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February 22, 2022

A Conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum, author of Ultramarine, and Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala

Happy publication day to Wayne Koestenbaum's Ultramarine, the closing title in the acclaimed trance poem trilogy (the previous two collections include The Pink Trance Notebooks and Camp Marmalade). To celebrate this milestone Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala speaks to Wayne about desire, void, dreams, and cultivating a steady kind of pleasure in his new book. Take a look below! 15346

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February 18, 2022

Mónica de la Torre is the recipient of two major awards!

We're excited to share that Mónica de la Torre is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award and the C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts! We're thrilled to be the publisher of her most recent collection, Repetition Nineteen, a genre-defying project that focuses on translation as displacement, mediation, and a form of code-switching. The C.D. Wright Award is given "to a poet over the age of 50 whose work exemplifies Wright's vibrant lyricism, seriousness, and striking originality." —Foundation for Contemporary Arts For her Creative Capital Award, she'll be working on an ambitious "book-length literary hybrid whose…

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December 21, 2021

Announcing Nightboat New Year’s Promotions!

Happy New Year from Nightboat Books! In 2021, we debuted our subscription program–offering subscribers our complete annual catalog at a 25% discount–and were delighted by the response. For 2022, we’re excited to share that we’ll be revamping our subscription program, and introducing a few new other ways to stay up-to-date with the Nightboat catalog!  Meanwhile, if you’re still looking for a last-minute holiday gift, or if you’re not sure where to start exploring the Nightboat catalog, keep reading for our staff-curated reading lists, organized by interest. Nightboat subscriptions are a perfect gift for the lover of provocative and risk-taking literature in your…

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December 17, 2021

Remembering Red Jordan Arobateau (1943–2021)

Red Jordan Arobateau died on Thursday, November 25, in San Francisco. The painter and literary sensation was seventy-eight years old. He left behind an enormous, unparalleled body of work in fiction, erotica, life writing,…

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November 18, 2021

Remembering Etel Adnan (1925-2021)

Nightboat Books mourns the loss of the luminous poet and painter, Etel Adnan, who died on Sunday, November 14th in Paris at the age of ninety-six. Etel was a generous spirit and guide, always interested in the work of younger and emerging poets, and looking to make connections with artists and writers around the world. Born and raised in Beirut, she lived for many years in Sausalito, California, at the foot of Mount Tamalpais, which inspired many of her paintings, and then in her final years, in Paris's Left Bank and the Brittany coast, near her beloved sea. Etel…

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November 1, 2021

Paolo Javier on the Comics Titles that Inspired O.B.B.

Today we're celebrating the publication of O.B.B. by Paolo Javier, featuring artwork by Ernest Concepcion and Alexander Tarampi! O.B.B. aka The Original Brown Boy is comprised of a series of comic book collaborations with text and image, as well as poems and essays that expand upon the nature of comics themselves. O.B.B. has many layered and intersecting identities: postcolonial, manifesto, conceptual, collaborative, avant garde, political cartoon, and more. In celebration of the book's release, we're excited to share a list of comics titles that inspired the creation of O.B.B., written by author Paolo Javier. Read on below! (We have attempted…

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October 22, 2021

Announcing the 2021 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 four manuscripts for publication! Read more about each of the manuscripts below:   Greasepaint by Hannah Levene [gallery columns="1" size="large" ids="13366"] Against a backdrop of 1950s America, Greasepaint follows an ensemble cast of all singing, all dancing butch dykes and Yiddish anarchists through eternal Friday nights round the table, and at the bar. Hannah Levene is a writer and poet based in Norwich, UK. Her work has appeared in Hotel, Datableed, -algia, and Spam. Her poetry collection "Boneless Ribs" was published in 2018.…

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