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November 1, 2021

Paolo Javier on the Comics Titles that Inspired O.B.B.

Today we're celebrating the publication of O.B.B. by Paolo Javier, featuring artwork by Ernest Concepcion and Alexander Tarampi! O.B.B. aka The Original Brown Boy is comprised of a series of comic book collaborations with text and image, as well as poems and essays that expand upon the nature of comics themselves. O.B.B. has many layered and intersecting identities: postcolonial, manifesto, conceptual, collaborative, avant garde, political cartoon, and more. In celebration of the book's release, we're excited to share a list of comics titles that inspired the creation of O.B.B., written by author Paolo Javier. Read on below! (We have attempted…

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October 22, 2021

Announcing the 2021 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 four manuscripts for publication! Read more about each of the manuscripts below:   Greasepaint by Hannah Levene [gallery columns="1" size="large" ids="13366"] Against a backdrop of 1950s America, Greasepaint follows an ensemble cast of all singing, all dancing butch dykes and Yiddish anarchists through eternal Friday nights round the table, and at the bar. Hannah Levene is a writer and poet based in Norwich, UK. Her work has appeared in Hotel, Datableed, -algia, and Spam. Her poetry collection "Boneless Ribs" was published in 2018.…

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September 21, 2021

Joey Yearous-Algozin On Guided Meditations, Ambient Soundscapes And New Age Music For The End Of The World

This week on the Nightboat blog, we're celebrating the recent publication of Joey Yearous-Algozin’s A Feeling Called Heaven with an ambient and New Age mixtape inspired by the book--which takes the form of a guided meditation on human extinction--and compiled by the author himself. Take a listen and let yourself be guided into the present and into oblivion.   I’m sitting on a pew in a church in Brooklyn with my friend Marie. It’s night and we’re there to see Laraaji, the renowned New Age musician and laughter meditation teacher, perform a live set. Before him, the opener, Brooklyn-based musician Rachika…

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September 14, 2021

Virtual Book Tour for Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam!

Announcing the Virtual Book Tour for Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam!   Friday, 9/17 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET hosted by Books Are Magic with NM Esc, Sahar Khraibani, Andrea Lawlor, Eileen Myles & Kamelya Omayma Youssef. RSVP here.   Thursday, 9/23 at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET hosted by Skylight Books with Randa Jarrar. RSVP here.   Tuesday, 9/28 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET hosted by City Lights with Leila Weefur. RSVP here.   Sunday, 10/10 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET hosted by Poetic Research Bureau with Jackie Ess & Fargo Nissim Tbakhi.   Thursday, 10/14 at 7:30pm Central / 8:30pm ET hosted by Poetry & BYOBiscuits.   Saturday, 10/23 hosted by Mizna, time TBA!    Monday, 11/15 at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET hosted by Four Queens with Angel Dominguez.

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August 23, 2021

An Interview With Nightboat Books in Literary Hub!

"Every book has a backstory: to hold one of Nightboat Books’ publications is to have the sense of a longer, more complex, and ultimately more rewarding backstory than most."—Corinne Segal Let Nightboat staff give you a peek into what goes on behind the scenes here at Nightboat Books! Thanks to Literary Hub and Corinne Segal for featuring us in this fantastic series on indie publishers. Click here to read the full interview!

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August 2, 2021

Carrie Hunter On Vibratory Milieu And The Collage Form!

Today on the Nightboat blog, the poet Carrie Hunter discusses the writing and process behind her book Vibratory Milieu, taking us along with her as she details her experience writing poems in the back of a credit union, her belief in the "sense" of disjunction, and the politics of her collage poetics. Read on below! Vibratory Milieu was written over a span of eight years (around 2010-2017 or so) using bits and pieces from a multitude of sources: current events, social media (from the era when we used Facebook to write contextless poetic lines), lines from or inspired by films, and, of…

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