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August 2, 2021

Carrie Hunter On Vibratory Milieu And The Collage Form!

Today on the Nightboat blog, the poet Carrie Hunter discusses the writing and process behind her book Vibratory Milieu, taking us along with her as she details her experience writing poems in the back of a credit union, her belief in the "sense" of disjunction, and the politics of her collage poetics. Read on below! Vibratory Milieu was written over a span of eight years (around 2010-2017 or so) using bits and pieces from a multitude of sources: current events, social media (from the era when we used Facebook to write contextless poetic lines), lines from or inspired by films, and, of…

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June 21, 2021

Cole Swensen on Art in Time!

Today on the Nightboat blog, we're taking a spotlight to Cole Swensen's Art in Time, published in May by Nightboat. Read through for Cole's take on the artists who inspired the writing of this collection--as well as excerpts from the poems in Art in Time which resulted from her engagement with their work. (We have attempted to keep the formatting of the poems as true to the book as possible, but our website has formatting limitations--please keep this in mind!)   Agnes Varda (1928-2019) was a marvelously pioneering woman in the world of film and is considered by many to be the founder…

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June 10, 2021

An interview with Camille Roy and the editors of Honey Mine, Eric Sneathen and Lauren Levin!

Today on the Nightboat blog, we're highlighting the soon-to-be-published Honey Mine by Camille Roy (ed. Eric Sneathen and Lauren Levin, pub date 6/29), a book of collected stories written roughly between 1985 and 2018. A crucial figure in the intellectually heady and sexually charged New Narrative literary movement, Camille Roy continues to be an inspiration to many lesbian and queer experimental writers. For the Nightboat blog, Roy and editors Eric Sneathen and Lauren Levin discuss the making of Honey Mine, its formal qualities, and the histories and experience that inspired its writing. _______________________________________________________________________ Eric Sneathen: What is Honey Mine? Truly, I'm not…

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May 25, 2021

A Conversation with Judy Grahn, Author of Eruptions of Inanna!

On the publication day of Eruptions of Inanna, learn more about the thinking and process behind author Judy Grahn's queer reclamation of these ancient myths, as well as Grahn's long and storied history of gay and lesbian activism. ______________________________________________________________________ What prompted you to write Eruptions of Inanna?  From my mid-twenties onward I have dedicated my work to providing inclusive origin stories to replace those that omitted me and the people I love, to give us a place to live in the world. I took on challenging the psychiatric establishment, the public presence of lesbians in the women’s movement, the necessity for anti-racism,…

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May 12, 2021

A Conversation with Allison Cobb on Plastic: An Autobiography!

In celebration of the recent publication of Allison Cobb's Plastic: An Autobiography, we asked Allison a few questions about the thinking and process behind the making of this expansive and ambitious book, which was ten years in the making. *** What led you to writing Plastic? We live at a time when our smallest daily actions (turning on a light, starting a car) have planetary impacts. It’s a difficult concept to grasp because climate change so exceeds the scale and scope of the human. Plastic, on the other hand, is concrete. Many of us have an intimate, daily relationship with it. But…

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April 26, 2021

In Solidarity with the Asian Community in America

A Letter from the Nightboat Staff in Solidarity with the Asian Community in America   The Nightboat Books team is devastated and outraged at the ongoing acts of violence and hate directed towards the Asian community in America. We stand in solidarity with the victims and families of these senseless attacks and the Asian community at large.  Though the American legal system has often failed to acknowledge the racial motivations behind these murders and assaults, we recognize that these acts of violence against Asians, including Asian women and Asian sex workers, are far from isolated incidents. Former President Trump’s equating of the…

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