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November 15, 2023

Nightboat signs on to PACBI

Joining with many other poetry and arts organizations, Nightboat Books is signing on to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). This means we will not collaborate with Israeli academic and…

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November 7, 2023

An Interview with Jasmine Gibson, Author of A Beauty Has Come

Jasmine Gibson and I first met and collaborated on a performance project in 2019. Since then, we’ve read together, celebrated and dreamed together. From stages to zoom rooms, I’ve had the honor of experiencing Jasmine’s spacious facilitation of ideas and language in conversations with fellow artists. I read a version of her resplendent second poetry collection A Beauty Has Come in 2022 (out today from Nightboat). Revisiting it now, I might draw this throughline to her debut collection Don’t Let Them See Me Like This (2018): Jasmine’s poems take state-sponsored violence not as spectacular interruption but as a regrettably ordinary and ongoing material condition. From…

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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 those in combination). We discussed Douglas's work, from Outline of My Lover to Wolf; their artistic affinities, which span from Hart Crane to Catherine Clément, and back again; and how "a grain holds a lot," as they say here. Take a look at the full conversation below! —Dante Silva Dante Silva: Happy happy birthday! How are you celebrating?  Douglas A. Martin: Thank you, Dante. One only gets to…

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September 5, 2023

Nightboat’s Curation of the Segue Reading Series this Fall!

We are delighted to announce that Nightboat Books is collaborating with Segue Foundation and curating The Segue Reading Series at Artists Space this Fall! Every Saturday in October and November (excluding the weekend of Thanksgiving), we are thrilled to be hosting readings from a dynamic cohort of writers. Each event is in-person, located at Artists Space: 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York, NY 10013. Each reading will also be live-streamed on Zoom and archived. Doors open at 4:30pm, and the readings begins promptly at 5pm. The admission is $5, and all proceeds go directly to the readers. Here is the calendar: Oct 7: Aurora…

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August 8, 2023

An Interview with Kimberly Alidio, Author of Teeter

In 2020, Kimberly Alidio published two essays on the Poetry Foundation's blog that reflected on her relationship to Language poetry, a movement whose avant-garde poetics have been dismissed by some as apolitical, academic, willfully opaque, and white. But for Kimberly, the experience of reading Language poetry, with its sonics and insistence on alternate forms of meaning-making, recalled a childhood growing up monolingual in a Filipino immigrant household, surrounded by a language Kimberly could not speak. This is an extremely common experience for children of Filipino immigrants, and as a kindred Filipino poet who had grown up in a similar…

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June 23, 2023

An Interview With Brandon Shimoda, Author Of Hydra Medusa

To celebrate the publication of Hydra Medusa, Nightboat spring intern Emily Lu Gao (Em) spoke with Brandon Shimoda about dreamscapes, hybridity, and ghosts. Read more below! Em Gao: Japanese incarceration is a difficult and important topic: one you have aptly returned to with grace, dignity and tenderness. Your book is a hybrid form, weaving together poems, speculative talks, and your dreamscape: what does writing about the topic in a hybrid form do for you? How do you think it differs than solely writing poems/prose? Brandon Shimoda: Thank you so much for these incredible questions, Em! And for your kind words about my writing…

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