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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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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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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…

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Celebrate Miranda Mellis' Crocosmia at the following locations this fall: San Francisco, CA 9/3: City Lights Bookstore with Eleni Stecopoulos | 7PM Brooklyn, NY 9/22: Wendy’s Subway with Matt Longabucco | 7PM Boston, MA 9/24: Porter Square Books with Kythe Heller | 7PM Turner Falls, MA 9/26: Unnameable Books with Andrea Lawlor | 7PM Olympia, WA 10/17: Browser’s with Anne de Marcken | 6PM Seattle, WA 10/20: Third Place Books with Robert Glück | 7PM San Diego, CA 10/29: UCSD New Writing Series with Anna Joy Springer | 5PM Los Angeles, CA 10/30: Book Soup with Sarah Labrie Ann Arbor, MI 11/7: Literati Bookstore with Christine Hume  Charlottesville, VA 11/8: New Dominion Bookshop…

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The following is Amy Scholder's Editorial Note that appears in the 2025 reissue of David Wojnarowicz's Memories That Smell Like Gasoline, out now from Nightboat. When I was getting the first edition of Memories That Smell Like Gasoline ready for press in 1992, David was dying. It was our first and last book to prepare together. The other books by David that I published were posthumous. We decided to work on this one first because it felt so close to the reckonings we were having at the time. How memory has a smell and touch and feel. How it seems…

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Nightboat Books mourns the passing of Fanny Howe, who died on July 9, 2025, at the age of 84. Howe authored our first and third titles: the essay Lives of a Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something…

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