Hard Hat Reading Series: Asiya Wadud

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In this video for the Poets House Hard Hat Reading series, Asiya Wadud, author of No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body (Nightboat Books, 2021), reads from Inger Christensen’s alphabet (New Directions, 2001), translated from the Danish by Susanna Nied, followed by her own poem “L.”

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A Quarantine Concert With Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta

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In this 2020 video, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta reads a selection of their poems for the Quarantine Concert series produced by Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. Luboviski-Acosta’s second book, La Movida (Nightboat Books, 2022), is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Angel Dominguez Reads at the Poetry Center

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In this 2021 reading at the Poetry Center in San Francisco State University, Angel Dominguez reads two letters to Diego de Landa from their first poetry collection, Desgraciado (the collected letters) (Nightboat Books, 2022), which is featured in Page One in the March/April 2022 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Erica Hunt for the New Social Environment

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In this installment of the New Social Environment series for the Brooklyn Rail recorded in April, Charles Bernstein speaks with Erica Hunt about unpacking language and how writers have reimagined ways to communicate amongst each other during the pandemic. Hunt talks about her new poetry collection, Jump the Clock (Nightboat Books, 2020), in Ten Questions.

Marwa Helal

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“if you ask me where i come from i have to converse with broken wings.” Marwa Helal reads two poems from her debut poetry collection, Invasive species (Nightboat Books, 2019), at the Bronx Museum of the Arts for the Poets for Puerto Rico benefit reading series. Helal is featured in “Poetic Lenses: Our Fifteenth Annual Look at Debut Poetry” in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Eleni Sikelianos

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“That is what my grandfather, Glafkos, must have felt like. / Wandering the hillsides and down to the sea while his parents labored...” In Delphi 1927, a multimedia performance by Eleni Sikelianos, the poet examines her family history and her great grandparents’ efforts to revive the Delphic Festivals. Sikelianos’s collection What I Knew (Nightboat Books, 2019) is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Silk Poems

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“I wanted to think about how silk would inform the structure of a poem.” Jen Bervin talks about a three-year exploratory project studying and creating interdisciplinary work around silk and poetry, and reads from her collection Silk Poems (Nightboat Books, 2017), which is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Paleontology by Samiya Bashir

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“I am a wooly mammoth stuffed into a cab. I bear / the long silence of my extinction through the rearview.” Samiya Bashir, whose poetry collection Field Theories (Nightboat Books, 2017) is featured in Page One in the May/June 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, reads her poem “Paleontology.”

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