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June 7, 2019

Ciao, For Now, to Our Spring 2019 Interns!

As the spring season approaches the balmy threshold of summer, we're saying so long to our fabulous, wonderful, super-awesome spring interns, Caelan and Alma. Read a little about who they are, what they did with us, and where they're headed as, with a tender smooch, we send them off with newly groomed wings through the musty gales of the anthropocene!   Caelan Ernest   Where did you grow up and how did you find your way to NYC? Before moving to Brooklyn in 2017, I lived in Rhode Island my whole life. I grew up in a small beachy town called Westerly. When I…

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May 7, 2019

“What I Knew”: An Interview With Eleni Sikelianos

Eleni Sikelianos, prolific poet, professor, and author of the new antigrowth epic, What I Knew, was gracious enough to talk with me about the latter's themes, her travels, the uncapturable, and of course (sorry, not sorry) astrology. This week, I'm sitting with and stirred by Eleni's assertion, "Poetry holds the place of ferality in language," a notion that saturates the poetics in What I Knew. Her prose here proves that potency can carry over in the right hands.    -June Shanahan   June Shanahan: What I Knew is so very located, in that so many of the poem’s sentiments are rooted in, or at least paired…

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April 30, 2019

Chad Sweeney On “Little Million Doors”

Earlier this month, Publishers Weekly said of Chad Sweeney's stirring new book, Little Million Doors: "Sweeney masters the art of understatement in this book of forthright and delicate poems...What knowledge we gain, the poet hazards, might be found through absence and negation." rob mclennan adds, "Meaning becomes, if not fluid, something that shimmers, concurrently in multiple, and even contradictory directions. There is something radiant that emerges from his lines . . . LITTLE MILLION DOORS is a poem grand in scale, composed to the smallest and most immediate moments of grief, thinking and memory." Here, Sweeney himself reflects on the construction,…

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April 26, 2019

“Pet Sounds”: An Interview With Stephanie Young

"I wanted to write a love poem that didn’t leave out all the problems, that inhabited this form of address to do other things at the same time: music criticism, historical analysis, thinking about gender and labor and real estate," says Stephanie Young, author of the new book-length poem Pet Sounds. Ahead of her NYC book launch, Stephanie and I got to talking on, among other things, the long-form poem and records that tie themselves to relationships.  -- June Shanahan     June Shanahan: In reading through your book, I kept the title in the back of my mind in order to kind of…

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April 11, 2019

Samiya Bashir Wins Rome Prize!

Samiya Bashir, author of Field Theories Awarded prestigious 2019–20 Rome Prize! The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2019–20 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, Rome Prizes were awarded to thirty American and six Italian artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board for a period of five to eleven months at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome. Congrats Samiya!

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April 7, 2019

Printed Matter’s LA Art Bookfair April 11-14!

  We're tabling at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair April 11th-14th! Come visit us at table H03! https://laabf2019.printedmatterartbookfairs.org Our reading is the closing Sunday event: Nightboat Books reading, with Tisa Bryant, Jos Charles, Carlos Lara, Eleni Sikelianos, Chad Sweeney, and Stephanie Young Where & when: Sunday, April 14, 5-6pm, The Classroom, LA ART BOOK FAIR at MoCA Geffen. Reader Bios: Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence. Chad Sweeney's new book, A Little Million Doors, won the Nightboat Poetry Prize. Jos Charles is the author of feeld, 2017 National Poetry Series and longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry. Carlos Lara won the 2018 Nightboat Poetry Prize for Like Bismuth…

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