Nightboat Books

2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST!An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor.In A Queen in Bucks County, our protagonist Turner, who both is and is...

A collection of poems about starlight, survival, resilience, and acceptance after experiences of profound grief. Steeped in the bluest apocalypse light of solar collapse and the pale, ghostly light...

An evocative exploration of body and politics by one of our most exciting innovative writers. Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first...

An urgent and vital debut collection of poems that mixes ekphrasis with reportage to draw a new narrative of our present-day migration crisesAuthor: Asiya WadudPublisher: Nightboat BooksPublication...

Curb locates the wounds of domestic terrorism at myriad sites of racial, national, and religious difference within our post-9/11 political body.Author: Divya VictorPublisher: Nightboat...

A cycle of stories linking queer memory, activism, death, and art in a transpoetic history of desire and touch.Dances of Time and Tenderness is a bold, sensual cycle of transpoetic stories that blend...

Desgraciado: (The Collected Letters)Author: Angel DominguezPublisher: Nightboat BooksPublication Date: Feb 15, 2022Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A sumptuous lyric exploration of the pain & pleasure of embodiment amidst what feels like end times.Doomstead Days is a lyrical series of experiments in embodied ecological consciousness. Drafted on...

A virtuosic inquiry into the forms and uses of healing, from ancient and modern medicine to contemporary literature, ecology, and protest.In the era of the "chronic acute" long predating COVID-19,...

Eruptions Of Inanna: Justice, Gender, And Erotic PowerAuthor: Judy GrahnPublisher: Nightboat BooksPublication Date: May 25, 2021Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

This visceral, thrilling collection of stories by prescient lesbian writer Camille Roy explores what it takes to survive as a young sex and gender outlaw in the heart of America.Author: Camille...

A deft, musical debut poetry collection about the disabling effects of illness, rupture, and inheritance--informed both by Yoruba divinatory systems and violent Western medical understandings of the...

A collection by renowned poet and scholar Erica Hunt, spanning from the 1980s to the present.Author: Erica HuntPublisher: Nightboat BooksPublication Date: November 10, 2020Number of Pages: 208...

Life in a Box Is a Pretty LifeAuthor: Dawn Lundy MartinPublisher: Nightboat BooksPublication Date: January 03, 2015Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Newly discovered in the author's archives and published for the first time in the UK in 2023, this portrait of queer, working class London drifts from coffee shop to house party, in search of the...

Madness - 9781643621173Author: Gabriel Ojeda-SaguePublisher: Nightboat BooksPublication Date: Mar 15, 2022Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1643621173ISBN-13:...

A series of meditative long poems that ritualize perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non-human world.In Material Witness, the poet as human subject keeps vigil over the material world...

Sonically vibrant, polyphonic, typographic experimentation gleefully strategizes resistance and life under white supremacist capitalism in Kamden Hilliard's debut collection of poems, MissSettl. In...

A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century's most beloved French gay writers. My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written...

The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United States In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to...

Winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize (2015) No Dictionary of a Living Tongue is formidable in its explorations of art, citizenship, and life as a body amid the social, political, and electronic...

Sonically vivid, as empire and climate fall into catastrophe, these poems open portals where the living and the dead find one another in new communication From Shelley Memorial Award Winner Gillian...

A selection of extraordinarily condensed, emotionally complex, philosophical poems by one of the most unique and highly regarded 20th century Brazilian poets.In her lifetime, Orides Fontela resisted...

A visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record-keeping, featuring work by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mahogany L. Brown,...

A book of poems written out of a depressive episode, in which a devotional approach to music and desire reestablishes communication between the poet's body and the world. In pleasureis amiracle, the...

Collaged from journals and notebooks kept during a period of chronic illness, economic precarity, and heartbreak, Poem Bitten By a Man captures crisis by cutting up the record of a queer life lived...

A punk rock anti-memoir told through the eyes of a biracial Afrolatino punk academic. P?NK! follows Moose, an alienated academic and lead guitarist for Pipebomb!, as he navigates through spaces in...

An arch, precise collection of poems that casts world-historical hierarchies in an aspic mold and serves them back to us on a warped platter.Reading Prescribee is not dissimilar to the experience of...

A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey autobiography.Author: Brian BlanchfieldPublisher: Nightboat BooksPublication Date: Jan 04, 2016Number of Pages: 200...

Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, ? / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience. Rooted in the classical tradition of the...