Nightboat Books

The press was founded in 2004 by Kazim Ali{{Cite web | url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/kazim-ali | title=Kazim Ali| date= May 30, 2020}} and Jennifer Chapis.{{Cite web | url=http://nightboat.org/content/history | title=About Nightboat Books|website=Nightboat Books}} In 2007, Stephen Motika became publisher.{{Cite web | url=http://www.nightboat.org/editor/stephen-motika |title = Stephen Motika|website=Nightboat Books}} Nightboat Books publishes manuscripts accepted through general submission and annually awards a $1,000 prize and publication for a book of poems.{{cite web |url=http://www.nightboat.org/content/about-prize |title=About the Prize {{!}} Nightboat Books |website=www.nightboat.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703040622/http://www.nightboat.org/content/about-prize |archive-date=July 3, 2013}}

Nightboat Books are distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.[http://www.cbsd.com Consortium Book Sales & Distribution.] The press has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts,[https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/Fall_2014_Grant_List_by_State_FINAL.pdf National Endowment for the Arts – 2014 Fall Grant Announcement], November 24, 2014. the New York State Council on the Arts,{{Cite web | url=http://nysca.org/grant_app/org_search.cfm?search_type=op&org_id=1004889&projfy=2010 |title = Nightboat Books, Inc.|website= NYSCA : New York State Council on the Arts}} the Jerome Foundation,{{cite web |url=https://www.clmp.org/faceout/ |title=CLMP {{!}} the Face Out Program |website=www.clmp.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513192615/http://clmp.org/faceout/ |archive-date=May 13, 2008}} the Fund for Poetry, and the Topanga Fund.{{Cite web|url=http://nightboat.org/order|title = Order FAQ|website=Nightboat Books}}

Notable authors published by Nightboat Books include Dawn Lundy Martin,{{Cite web | url=http://www.constantcritic.com/sueyeun_juliette_lee/life-in-a-box-is-a-pretty-life/ |title = Life in a Box is a Pretty Life |website= Constant Critic|first=Sueyeun Juliette |last=Lee|date=November 2, 2014}} Joanne Kyger, Cole Swensen,{{Cite web | url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-937658-41-0 |title = Fiction Book Review: Landscapes on a Train by Cole Swensen. Nightboat (UPNE, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-937658-41-0|website=Publishers Weekly|date=October 19, 2015}} Daniel Borzutzky, Wayne Koestenbaum,{{Cite web | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-pink-trance-notebooks-wayne-koestenbaum-20151203-story.html | title=Review: Wayne Koestenbaum's 'Pink Trance Notebooks'|first=Shoshana |last=Olidort| website=Chicago Tribune|date=December 3, 2015}} Etel Adnan,{{Cite web | url=http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=21004 |title =Galerie Lelong: Etel Adnan, April 2, 2015 – May 8, 2015|website= NY Arts Magazine |date =March 29, 2015}} and Fanny Howe.{{Cite web | url=http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2006_01_007450.php |title = Bookslut | the Lives of a Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken by Fanny Howe}}{{Cite web | url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/fanny-howe/ |title = Fanny Howe by Kim Jensen |website= BOMB Magazine|date=January 1, 2013|access-date=January 31, 2023}} Brian Blanchfield's book A Several World was the 2014 recipient of the James Laughlin Award{{Cite web | url=https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/james-laughlin-award | title=James Laughlin Award | Academy of American Poets|website=poets.org}} and was long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014_poetry_longlist_pr.pdf |title=2014 National Book Awards Longlist For Poetry |date=September 16, 2014|access-date=December 17, 2015 |archive-date=November 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123172333/http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014_poetry_longlist_pr.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/09/17/book-buzz-first-national-book-award-longlists-announced/15728953/ |title = National Book Award longlists announced|website = USA Today|first=Kelly|last=Kawler|date=September 17, 2014 }}{{Cite web | url=http://daily.jstor.org/small-press-poets-recognized-by-the-national-book-awards/ |title = Small-Press Poets Recognized by the National Book Awards|website=JSTOR Daily |first=Christopher|last= Schmidt |date = October 3, 2014}} Brandon Som's publication, The Tribute Horse, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for a debut book of poetry{{Cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-kingsley-tufts-poetry-award-angie-estes-20150225-story.html |title = Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award goes to Angie Estes|website = Los Angeles Times|first=Carolyn|last=Kellogg|date = February 25, 2015}} and was selected as a finalist for the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for poetry.{{Cite web |url=https://penusa.org/2015-award-winners-finalists |title=2015 Literary Award Winners & Finalists | PEN Center USA |access-date=December 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116011403/https://penusa.org/2015-award-winners-finalists |archive-date=January 16, 2016 |url-status=dead }} In 2013, Nightboat published Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, the first comprehensive poetry collection by trans and genderqueer authors,{{Cite web | url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/interviews/05/17/in-conversation-with-tc-olbert-and-trace-peterson-the-troubled-line/ |title = In Conversation with TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson: The Troubled Line |website= Lambda Literary|date = May 17, 2013}} which went on to be a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Anthologies.{{Cite web |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/ |title=Lambda Literary |access-date=December 23, 2015 |archive-date=April 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403104618/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/ |url-status=dead }}

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• Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
• Andrew Durbin's Skyland
• Bernadette Mayer's The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters
• Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue
• Camille Roy's Honey Mine: Collected Stories
• Dawn Lundy Martin's Discipline
• Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian's Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977–1997
• Édouard Glissant's Sun of Consciousness
• Etel Adnan's Shifting the Silence
• Fanny Howe's Radical Love: Five Novels
• Herve Guibert's My Manservant and Me
• Jackie Wang's The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void
• Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County
• Lou Sullivan, Ellis Martin, and Zach Ozm's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
• Martine Syms and Rocket Caleshu's The African Desperate
• Nathanaël's Pasolini’s Our
• Wayne Koestenbaum's Ultramarine, The Pink Trance Notebooks, and Ultramarine
• Emily Luan's 回 / Return{{colend}}

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