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September 5, 2019

Aditi Machado’s book Emporium (Nightboat Books, 2020) has won the JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD, which is given to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. Offered since 1954 and endowed in…

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August 5, 2019

Summer Reading List: Borders

  With mass ICE raids of major U.S. cities promised by an ever-intensifying racist administration, major protests at the nations detention centers after reports of astonishingly inhumane conditions and newly devised asylum restrictions, along with the recent election of Brexit-champion Boris Johnson of the British Conservative party to prime minister of the U.K., this summer has been one fraught with tension along global borders. While we should always be reading up on these particular issues, informing ourselves and each other of their components and consequences, poetry (and literature writ large) maintains its socio-political relevance in doing that very work. What's…

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July 11, 2019

Sarah Riggs: Five Questions on Etel Adnan’s TIME

This month here at Nightboat we have the pleasure of releasing a new English translation of the beloved and inimitable painter-poet-philosopher Etel Adnan's "TIME," orginally written in the French. Born of a series of postcard correspondences between Adnan and her friend, Tunisian artist Khaled Najar, "TIME" enfolds forms both familiar and new as Adnan poetically navigates the pain, disorientation, and sublime awareness of being in time—a thing illegible without place and body—with "exuberance and clarity." I quote the latter from translator Sarah Riggs, who I was lucky enough to ask a few questions of regarding her translative process, her…

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July 10, 2019

Prose Reading Period

PROSE READING PERIOD  We're thrilled to announce that Nightboat Books is considering prose manuscripts from July 1-Aug 15 2019. Please familiarize yourself with Nightboat Books’s editorial affinities by checking out our titles. Buy our books! Read…

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July 2, 2019

The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions featured in Interview Magazine!

Ernest Macias over at Interview Magazine chatted with Ned Asta, Morgan Bassichis, and Tourmaline in an article featuring The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions! Here's an excerpt of their conversation: ERNEST MACIAS:  All three of you have had different interactions and experiences with the book, but let’s start with how you all met. NED ASTA: I got a phone call from Morgan, about two years ago. They had the book and were very darling, even though they were a total stranger. MORGAN BASSICHIS: I think you were planning some big party and making a bunch of bouquets of flowers. I remember you said to…

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June 17, 2019

The Faggots & Their Friends: 40 Years Later

In 1977, the radical sounds of a commune near Ithaca, NY resounded from within a little red book: "...there are two important things to remember about the coming revolutions. The first is that we will get our asses kicked. The second is that we will win."  The zealous words of Larry Mitchell hovered there above hands knotted in solidarity and celebration, an illustration by fellow Lavender Hill Commune member Ned Asta. The two collaborated to create what would become one of the most seminal queer texts in small press, The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions. This quietly infamous…

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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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