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August 5, 2025

Crocosmia: US Tour

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…

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August 5, 2025

An Interview with Miranda Mellis, Author of Crocosmia

Miranda Mellis' Crocosmia, out now from Nightboat, starts at the "end," a concept she troubles (the "end," of course, continues to happen). The novel recounts the protagonist's childhood during the “great turning," a series of radical social and ecological changes brought about, for the most part, by her mother's "psychokinetic animation" art. It imagines that change through the institutions of communal life—libraries, language, etc.—and the relationships, real, completely reimagined, between such institutions and individuals. "The real would emerge from the fictive, as it always did," Mellis writes in our conversation below. "The fictive would emerge from the real, as it…

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July 22, 2025

Amy Scholder on David Wojnarowicz

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…

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July 9, 2025

Remembering Fanny Howe (1940-2025)

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 Got Broken (2005) and a collection of five of her novels, Radical Love (2006). She also wrote numerous books of poetry, including One Crossed Out, Gone, Second Childhood, and Selected Poems. Her essay collections include The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life and The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation. She was the recipient of the 2009 Lilly Prize for Poetry and a professor…

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July 1, 2025

An Interview with Laura Moriarty, Author of Which Walks

Laura Moriarty’s Which Walks, out now from Nightboat, confronts aging and its discontents with the old adage, “If you leave off you are lost.” Walking, and “witchiness” (“I’ve hosted a few covens,” she says…

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June 24, 2025

An Interview with Aurora Mattia, Author of Unsex Me Here

If Aurora Mattia’s first book, The Fifth Wound, is an autobiography as vision, her latest work Unsex Me Here—which came out this past April—offers itself as an autobiography of vision. Seductive, spiritual, and prismatic, Unsex Me Here is a mythology of Mattia’s writing life, spanning over a decade. Peacock feathers, angels, opalescent substances, skin; Mattia’s language of symbolism is tight with desire, comprising a singularly ecstatic vision that composes transfemme pasts into a fantasia of futurity. “Transition is not a transformation but a refraction.” Mattia notes in our conversation below. “It’s a question of the kaleidoscope of the self." —Daye Jung Daye Jung:…

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June 17, 2025

An Interview with Aaron Shurin, Author of Elixir

Aaron Shurin's Elixir: New and Selected Poems, out now from Nightboat—and which follows Unbound and The Blue Absolute—collects his work at the forefront of publishing, politics, and poetics. From the Gay Poets collective and…

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June 4, 2025

Announcing the 2025 Nightboat Prose Reading Period!

We’re thrilled to announce that Nightboat Books is considering prose manuscripts from June 9th-August 1st, 2025. Please familiarize yourself with our editorial affinities by checking out our catalogue. Buy our books! Borrow them from the library! Read them! We’re looking for innovative prose manuscripts of formally experimental fiction and/or nonfiction. We welcome prose translations, international anglophone writing, and multi-lingual texts. We’re most excited about projects that disrupt our expectations of what prose can do. No strict forms. No limits. Your manuscript might include poetry and poetic sections, but we’re not considering full-length poetry collections at this time. We’re looking for…

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May 13, 2025

An Interview with Samiya Bashir, Author of I Hope This Helps

Eight years after Field Theories—Samiya Bashir’s third book, which won the Oregon Book Award for Poetry—comes I Hope This Helps, out now from Nightboat. Bashir’s work, both individual and collaborative, has been published, printed,…

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May 9, 2025

This Isn’t New

Dear friends, As many of you know, last Friday Nightboat and many literary and arts organizations received news that our 2025 grant from the NEA had been terminated. At the moment, we are uncertain if we will receive the remaining third of our $30,000 grant, money which would go directly to supporting our artists, staff, and editors. But, after 20 years of publishing queer, experimental, and transgressive literature in America, we aren’t surprised—because this isn’t new. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ These voices from the past remind us: We must fight our numerous detractors, who will try to block our visions as well as the world’s visions of us. Nor…

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May 6, 2025

An Interview with Rosie Stockton, Author of Fuel

Roșie Stockton's Fuel, out now from Nightboat, works towards and against calamity, both personal and political. In poems shaped by psychoanalytic thought, the pandemic, and petrocapitalism—and punctured by The End—Stockton asks how we might "find…

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April 28, 2025

An Interview with Jzl Jmz, Author of Local Woman

Jzl Jmz's Local Woman, out now from Nightboat, has been described as "lush, nourishing, [and] celestial." I would add that it's politically potent (the poems comes form "an anarchist jurisdiction"), and incredibly seductive. In the thick of it is the titular “Local Woman,” an amalgamation of women Jmz embodies. Hers is a womanhood contoured by acrylics, hormones, and the political anxieties of “Amerikka,” in spite of which—or perhaps because of which—she chooses “to see the beauty.” In our conversation below we discuss Local Woman, it's origins, and language—of which Jmz writes, "My language is church meets theater meets Tumblr meets porn category." —Dante…