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April 21, 2026

An Interview with Yongyu Chen, Author of Perennial Counterpart

In Perennial Counterpart, Yongyu Chen’s debut poetry collection, reading, like friendship, is “a way of life.” With an elliptical, contemplative voice and a scholar’s critical disposition, Chen attends to all things that both connect…

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April 14, 2026

Announcing Nightboat’s 2025 Poetry Prize Winners!

Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Nightboat Poetry Prize! We received over 1000 manuscripts to our Poetry Prize this year, submissions which encompassed a full range of aesthetic approaches, structures, and themes. We need no further proof that literature today is thriving, dynamic, socially engaged, and politically aware. It was thrilling to discover new voices. Nightboat Books has chosen two manuscripts as winners of this year’s Nightboat Poetry Prize. These titles will be published in 2028. The winners of the 2025 Nightboat Poetry Prize are: Painstar, Starline by Michelle Alexander Queen of the Little Stinkers by Izzy Casey Congratulations to our winners! Read more about…

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April 6, 2026

An Interview with Soham Patel, Author of The Daughter Industry

Soham Patel's The Daughter Industry is at once an imagined performance, hauntological confession, and polyvocal chorus. The cast of "players" includes Sasmita ("limber, gender-fluid, jesterlike"), Sajani (a "venerated femme mother"), and Sarah ("likely a…

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March 17, 2026

Anne Boyer on Nothing at All

The following is excerpted from Anne Boyer's introduction to Olivia Tapiero's Nothing at All, translated from the French by Kit Schluter. Translated with a fierce precision by Kit Schluter, Olivia Tapiero’s Nothing at All is an urgent, visceral meditation on dissolution. Tapiero’s nothing is hungry, moody. It gives birth, mutes the stars. It begins as a black hole—a cosmic riddle about claustrophobic emptiness. But the black hole has sisters: the difficult body, the sea, oblivion, the erasures of history. “If every galaxy has a black hole at its center,” writes Tapiero, “it is possible that every black hole contains a universe.”…

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February 23, 2026

Join Nightboat in Baltimore for AWP

We’ll be in Baltimore for the 2026 AWP Conference. Please join us at our offsite and conference events and visit our booth #1068 to get your book signed! All offsite events are free and open…

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February 5, 2026

Announcing the 2025 Prose Reading Period Selections

This year we received hundreds of submissions to our Prose Reading Period. We are excited to announce that we are accepting three manuscripts for publication in 2028! Read more about each of the manuscripts below: The First Third by Isis Awad The First Third is written in a sharp-witted, hilarious, sometimes wayward first-person that addresses subjects including abjection, ambiguous intimacies, and its author’s own artistic impulses. From Cairo to the United States, Isis Awad follows shame to find something much brighter, stranger, more revelatory; a “wild, wet, consensual truth” that’s also a riposte to traditional trans narratives, adamant about “unlearning linearity.” Isis…

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January 13, 2026

An Interview with Noa Micaela Fields, Author of E

In E, Noa Micaela Fields takes on Louis Zukofsky’s monumental long poem “A,” placing it in the register of the trans-autobiographical. Working in, and against, the tradition of homophonic translation, Fields transposes Zukosky as…

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November 25, 2025

Nightboat Books Spring & Summer 2026 Catalog

We’re thrilled to share our catalog for our upcoming Spring & Summer 2026 season! Read more about each forthcoming title below. For advance review copy requests, please email: [email protected] ______________________________

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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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October 14, 2025

An Interview with Sophia Dahlin, Author of Glove Money

Sophia Dahlin's new book, Glove Money, out today from Nightboat, is a collection of love poems that originates from the dating show of your own design: "I felt that dating lots of beautiful women…

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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…