Filters

Close

News

Contests |
April 22, 2019

Call for Submissions: Radical Trans Poetics Anthology

WHAT: Nightboat Books is excited to invite submissions for an anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, co-edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel. By “radical” we mean to suggest two overlapping aims, both political and aesthetic. Politically, we’re interested in assembling poetry and poetics united against capitalism, racism and empire, in a horizon of gender and sexual liberation. We’re excited by poetry that emerges from, travels alongside, encompasses or corresponds with collective struggle and movement. We believe that poems can think ambitiously about the heinous bullshit we fight and how we fight it, so we’re curious about writing that’s as ferocious, unrestrained,…

Read More

Awards |
April 11, 2019

Samiya Bashir Wins Rome Prize!

Samiya Bashir, author of Field Theories Awarded prestigious 2019–20 Rome Prize! The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2019–20 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research…

Read More

Blog |
April 9, 2019

“Doomstead Days”: An Interview with Brian Teare

      Brian Teare's new collection Doomstead Days figures itself an oblong baritone shape, a cargo ship of poems and various other fuels barrelling towards us. Opening with the clamor of a container ship's collision into the San Francisco Bay Bridge and the subsequent fallout, the book is as much witness and chronicle as it is elegy. In anticipation of his poignant new collection, Brian and I cyber-chatted about the Anthropocene, ecofeminism, elastic syntax, astrology, and more. —June Shanahan     June Shanahan: In considering the cover art for Doomstead Days, I found myself thinking about the frog-- how the slimy, webbed,…

Read More

Events |
April 7, 2019

Printed Matter’s LA Art Bookfair April 11-14!

  We're tabling at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair April 11th-14th! Come visit us at table H03! https://laabf2019.printedmatterartbookfairs.org Our reading is the closing Sunday event: Nightboat Books reading, with Tisa Bryant, Jos Charles, Carlos Lara, Eleni Sikelianos,…

Read More

Reviews |
March 20, 2019

Invasive species by Marwa Helal reviewed in The New York Times!

We are so thrilled to share that Marwa Helal's fantastic debut, Invasive species was just reviewed by Stephanie Burt in The New York Times Book Review. Pick up a copy of the Sunday times this weekend to see it in print! "Marwa Helal has lived, not always by her own choice, both in Egypt and in America, belonging to both countries and to neither: “I have been missing home my entire life,” she writes. In the same way, Helal’s first and often stellar book belongs to many categories, and to none. It contains prose and verse; polemic and introspection; remixed pop lyrics…

Read More

Events |
March 19, 2019

#AWP19 Nightboat Author Signing Schedule

Visit booth #8026 at AWP in Portland, pick up our frontlist / backlist / not quite out yet titles & have our fabulous authors sign them! Author signing schedule: Thursday 3/28 10-11am: Fred Schmalz, Action in the Orchards 11-12pm: Marwa Helal, Invasive species 12-1pm: Stephanie Young, Pet Sounds 3-5pm: Gracie Leavitt, Livingry Friday 3/29 12-1pm: jayy dodd, The Black Condition ft. Narcissus 1:30-2: Hazel White, Vigilance Is No Orchard 2-3pm: Marwa Helal, Invasive species + Fred Schmalz, Action in the Orchards 3-4pm: Brian Teare, Doomstead Days + Stephanie Young, Pet Sounds 4-5pm: Stacy Szymaszek, A Year From Today Saturday 3/30 9-11am: Allison Cobb, Green-Wood 11-12pm: Brian Teare, Doomstead Days 12-1pm: Chad Sweeney, Little Million Doors 1-2pm: Brian Blanchfield, Proxies 2-3pm: Stacy Szymaszek, A…

Read More

Events |
March 13, 2019

#AWP2019 Nightboat Events!

3/28: Thursday | 5-7pm | Nightboat Books Offsite Group Reading featuring: Allison Cobb, Eleni Sikelianos, Aldrin Valdez, jayy dodd, Laura Moriarty, Fred Schmalz, Gracie Leavitt, Dawn Lundy Martin, Marwa Helal, Stephanie Young, Hazel White, Chad…

Read More

Contests |
February 26, 2019

Editorial Selection: Vibratory Milieu by Carrie Hunter

Congrats to Carrie Hunter! Vibratory Milieu for publication in Fall 2020 Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, is on the editorial board of Black Radish Books, and edited the chapbook press, ypolita press, for 11 years. She has two books out with Black Radish Books, The Incompossible and Orphan Machines, and has published around 15 chapbooks, the most recent, Series of out Sequence, from above/ground press. She lives in San Francisco and teaches ESL.

Read More

Contests |
February 26, 2019

2018 Poetry Prize Winner!

Congratulations to Carlos Lara, 2018 Nightboat Poetry Prize Winner! Here is Kazim Ali's full editorial citation for Lara's Like Bismuth When I Enter:  Carlos Lara’s Like Bismuth When I Enter enters the space of ritual, incantation and trance with a stunning assemblage of images and structures. No line forgets itself because each announces itself past traditional language structures and usages so urgently that one is compelled to pay the most focused attention. One often cites a book’s excellence by saying it bears or invites or rewards rereading and in this case each of these different verbal approaches is true—and the text reads you right back. While reading…

Read More