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November 4, 2025

Kay Gabriel on Kevin Killian

The following is excerpted from Kay Gabriel's introduction to Kevin Killian's Padam Padam: Collected Poems, edited by Jason Morris and Evan Kennedy. Here’s a story from Kevin Killian’s memoir Bedrooms Have Windows, in a…

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October 21, 2025

An Interview with Charlie Porter, Author of Nova Scotia House

Nova Scotia House, Charlie Porter's first novel, is at once a political manifesto, a portal into the (not so distant) past, and the profoundly moving portrait of a relationship, and its aftermath.  In short—Johnny is 19 when he meets Jerry, 45. He soon moves into Jerry’s flat, 1 Nova Scotia House. “He said he would understand if it was too much for me, that I could leave him, that I was young, I should be living, I said to him, I am living.” Johnny stays, after Jerry’s AIDS-related death, at the same address. The flat becomes both a sanctuary and a…

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September 30, 2025

An Interview with Kay Gabriel, Author of Perverts

What makes a pervert? What unmakes one? "I want people to notice the libidinal charge of the term," Kay Gabriel writes. "Which, of course, means that it’s fun to say, whichever side of the disgust you land on." Her book Perverts, out now from Nightboat, is a long poem that insists on the epic while satirizing its pretensions. The perverts here, somewhat saintlike, somewhat sedated, have dreams full of “waste and love,” debt and liberation, all amidst the anti-trans panic. Gabriel, “the heiress of all those who, since Rimbaud, sought the good life” (McKenzie Wark), collages their dreams with our…

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September 19, 2025

Nightboat’s 2025 Donor Newsletter

Nightboat thanks all of our supporters for making twenty years of publishing possible. Read more about our twentieth anniversary celebrations, editorial updates, and future plans in Nightboat's 2025 Donor Newsletter here!

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Programs |
September 17, 2025

Nightboat’s First Annual Gala

Join us in celebrating our first ever gala on Wednesday, October 22nd, 7pm to 1am. Gala 7pm to 9:30pm | Afterparty 9:30pm to 1am Wednesday, October 22nd Sugar Hill Restaurant & Supper Club | 217 Nostrand Ave,…

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September 16, 2025

The Nightmare Sequence: Excerpt

The following images are illustrated by Safdar Ahmed, and appear in The Nightmare Sequence, now out from Nightboat Books—a collaboration between Ahmed and the poet Omar Sakr, bearing witness to the genocide in Gaza. "'Genocide Culture' is a series of images that attempts to highlight what our leaders cannot be brought to admit: that a ‘close friend’ of Australia, a mutual ally of the United States and a key strategic partner in global security and military technology is committing the most abhorrent crime humanity is capable of. It will take a serious moral reckoning and reconciliation with Australia’s own (frequently suppressed) colonial…

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September 8, 2025

Nightboat at New York Art Book Fair

Visit Nightboat at booth #M9 at the 2025 New York Art Book Fair! Details: Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair September 11-14 Location: Nightboat Booth #M9 MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens, NY 11101 Dates and Times: Opening Night: 7–10 PM Friday + Saturday:…

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August 25, 2025

Remembering Stéphane Bouquet (1967-2025)

Nightboat mourns the passing of the French poet, translator, critic, and choreographer Stéphane Bouquet, who died in Paris on August 24, 2025, at the age of 57. He was the author of nine collections of poetry, as well as several essays on poetry. He has published books on filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein and Gus Van Sant, as well as screenplays for feature films, non-fiction films, and short films, and has translated poets including Paul Blackburn, James Schuyler, and Peter Gizzi into French. Nightboat published two of Bouquet's books in English, both translated by Lindsay Turner, The Next Loves (2019)…

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