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Tiff DressenInterviews |
April 19, 2022

Tiff Dressen, Author of Of Mineral Talks to Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala!

Happy publication day to Tiff Dressen's Of Mineral! To celebrate, Nightboat fellow Snigdha Koirala speaks to Tiff about queer genealogies of San Francisco, the collapse of boundaries between the "urban" and the "wild," King Lear, and more! Take a look below. _________________________________ Snigdha: Of Mineral is concerned with collapsing the boundaries between the “urban” and the “wild,” and gestures toward a more unified, intermingling relationship between the two. Can you speak more to this relationship? What was it like cultivating it in the book?  Tiff: Thank you, I love this question, especially because I wasn’t conscious that such a collapse of “urban”…

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Sueyeun Juliette LeeInterviews |
March 29, 2022

A Conversation With Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Author Of Aerial Concave Without Cloud and Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala!

Happy publication day to Sueyeun Juliette Lee's Aerial Concave Without Cloud! To celebrate, Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala speaks to Juliette about the salp'uri dance form, color, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and more! This interview features photography from the author. __________________________________________________ Snigdha: Your practice of poetics draws and expands upon the process of the salp’uri dance form. What was the process of cultivating a relationship between the dance form and your own writing? And specifically with Aerial Concave, how did you come to develop this relationship? Juliettee: Cultivating a relationship to the salp’uri dance form took a leap and feeling my way into…

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March 25, 2022

Nightboat Books Editorial Fellowship

Nightboat Books is delighted to announce our new Editorial Fellowship, a program designed to support an aspiring BIPOC editor in developing a book project of their choosing for publication at Nightboat! Over the course of…

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March 1, 2022

CURB by Divya Victor is the Winner of Two Major Awards!

We;re thrilled to share that CURB by Divya Victor is the winner of the PEN Open Book Award, which confers a $10,000 prize and a fully-funded artist residency at Civitella Ranieri to an author of color! Congratulations to Divya, and all the finalists and winners of the PEN America Literary Awards. You can view the full list of the finalists here. We are also thrilled to share that CURB by Divya Victor has been named the winner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, which presents $100,000 to a mid-career poet! She will receive the award during a ceremony on April…

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Wayne Koestenbaum Hammer MuseumInterviews |
February 22, 2022

A Conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum, author of Ultramarine, and Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala

Happy publication day to Wayne Koestenbaum's Ultramarine, the closing title in the acclaimed trance poem trilogy (the previous two collections include The Pink Trance Notebooks and Camp Marmalade). To celebrate this milestone Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala speaks to Wayne about desire, void, dreams, and cultivating a steady kind of pleasure in his new book. Take a look below! 15346

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February 18, 2022

Mónica de la Torre is the recipient of two major awards!

We're excited to share that Mónica de la Torre is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award and the C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts! We're thrilled to be the publisher of her most recent collection, Repetition Nineteen, a genre-defying project that focuses on translation as displacement, mediation, and a form of code-switching. The C.D. Wright Award is given "to a poet over the age of 50 whose work exemplifies Wright's vibrant lyricism, seriousness, and striking originality." —Foundation for Contemporary Arts For her Creative Capital Award, she'll be working on an ambitious "book-length literary hybrid whose…

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