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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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December 21, 2021

Announcing Nightboat New Year’s Promotions!

Happy New Year from Nightboat Books! In 2021, we debuted our subscription program–offering subscribers our complete annual catalog at a 25% discount–and were delighted by the response. For 2022, we’re excited to share that we’ll be revamping our subscription program, and introducing a few new other ways to stay up-to-date with the Nightboat catalog!  Meanwhile, if you’re still looking for a last-minute holiday gift, or if you’re not sure where to start exploring the Nightboat catalog, keep reading for our staff-curated reading lists, organized by interest. Nightboat subscriptions are a perfect gift for the lover of provocative and risk-taking literature in your…

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October 26, 2021

A Conversation With Olivia Tapiero and Kit Schluter on Phototaxis

Today is the publication day of Olivia Tapiero's Phototaxis! In celebration of the book's release, we're excited to share a conversation with Tapiero and translator Kit Schluter about the poetics and music behind Phototaxis. Read on below!   Olivia Tapiero's Phototaxis is a book of voices—voices chanting toward the rising light of a posthuman world. From the many, three voices arise as its heart: that of Théo, a classical piano player whose suicide lends the book its gravitational center; that of Zev, a political activist whose dogmatism, through contrast, draws into focus the book's aspiration for discursive refusal; and that of Narr,…

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October 12, 2021

A Conversation With Oscar Oswald And Gillian Conoley On Irredenta

Today we're celebrating the publication day of Oscar Oswald's Irredenta! In a conversation for the Nightboat Blog, Nightboat author Gillian Conoley and Oscar Oswald discuss the seductions, pitfalls, and politics of the pastoral, the lyric "I," and the American West, among other topics. Take a look below!   Gillian Conoley: Dear Oscar, your debut Irredenta, so aptly named, is both positioned within and a critique of the pastoral tradition. I’m intrigued by the lyric you shape throughout, a “herdsman’s song” full of resistance and dissent, and yet also a lyric that retains a delicious lush sense of the lyre. You might not…

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