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Dances of Time and Tenderness—by Julian Carter, out today from Nightboat—is concerned with what Carter terms "the trans promise: what we do with our bodies changes worlds." It's an amalgamation of sex, sainthood, Dolores Park, archives of Peter Hujar’s pornography, politics that are affective, ancestral; all with a proximity that's personal, intimate. The connections become chains which become “an inter-generational praxis of intimacy and care,” as Juana María Rodríguez writes of Carter’s work. In our conversation below we discuss chains and choreographies, both real and almost real. "Ideally," Carter writes, "you're breathing hard." —Dante Silva Dante Silva: I'm drawn to the word "dances,"…

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Lonespeech is a writing through (or into, around, against) the correspondence between poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, the two of whom had an infamously fraught relationship to language. Jäderlund takes this correspondence and turns it into something else altogether; she finds in the letters a strange, sparse, pastoral lyric that challenges our assumptions about what it means to come into contact with another person.  Below is a conversation with Jäderlund’s translator, Johannes Göransson, wherein we discuss the language of Bachmann, Celan, and Jäderlund; its failures, its historical undercurrents, its discontents. Look to Lonespeech—out today from Nightboat—for more of language's "heightened…

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There's an arbitrary, arguably American distinction between style and survival. Joyelle McSweeney's Death Styles—out today from Nightboat—makes the argument that the two are inseparable. The poems craft a portrait of loss and livelihood, of "audacity and absurdity"…

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Boiled Owls—by Azad Ashim Sharma, out today from Nightboat Books—interrogates our narratives of addiction and recovery, as it imagines other possibilities for life and collectivity. What would it mean to consider addiction as part of capital's promise? How do you craft a narcopoetics? In my conversation with Sharma we look at language, political consciousness, and what Bhanu Kapil calls our "cadences of survival." —Dante Silva Dante Silva: You describe recovery with the word stuplimity, which refers to a sense of “overwhelming excitement and stultifying boredom emanating from the same object.” Could you say more? What have you found in the regular,…

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"What do you want?" is a difficult question to answer. Laura's Desires—by Laura Henriksen, out today from Nightboat—makes a rigorous attempt. What comes forth is an appropriately playful, phantasmagoric set of poems about our individual and collective desires, what makes and unmakes them, where they lead us. It's all intimate and honest and incredibly hot. In our conversation below we discuss desire, its contents and discontents, as well as doubt and Nan Goldin and tennis—the latter of which Laura is decidedly against. —Dante Silva Dante Silva: I’m curious about the expansive, rigorous citational practice here—the flirtation of criticism and a lived, sustained…

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03/28/24 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 5-6.30 PM Memorial Union Room. 242. With Jacqueline Balderrama, Cecilia Savala, and in conversation with Susan Nguyen 03/30/24 BROOKLYN, NYC, 7-9 PM Word Is Change Bookstore. With Kevin Holden, Emily Lee Luan and…

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Adelita Husni-Bey describes Our Air—out today from Nightboat—as "Delphic, ecstatic, erotic, mystical, riotous, erudite." I would only add the word hilarious. Nora Treatbaby is our lodestar in a strange, hellish landscape, leading us heavenwards to what she calls "a revolution which doesn't feel available to us at the moment." This is a scream at the Apple Store; a love letter to the world; "all vibes." —Dante Silva Dante Silva: I’m interested in all the possibilities, real and imagined, for life and matter. It seems you share this interest. Our Air is, in my reading, in conversation with science fictions, the more than human,…

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We’re delighted to announce that we will be returning to AWP this February! We hope you will join us at these offsite events or visit our booth #1516 to get your book signed during one of our signings! ***   Celebrate Nightboat at Nimble Brewing Thursday, February 8th At Nimble Brewing 1735 Oak St, Kansas City, MO 64108 5pm-7pm Readings by: Azad Sharma Emily Lee Luan Janice Sapigao Johannes Goransson Jon L Pitt Kevin Holden   Poets Party with Nightboat at Missie B's  Friday, February 9th At Missie B’s 805 W 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111 5pm-7pm Readings by: Andrea Abi-Karam Brian Teare Dior J. Stephens Gillian Conoley Laura Henriksen Nora Treatbaby Ronaldo V. Wilson Rosie Stockton Tiff Dressen Wo Chann   Author Singings at Nightboat Books Booth #1516 Thursday: 11-12 Dior J.…

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