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May 1, 2019

“Action in the Orchards”: Fred Schmalz’s Ekphrasis of Proximity

On his new collection, Action in the Orchards, Fred Schmalz remarks, "...I have resisted the tag 'ekphrastic' to describe the poems in the book. Sure, encounters with artworks (sometimes overt, sometimes oblique) happen. But they…

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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 30, 2019

jzl jmz’s “The Black Condition ft. Narcissus” Playlist

One of our favorite books this spring at Nightboat is jzl jmz's The Black Condition ft. Narcissus. By way of the classically fatal beauty Narcissus, jayy has fashioned a collection of poems that is…

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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 22, 2019

Call for Submissions: Radical Trans Poetics Anthology

WHAT: Nightboat Books is excited to invite submissions for an anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, co-edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel. By “radical” we mean to suggest two overlapping aims, both political and aesthetic. Politically,…

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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 9, 2019

“Doomstead Days”: An Interview with Brian Teare

Brian Teare's new collection Doomstead Days figures itself an oblong baritone shape, a cargo ship of poems and various other fuels barrelling towards us. Opening with the clamor of a container…

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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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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…

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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 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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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…

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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 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,…