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March 12, 2024

An Interview with Laura Henriksen, Author of Laura’s Desires

"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…

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March 4, 2024

Azad Ashim Sharma Tour to Celebrate Boiled Owls

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 Jason Crawford 04/02/24 UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, STORRS, 3.45 PM Asian American Culture Center, University of Connecticut 04/09/24 BUFFALO, NY, 6-8 PM Fitz Books & Waffles. In conversation with Devonya Havis 04/11/24 CHICAGO, 7 PM Seminary Coop Bookstore. In conversation with Edgar Garcia 04/13/24 BROOKLYN, NYC, 7 PM Black Spring Books, with Jimin Seo, Jay Gao, Megan Pinto, 04/19/24 WASHINGTON DC, TIME - TBT George Washington University Bookstore. In conversation with Jonathan Hsy 04/23/24 WILLIAMSBURG, 5-7 PM Comey…

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February 27, 2024

An Interview with Nora Treatbaby, Author of Our Air

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…

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February 13, 2024

An Interview with Hannah Levene, author of Greasepaint

Below is a conversation between Dante Silva and Hannah Levene to discuss Hannah's dazzling debut novel Greasepaint. Greasepaint is the portrait of a community staged in a never ending Friday night around the bar, "it’s always Friday and it’s always the bar and it’s always the 1950s, wherever and whenever we are." Inspired by Hannah's research in the lesbian archive and Yiddish literature—she teases something butch from something Yiddish, or something Yiddish from something butch, understanding that the two were often in coalition: "Maybe I have written a very Jewish book that is actually a very butch book or maybe…

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January 24, 2024

Nightboat at AWP 2024

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…

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December 5, 2023

An Interview With Benjamin Friedlander, Co-Editor of Nice: Collected Poems

David Melnick (1938-2022) is remembered as one of the outstanding provocateurs of twentieth-century poetry, a poet “suffocated by meaning,” one who read in glittering platform heels with a glass of cabernet. While Melnick was infamously a recluse, having published only one interview before his passing, he leaves behind the legacy of a life lived with various poetic, communal, and political intimacies. Nice: Collected Poems — published today by Nightboat — is the first comprehensive collection of his work. Below is a conversation with Benjamin Friedlander, who — along with Alison Fraser, Jeffrey Jullich, and Ron Silliman — edited the poems…

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November 27, 2023

Announcing the 2023 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 two manuscripts for publication! Read more about each of the manuscripts below: Small Sargassum…

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November 24, 2023

International Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine

On Saturday, November 25th, we gather writers from around the world for a 24-hour reading in support of Palestinian writers, Palestinian voices in diaspora, and their allies. We gather in the spirit of fundamental respect for life and liberation. As individual poets, artists & writers, and representatives of independent arts organizations, we call for an end to all ongoing genocidal aggression globally. We condemn the collective punishment of Palestinians, we condemn actions that perpetuate cycles of violence, and we call for a global commitment to protect freedom of expression and critical dissent. International Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity…

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November 21, 2023

An Interview With Chris Daniels, Translator of One Impossible Step

"My most childish dream is to be translated," wrote Orides Fontela (b. 1940 in São João da Boa Vista, in the interior of São Paulo). "It's completely silly, of course. But it must be…

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November 15, 2023

Nightboat signs on to PACBI

Joining with many other poetry and arts organizations, Nightboat Books is signing on to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). This means we will not collaborate with Israeli academic and cultural institutions that are complicit in maintaining the Israeli occupation and denial of basic Palestinian rights. It does not change our relationship with individual writers or readers.

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November 7, 2023

An Interview with Jasmine Gibson, Author of A Beauty Has Come

Jasmine Gibson and I first met and collaborated on a performance project in 2019. Since then, we’ve read together, celebrated and dreamed together. From stages to zoom rooms, I’ve had the honor of experiencing…

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November 2, 2023

An Interview With Jon L Pitt, Translator of Tree Spirits Grass Spirits

Hirmoi Ito is one of Japan’s most prominent contemporary writers, and has been since her debut, Kusaki no sora (translated into English as The Plants and the Sky). Her work has always shared an affinity with the plant world — in a previous interview, she’s stated that plants “teach us how to think differently about our own existences, our own belonging and our own mortality.” This collection — Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, out now from Nightboat — does just that. Below is a conversation with her translator, Jon L Pitt, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at UC Irvine. We…