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April 2, 2024

An Interview with Joyelle McSweeney, Author of Death Styles

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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March 27, 2024

An Interview with Azad Ashim Sharma, Author of Boiled Owls

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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March 15, 2024

Announcing Nightboat’s 2023 Poetry Prize Winners!

Announcing the Winners of the Nightboat Poetry Prize! This year we received over 950 submissions to our annual poetry prize. We are excited to announce that the Nightboat editors have chosen three manuscripts for publication in 2025 and 2026! Read more about…

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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 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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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…

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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 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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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,…

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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 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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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…

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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 Mountains/Pequeñas montañas de sargazo by Antonio Ochoa Small Sargassum Mountains/Pequeñas montañas de sargazo is a book of trajectories, of connections, of isomorphisms, of distances. This book is also a hybrid, where the borders between poetry and prose, reading and writing, Spanish and English, experience and memory are eroded like a shoreline. Antonio Ochoa was born in Mexico City. He has published two books of poems (pulsos and El toro de Hiroshima).…

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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…

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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 nice to be international." Below is a conversation with Chris Daniels, who compiled and translated the poems in One Impossible Step — the first ever collection of Orides Fontela’s poetry to appear in English, out today from Nightboat. Of the collection, he states he “tried to show the way Orides Fontela cognized life, and to give the reader an idea of what she was like as…