that the process of self-acceptance and living with…

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