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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 chapter titled “Poetry.” He goes to a reading in New York by the poet Ted Berrigan and discovers he doesn’t understand Berrigan’s writing at all. In response to what feels like humiliation, Killian steals first the hors d’oeuvres, then the wine, then “hundreds of pills—probably Ted’s also . . . it was like Valley of the Dolls.” Then the youthful Kevin Killian hits the road…

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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 might be the solution to all my problems" and transitions to that deeply meaningful place where you start to fall in love, "when you are grasping piecemeal the person that’s about to come in and rewrite (and be rewritten by) you." Sophia Dahlin talks about love poetry, the term "sapphic," how to make lesbians angry, and whom she writes for: "Being gay doesn’t make you good,…

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September 23, 2025

An Interview with Edward Salem, Author of Monk Fruit

Monk Fruit, Edward Salem’s debut, is out now from Nightboat—published poignantly, as he remarks, on Refaat al-Areer’s birthday. The poems, written from a Palestinian-American perspective, move between absurdist images, memories, and the noise of the algorithm, confronting nothingness as they do—both political erasure and metaphysical negation.  In our conversation below we discuss doubt, displacement, and how his poetic practice works to “expand the boundaries of what is permissible.” —Dante Silva Dante Silva: “Elsewhere,” the first poem, is about place and displacement. How does the poem collapse the distance between here and elsewhere? What does it confront? Edward Salem: Through the trapdoor of “earlier,”…

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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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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, Brooklyn, NY The gala runs 7pm to 9:30pm and will include a cocktail hour by Singers, snacks by House of the Blue Horse, performance by The Illustrious Pearl, special benefit broadside by Ugly Duckling Presse, raffle of rare Nightboat ephemera and goods from local literary spaces, and soon-to-be-announced readings by Nightboat authors. All gala ticketholders are invited to our afterparty. The afterparty is 9:30pm to 1am, with…

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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…

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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: 11 AM–7 PM Sunday: 12–6 PM (12–2 PM will be suggested masked hours) Buy tickets or register here.   Get Your Book Signed ❥❥❥ ❥ Friday, September 12th at 5pm: Aurora Mattia ❥ Friday, September 12th at 6pm: Mónica de la Torre ❥ Saturday, September 13th at 1pm: Samiya Bashir ❥ Saturday, September 13th at 2pm: Funto Omojola ❥ Saturday, September 13th at 3pm: Bianca Rae Messinger ❥ Sunday, September 14th at 3pm: Kay Gabriel

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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…

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August 19, 2025

Margaret Busby on Jayne Cortez

The following is excerpted from Margaret Busby's introduction to Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez. Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez emanates passion, rhythm, musicality, energy, authenticity, and surrealism. It could hardly be otherwise. From her earliest engagement with creativity, such were the dynamic hallmarks of her work as a poet, performer and activist. Indeed, the multi-faceted career of Jayne Cortez, spanning more than half a century, encompassed an ever-expanding inventiveness, shaped from the start by vibrant childhood experiences. This volume offers readers the unique opportunity to reappraise her work, highlighting how critical her melding of poetry, jazz, and…

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