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March 4, 2024

Azad Ashim Sharma Tour to Celebrate Boiled Owls

03/28/24 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 5-6.30 PM Memorial Union Room. 242. With Jacqueline Balderrama, Cecilia Savala, and in conversation with Susan Nguyen 03/30/24 BROOKLYN, NYC, 7-9 PM Word Is Change Bookstore. With Kevin Holden, Emily Lee Luan and…

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February 27, 2024

An Interview with Nora Treatbaby, Author of Our Air

Adelita Husni-Bey describes Our Air—out today from Nightboat—as "Delphic, ecstatic, erotic, mystical, riotous, erudite." I would only add the word hilarious. Nora Treatbaby is our lodestar in a strange, hellish landscape, leading us heavenwards to what she calls "a revolution which doesn't feel available to us at the moment." This is a scream at the Apple Store; a love letter to the world; "all vibes." —Dante Silva Dante Silva: I’m interested in all the possibilities, real and imagined, for life and matter. It seems you share this interest. Our Air is, in my reading, in conversation with science fictions, the more than human,…

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February 13, 2024

An Interview with Hannah Levene, author of Greasepaint

Below is a conversation between Dante Silva and Hannah Levene to discuss Hannah's dazzling debut novel Greasepaint. Greasepaint is the portrait of a community staged in a never ending Friday night around the bar,…

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January 24, 2024

Nightboat at AWP 2024

We’re delighted to announce that we will be returning to AWP this February! We hope you will join us at these offsite events or visit our booth #1516 to get your book signed during one of our signings! *** Celebrate Nightboat at Nimble Brewing Thursday, February 8th At Nimble Brewing 1735 Oak St, Kansas City, MO 64108 5pm-7pm Readings by: Azad Sharma Emily Lee Luan Janice Sapigao Johannes Goransson Jon L Pitt Kevin Holden Poets Party with Nightboat at Missie B's Friday, February 9th At Missie B’s 805 W 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111 5pm-7pm Readings by: Andrea Abi-Karam Brian Teare Dior J. Stephens Gillian Conoley Laura Henriksen Nora Treatbaby Ronaldo V. Wilson Rosie Stockton Tiff Dressen Wo Chann Author Singings at Nightboat Books Booth #1516 Thursday: 11-12 Dior J.…

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December 5, 2023

An Interview With Benjamin Friedlander, Co-Editor of Nice: Collected Poems

David Melnick (1938-2022) is remembered as one of the outstanding provocateurs of twentieth-century poetry, a poet “suffocated by meaning,” one who read in glittering platform heels with a glass of cabernet. While Melnick was…

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November 27, 2023

Announcing the 2023 Prose Reading Period Selections

This year we received hundreds of submissions to our Prose Reading Period. We are excited to announce that we are accepting two manuscripts for publication! Read more about each of the manuscripts below: Small Sargassum Mountains/Pequeñas montañas de sargazo by Antonio Ochoa Small Sargassum Mountains/Pequeñas montañas de sargazo is a book of trajectories, of connections, of isomorphisms, of distances. This book is also a hybrid, where the borders between poetry and prose, reading and writing, Spanish and English, experience and memory are eroded like a shoreline. Antonio Ochoa was born in Mexico City. He has published two books of poems (pulsos and El toro de Hiroshima).…

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November 24, 2023

International Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine

On Saturday, November 25th, we gather writers from around the world for a 24-hour reading in support of Palestinian writers, Palestinian voices in diaspora, and their allies. We gather in the spirit of fundamental…

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November 21, 2023

An Interview With Chris Daniels, Translator of One Impossible Step

"My most childish dream is to be translated," wrote Orides Fontela (b. 1940 in São João da Boa Vista, in the interior of São Paulo). "It's completely silly, of course. But it must be nice to be international." Below is a conversation with Chris Daniels, who compiled and translated the poems in One Impossible Step — the first ever collection of Orides Fontela’s poetry to appear in English, out today from Nightboat. Of the collection, he states he “tried to show the way Orides Fontela cognized life, and to give the reader an idea of what she was like as…

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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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November 2, 2023

An Interview With Jon L Pitt, Translator of Tree Spirits Grass Spirits

Hirmoi Ito is one of Japan’s most prominent contemporary writers, and has been since her debut, Kusaki no sora (translated into English as The Plants and the Sky). Her work has always shared an…

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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…