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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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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 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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