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September 5, 2023

Nightboat’s Curation of the Segue Reading Series this Fall!

We are delighted to announce that Nightboat Books is collaborating with Segue Foundation and curating The Segue Reading Series at Artists Space this Fall! Every Saturday in October and November (excluding the weekend of Thanksgiving), we are thrilled to be hosting readings from a dynamic cohort of writers. Each event is in-person, located at Artists Space: 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York, NY 10013. Each reading will also be live-streamed on Zoom and archived. Doors open at 4:30pm, and the readings begins promptly at 5pm. The admission is $5, and all proceeds go directly to the readers. Here is the calendar: Oct 7: Aurora…

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August 8, 2023

An Interview with Kimberly Alidio, Author of Teeter

In 2020, Kimberly Alidio published two essays on the Poetry Foundation's blog that reflected on her relationship to Language poetry, a movement whose avant-garde poetics have been dismissed by some as apolitical, academic, willfully opaque, and white. But for Kimberly, the experience of reading Language poetry, with its sonics and insistence on alternate forms of meaning-making, recalled a childhood growing up monolingual in a Filipino immigrant household, surrounded by a language Kimberly could not speak. This is an extremely common experience for children of Filipino immigrants, and as a kindred Filipino poet who had grown up in a similar…

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Interviews |
June 23, 2023

An Interview With Brandon Shimoda, Author Of Hydra Medusa

To celebrate the publication of Hydra Medusa, Nightboat spring intern Emily Lu Gao (Em) spoke with Brandon Shimoda about dreamscapes, hybridity, and ghosts. Read more below! Em Gao: Japanese incarceration is a difficult and important topic: one you have aptly returned to with grace, dignity and tenderness. Your book is a hybrid form, weaving together poems, speculative talks, and your dreamscape: what does writing about the topic in a hybrid form do for you? How do you think it differs than solely writing poems/prose? Brandon Shimoda: Thank you so much for these incredible questions, Em! And for your kind words about my writing…

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Interviews |
June 8, 2023

An interview with Kay Gabriel, author of A Queen in Bucks County

I first had the luxury of reading A Queen in Bucks County as a summer intern at Nightboat, sent off to proofread the PDF at a local coffee shop. I was flushed beet red and filled to the brim with awe for the next four hours as I became seduced by what is now one of my favorite epistolary works. Over the course of an interview, I got to ask Kay questions that lingered within me for months after my initial reading. We discussed the social efficacy of New Narrative, sex writing as means of seducing your friends, dialectical thinking,…

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Opportunities |
May 5, 2023

Nightboat Books Summer Publicity Fellowship

The program is designed to engage the fellow in all aspects of the publicity and marketing process, including writing pitches, creating press releases, researching reviewers and magazines, online and community engagement and social media, as well as other aspects of the publishing industry. This program is designed to be a dynamic experience, offering the fellow a valuable overview of the publicity process and publishing in general. Fellows are expected to work 8-10 hours per week and are paid $17 an hour, receive free books, mentorship, and professional recommendations. The Nightboat Books fellowship is based in Brooklyn, NY; preference given to…

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