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September 29, 2023

An Interview With Douglas A. Martin

Photo Credit: Bobby Abate Happiest of birthdays to one of Nightboat's own, Douglas A. Martin! To celebrate their 50th, we had a conversation with the renowned poet, novelist, scholar, and educator (and surely all of…

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September 26, 2023

An Interview With Brian Teare, Author Of Poem Bitten By A Man

Brian Teare’s Poem Bitten By A Man—published today—collages the work of Agnes Martin, Jasper Johns, and others whose work is part of a broader conversation (on art, affect, and all that comes with those). He writes in the penultimate poem, “I believe care’s the core of interpretive work, fragment of an immense form of mending together.” When I asked him about this process of assemblage — how he put his own notebook practice on the page, and how he worked with/through our understandings of temporality — he said it was “Fucking magic, as far as I’m concerned.” Eileen Myles agrees…

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August 24, 2023

An Interview With Naima Yael Tokunow, Nightboat’s Inaugural Editorial Fellow

We recently spoke with Nightboat's inaugural Editorial Fellow, Naima Yael Tokunow, about the creative process of editing, how she found her way to the a/Archive, and what she looks for in a piece of writing. We’re so excited to publish her anthology project, Permanent Record, in 2024. Nightboat: What led you to an interest in the a/Archive, as both (as you describe it) “the commodification of shared cultural recording” and as a “counter-practice”? Naima Yael Tokunow: The recorded lives of Black American families are like spider webs—ephemeral, tenuous, glittering—so often, we have not been afforded the privilege of remembrance, and so…

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August 8, 2023

An Interview With Eric Sneathen, Author of Don’t Leave Me This Way

Eric Sneathen’s Don’t Leave Me This Way — published today — takes an expansive look at the AIDS epidemic and its (ongoing) aftermath. The collection is an interrogation of this history, as Sneathen collapses familiar markers of place, person, and any conventions of “normalcy” to move towards something else (“I’ll call it ecstasy,” he writes). In Sneathen’s words, “each poem is a room of sorts, a sanctuary of objects, privacies, and associations.” All of them resonate.  Our conversation below is similarly expansive — we discussed lyric intimacies, poetic collage, and what a collective project of sexuality could look like. Make…

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July 5, 2023

An Interview With Dior J. Stephens, Author of CRUEL/CRUEL

In March, I arrived too late to hear Dior J. Stephens read from CRUEL/CRUEL at a packed Nightboat event at the Rendezvous in Seattle. So, when the opportunity arrived to have this conversation with Dior about their recent collection, I leapt at the chance. As a new fan of Stephen’s poetry and the way CRUEL/CRUEL simultaneously feels like an art object and performance, I wanted to hear more about the poet, their process, stories leading up the book’s release, and what’s on the horizon for them! —Thomas Dunn, Poet Thomas Dunn: “Once Again” begins your debut collection in an impactful way.…

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June 15, 2023

An interview with Kevin Holden, author of Pink Noise

Pink Noise is a deciduous forest of miracles 15 years in the making. Even now, holding the book in my hands to write this introduction, I find it still changing, mutating, shimmering, queering, and propagating. I had the honor of interviewing Kevin Holden about the process behind this journey, where we delve into realms magical, vegetal, mineral, and angelic. During the interview, Kevin writes: “it isn’t only a process of writing a book start to finish, but also a matter of drawing from different regions of work and feeling out how these variegated pieces can come together into a unified,…

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Opportunities |
May 15, 2023

Announcing the 2023 Nightboat Prose Reading Period!

We're thrilled to announce that Nightboat Books is considering prose manuscripts from May 15th-July 9th, 2023. 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 writing, including inter-genre/hybrid writing, book-length essays, collaborations, and manuscripts of formally experimental fiction and/or nonfiction. Prose translations, international anglophone writing, and multi-lingual texts welcome. 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. You're welcome to include images in your manuscript, but…

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