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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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"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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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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  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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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 engage interns in all aspects of literary publishing: editorial, marketing, publicity, online and community engagement, fundraising and development, and other aspects of the publishing industry. This is designed to be a dynamic experience, offering each intern a valuable overview of publishing, with opportunities to focus on assignments that interest them. We offer a modest stipend, free books, mentorship, professional recommendations & a jumping off point…

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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…

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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 Sweeney, Brynne Rebele-Henry, Duriel Harris, Cole Swensen, Paolo Javier, TC Tolbert, Trace Peterson @ Independent Publishing Resource Center (318 SE Main St #155, Portland, OR 97214) 3/29: Friday | 6-10PM | Small Press Distribution Karaoke featuring Laura Moriarty & Kazim Ali @ Kennedy School Gymnasium (5736 N.E. 33rd Ave, Portland, OR, 97211) 3/29: Friday | 8-9:30PM | Offsite Reading w/ Black Sun Lit featuring: Gracie Leavitt, Vi Khi Nao,…

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