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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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Interviews |
June 8, 2023

An interview with Kay Gabriel, author of A Queen in Bucks County

I first had the luxury of reading A Queen in Bucks County as a summer intern at Nightboat, sent off to proofread the PDF at a local coffee shop. I was flushed beet red and filled to the brim with awe for the next four hours as I became seduced by what is now one of my favorite epistolary works. Over the course of an interview, I got to ask Kay questions that lingered within me for months after my initial reading. We discussed the social efficacy of New Narrative, sex writing as means of seducing your friends, dialectical thinking,…

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Opportunities |
May 5, 2023

Nightboat Books Summer Publicity Fellowship

The program is designed to engage the fellow in all aspects of the publicity and marketing process, including writing pitches, creating press releases, researching reviewers and magazines, online and community engagement and social media, as well as other aspects of the publishing industry. This program is designed to be a dynamic experience, offering the fellow a valuable overview of the publicity process and publishing in general. Fellows are expected to work 8-10 hours per week and are paid $17 an hour, receive free books, mentorship, and professional recommendations. The Nightboat Books fellowship is based in Brooklyn, NY; preference given to…

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Interviews |
April 27, 2023

An Interview with Notes from The Passenger author, Gillian Conoley!

To commemorate the publication of Notes From The Passenger, Nightboat intern Em/Emily Lu Gao spoke with Gillian Conoley on catastrophe, violence, the ineffable, the piano, "finding bookness,” and bardic journey. Read more below! ____________________ Em: The motif of a loss of individual control in our current moment is prevalent in your new collection of poems. I found that many of your poems embrace rather than eschew or condemn the lack of control—beauty in shared destabilization. How has your relationship to control, to being a passenger, changed or stayed the same since finishing this book? Gillian: I like your phrase “beauty in shared destabilization.”…

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April 20, 2023

22nd Annual NYC Independent Publishers Book Party, Thurs, May 4th

Join us for the 22nd Annual New York City Independent Publishers Book Party at James Cohan Gallery 48 Walker Street, NYC 10013 on Thursday, May 4th from 6-8pm *Drinks will be served* Free and open to all! Featuring: Belladonna* Birds, LLC Black Square Editions Black Sun Lit Fence Futurepoem Books Hanging Loose Press Nightboat Books Purgatory Pie Press Roof Books The Song Cave Tender Buttons Ugly Duckling Presse Wendy’s Subway Winter Editions World Poetry Books

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