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April 27, 2023

An Interview with Notes from The Passenger author, Gillian Conoley!

To commemorate the publication of Notes From The Passenger, Nightboat intern Em/Emily Lu Gao spoke with Gillian Conoley on catastrophe, violence, the ineffable, the piano, "finding bookness,” and bardic journey. Read more below! ____________________ Em: The motif of a loss of individual control in our current moment is prevalent in your new collection of poems. I found that many of your poems embrace rather than eschew or condemn the lack of control—beauty in shared destabilization. How has your relationship to control, to being a passenger, changed or stayed the same since finishing this book? Gillian: I like your phrase “beauty in shared destabilization.”…

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April 20, 2023

22nd Annual NYC Independent Publishers Book Party, Thurs, May 4th

Join us for the 22nd Annual New York City Independent Publishers Book Party at James Cohan Gallery 48 Walker Street, NYC 10013 on Thursday, May 4th from 6-8pm *Drinks will be served* Free and open to all! Featuring: Belladonna* Birds, LLC Black Square Editions Black Sun Lit Fence Futurepoem Books Hanging Loose Press Nightboat Books Purgatory Pie Press Roof Books The Song Cave Tender Buttons Ugly Duckling Presse Wendy’s Subway Winter Editions World Poetry Books

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Opportunities |
February 22, 2023

Call for Submissions: Permanent Record

Nightboat Books is excited to invite submissions for an anthology edited by Naima Yael Tokunow. Permanent Record, an experimental collection of poetry and poetics, will hold work that engages with the a/Archive. We are thinking of the a/Archive in two forms: the Archive, as the commodification of shared cultural recording (i.e. The Canon, The State, the Written Record, forms of documentation, and other “Legitimate” ways of knowing), and the archive, as a counter-practice, the portals to the future, histories, and lineages that stem from our current moment. This anthology will be published by Nightboat Books in the Fall 2024/Winter 2025. Currently,…

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Interviews |
January 24, 2023

At the Intersection: Aaron Shurin talks with Brian Teare about Unbound: A Book of AIDS

Today we celebrate the publication of Unbound: A Book of AIDS with an interview between two queer Nightboat authors, Brian Teare and Aaron Shurin. The two engage in an evocative conversation that runs the gamut from queer ecstasy and poetic aesthetics to the ramifications of AIDS and the enchantment of language. As Shurin says, a poet can "awaken the facts so that the reader might participate as one of the community in peril and in grace." This compelling conversation between Teare and Shurin does exactly that. Brian Teare: I’ve always loved how deeply intertwined the physical artifice of drag is…

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Interviews |
November 18, 2022

Interview with Jeffrey Zuckerman, the translator of Hervé Guibert’s My Manservant and Me!

To celebrate the recent publication of My Manservant and Me by Hervé Guibert, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman, poet & past Nightboat Intern Ryan Cook speaks with Jeffrey about translation, big universal brands like Nike and McDonalds, and Guibert's body of work. Take a look below! ______________________________ Ryan Cook: I wanted to start by asking what your relationship to Hervé Guibert’s work is? When did you first learn about him, and how has his writing affected your life on a personal level? Jeffrey Zuckerman: So, I first discovered Guibert when I was just out of college—I was working as an editorial assistant at…

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October 21, 2022

Interview with imogen xtian smith, author of stemmy things!

Girl-thems rejoice! The publication day for imogen xtian smith’s stemmy things has arrived. To celebrate, poet & past Nightboat Intern Ryan Cook speaks with imogen about communal spaces, SOPHIE, being “hot for long ass poems”, and more. Take a look below! _________________________ Ryan: First off, I wanted to thank you so much for creating this book and answering some questions about it. As a trans person myself, I really found that the language and themes resonated with me. I particularly loved the colloquialisms, puns, and jargon that weave themselves within the poems in this collection. “Wild geese with transexuals & acid”…

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