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September 6, 2018

Some Beheadings by Aditi Machado Wins Believer Poetry Award!

Aditi Machado's debut collection Some Beheadings just won the 6th annual Believer Poetry Award! Here's what the judges had to say about the book: Some Beheadings is an apt title for Aditi Machado’s daring debut collection. Her work…

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February 15, 2018

Nightboat AWP Schedule of Events 2018

It's going to be an exciting, busy time at AWP in Tampa, FL for us this year. We're looking forward to the soft launch of NEPANTLA: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color ed. Christopher Soto, the release of Some Animal by Ely Shipley & Suelo Tide Cement by Christina Wega-Westhoff, as well as readings from some of our fabulous 2017 authors including Duriel E. Harris, Samiya Bashir, Cole Swensen & even rockstar Vi Khi Nao from 2016. Schedule of Events: Nepantla Soft Launch at the AWP Queer Mixer! Hosted by LGBTQ Writers Caucus & Lambda Literary Thursday, March 8th, 7:30-9PM Waterside Grill—Tampa Marriott Waterside 700 South Florida…

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April 22, 2016

Nathanaël Wins Publishing Triangle Award for Trans & Gender Variant Literature

Congratulations to Nathanäel, winner of the first ever Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. For the first time, The Publishing Triangle presented the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. Carol Rosenfeld, the chair…

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March 22, 2016

Nightboat Offsite Readings at AWP

It's that time again... AWP, the behemoth of poetry conferences, is nearly upon us. This year poets descend on Los Angeles. Prepare yourselves... and mark your calendars for two exciting Nightboat Books off-site events. You may feel compelled to split your body in twain to experience both of these events, because they are happening at virtually the same time, BUT we must advise against that. Choose wisely! Friday April 1st @ 7pm Nightboat, Wonder, Krupskaya @ The Poetic Research Bureau A reading at the Poetic Research Bureau featuring three presses: Nightboat Books, Krupskaya and Wonder. With: Kate Durbin, Brenda Iijima, Syd Staiti, Orlando White, Mathew Timmons, Melissa…

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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,…