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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,…

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March 20, 2019

Invasive species by Marwa Helal reviewed in The New York Times!

We are so thrilled to share that Marwa Helal's fantastic debut, Invasive species was just reviewed by Stephanie Burt in The New York Times Book Review. Pick up a copy of the Sunday times this weekend to see it in print! "Marwa Helal has lived, not always by her own choice, both in Egypt and in America, belonging to both countries and to neither: “I have been missing home my entire life,” she writes. In the same way, Helal’s first and often stellar book belongs to many categories, and to none. It contains prose and verse; polemic and introspection; remixed pop lyrics…

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March 20, 2019

Apply to the 2019 Nightboat Summer Internship!

Applications now open for our summer 2019 Internship Program! The Nightboat Books team is pleased to announce that our applications are open for the Summer 2019 independent publishing internship program! The program is designed to…

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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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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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February 26, 2019

Editorial Selection: active receptions / sodometers by Noah Ross

Congrats to Noah Ross! active receptions / sodometers for publication in Winter 2021 Noah Ross is an East Bay bookseller, the author of Swell (Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, 2019) and a co-editor as baest: a journal of queer forms and…

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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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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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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)