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Fiction
Sex Goblin

Lauren Cook

Poetry
Instructions for The Lovers

Dawn Lundy Martin

Fiction
Greasepaint

Hannah Levene

Poetry
Laura’s Desires

Laura Henriksen

Cover of Boiled Owls
Poetry
Boiled Owls

Azad Ashim Sharma

Poetry
Our Air

Nora Treatbaby

Cover of Death Styles
Poetry
Death Styles

Joyelle McSweeney

Translation, Poetry
Love Is Colder than the Lake

Liliane Giraudon

Sarah Riggs

Lindsay Turner

Poetry
WATCHNIGHT

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Essay
Dances of Time & Tenderness

Julian Carter

Translation, Essay
The Beauty of Light: Interviews with Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan

Laure Adler

Ethan Mitchell

Poetry
Lonespeech

Ann Jäderlund

Blog |
April 2, 2024

An Interview with Joyelle McSweeney, Author of Death Styles

There's an arbitrary, arguably American distinction between style and survival. Joyelle McSweeney's Death Styles—out today from Nightboat—makes the argument that the two are inseparable. The poems craft a portrait of loss and livelihood, of "audacity and absurdity"…

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March 15, 2024

Announcing Nightboat’s 2023 Poetry Prize Winners!

Announcing the Winners of the Nightboat Poetry Prize! This year we received over 950 submissions to our annual poetry prize. We are excited to announce that the Nightboat editors have chosen three manuscripts for publication in 2025 and 2026! Read more about each of the prize-winning manuscripts, and find a list of our finalists below. The winners of the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize are: B-Dragon Suite by Stine An Perennial Counterpart by Yongyu Chen Monk Fruit by Edward Salem Congratulations to our winners! Read more about each of the prize-winning manuscripts, and find a list of our finalists below. B-Dragon Suite by Stine An "In Stine An's radical debut, translation isn't a one-directional or objective…

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