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November 18, 2022

Rosie Stockton interviews Martine Syms & Rocket Caleshu, co-authors of The African Desperate!

To celebrate the recent publication of The African Desperate, fellow Nightboat author Rosie Stockton (Permanent Volta) speaks to Martine Syms and Rocket Caleshu about their process collaborating, the differences between the screenplay and the film, the art world, and more. Take a look below! ____________________ Rosie Stockton: First of all, congratulations on writing and producing an incredible movie, in addition to the publication of the screenplay as a stunning book. Can you talk about the decision to publish the screenplay – particularly with a queer poetry press!–and speak to what it holds as a text object that might differ from the…

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October 4, 2022

Interview with Eduardo Kac, author of Porneia!

Happy publication day to Eduardo Kac’s Porneia! To celebrate, Nightboat's Director & Publisher Stephen Motika speaks to Eduardo about the Porn Art Movement, Brazilian history, his teenage years at Ipanema Beach, the history of visual poetry, and more! Take a look below. _____________________________________ Can you talk about how the Porn Art Movement started and a bit about how you became involved with the movement?  By late 1979 I felt that art and poetry in Brazil had ossified around modernist narratives, and that it was time to launch a new movement, this time focused on the body as a meaning matrix. My idea…

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July 28, 2022

Judy Grahn, author of Eruptions of Inanna, talks about queer and trans figures in ancient mythology

Happy Birthday Judy Grahn! To celebrate, Eruptions of Inanna author Judy Grahn discusses the relationships between ancient tablets and small presses, queer and trans figures in Sumerian mythology, mythic realism and how the lamentation form fits into today’s society with Nightboat intern Ryan Cook. ____________________________________________________ Ryan: I wanted to start off by saying Happy Birthday! How are you going to spend it? Judy: Thanks Ryan! When I turned eighty a couple of years ago the plan was a big public party; Covid-19 put a stop to that idea. So instead I invited our little family "pod"--remember those?--for halibut cooked three different ways.…

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June 14, 2022

An interview with Kamden Ishmael Hilliard around their debut MissSettl!

Happy publication day to Kamden Ishmael Hilliard's debut collection MissSettl! To celebrate, Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala interviewed Kam about typographical intervention, performance and the American imperialist project, and more. Take a look below! _____________________________________________________ Snigdha: The collection is at once playful as it is filled with rage, as you trouble the assumptions around language, race, and settler colonialism in Hawaii. What was the process of cultivating playfulness and rage at the level of language and poetics? Kam: I grew up playing football, a game that often intentionally courted rage. Rage can be a technique of play. Further, I guess I don’t know if…

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