October & November curated by NIGHTBOAT BOOKS

October 3

Ken Chen & Cici Wu with Ju Ly Ban

Ken Chen is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College. His poetry collection, Juvenilia, was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award by Louise Glück. He is currently working on his next book, tentatively titled The Encounters, which follows his journey to the underworld to rescue his father and his encounters there with those destroyed by colonialism.

Cici Wu is a New York based artist who was born in Beijing and grew up in Hong Kong. Reducing filmmaking to its most humble and elemental components, she creates drawings, objects, videos, and installations which extend the imaginative and structural premises of cinematic language across a wide range of media.

Ju Ly Ban is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches composition at Baruch College. Her research brings Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s archives into conversation with Black feminism and queer kinship.

October 10

Stine An & Antonio Ochoa

Stine An is a poet, translator, and performer based in New York City. Her publications include Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung, Winter Night Rabbit Worries by Yoo Heekyung, S_MMER CR_SH, and Comet & Star written by Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee. Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite, won the Nightboat Poetry Prize.

Antonio Ochoa was born in Mexico City. He is the author Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo, as well as two previous collections of poetry, pulsos and El toro de Hiroshima. He is the host of the podcast Texts For Nothing: Conversations with Poets.

October 17

julie ezelle patton & Cecilia Vicuña

julie ezelle patton is the author of the chapbooks Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake, “Car Tune,”& Not So Bella Donna, and The Flower Poem. In 2024, a special issue of Chicago Review was devoted to her four-decade poetic, performative, and visual practice. A significant collection of her work, J Walking Through the Alphabet, will be out in early 2027.

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist, and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. The author of more than 30 volumes of art and poetry published in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including Educate, Libro Venado/ Deer Book, and Saborami. She received the Gold Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2022 at the 59th Venice Biennale.

October 24

Joon Oluchi Lee & Aurora Mattia

Joon Oluchi Lee lives and writes in femininity and feminism. He is the author of Tricyclist, Neotenica, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, 94, and Lace Sick Bag. He is Professor in Literary Arts & Studies at Rhode Island School of Design, and, with his partner Roddy, co-parent of their rescue dogs Nella and Sami.

Aurora Mattia is from Texas and lives in New York. Her debut novel, The Fifth Wound (2023), and her sophomore collection, Unsex Me Here (2025), were both published by Nightboat Books. Her stories have appeared in various magazines, as well as in exhibitions at the RISD Museum and the Renaissance Society, accompanying portraits by Elle Pérez. Her second novel, Seven Come Eleven, is forthcoming from Nightboat in April 2028.

October 31

Tisa Bryant & Soham Patel

Tisa Bryant is the author of Residual, a nonfiction assemblage of the interiors of grief, the home as archive, and the mystery of mothers, published in 2026 by Nightboat Books. She is also the author of Unexplained Presence and co-editor of the three-volume, cross-referenced literary journal, The Encyclopedia Project. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa.

Soham Patel is the author of The Daughter Industry, as well as all one in the end/water, ever really hear it, winner of the Subito Prize, and to afar from afar. They serve as associate editor at FENCE Magazine.

November 7

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge & Jay Gao

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including A Treatise on Stars; Hello, the Roses; Empathy; and I Love Artists. Her collaborations include Endocrinology with Kiki Smith and Hiddenness with Richard Tuttle. In 2021, she was awarded Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and in 2026 she was the recipient of the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry. She lives in northern New Mexico and New York City.

Jay Gao is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, living in New York City. He is the author of The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber. His debut collection, Imperium, was the winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award, and a Somerset Maugham Award.

November 14

Benjamin Krusling & Chang Yuchen

Benjamin Krusling is a writer and artist based in Brooklyn. He is the author of Glaring, and his second poetry collection, Fear of God Essentials, is forthcoming in the spring. Recent criticism has appeared in The Paris Review and Screen Slate, and recent sound and video work has been performed and screened at Anthology Film Archives, Public Space One, SculptureCenter, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and other venues.

Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner—writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment (see Use Value, 2016–2026), and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. Her ongoing project Coral Dictionary (2019–) is a writing system based on coral debris. Through reading visually, associatively, and emotively, a feral literacy takes shape.

November 21

Valerie Hsiung & Matt Longabucco

Valerie Hsiung is a poet who writes between worlds, where language meets ritual and abolition meets afterlife. She is the author of eight full-length books, including The pedestrian, The Naif, The only name we can call it now is not its only name, To love an artist, and outside voices, please. She teaches writing at the limits of language at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.

Matt Longabucco is the author of poetry collections The Hummingbird and Heroic Dose, and of M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain. He teaches writing, innovative pedagogy, and critical theory at New York University’s Liberal Studies Program, and at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking.

December & January curated by ROOF BOOKS: Lonely Christopher & James Sherry

December 5

Roof 50th Anniversary Group Reading—Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Sol Cabrini, Miles Champion, Drew Gardner, Paolo Javier, erica kaufman, Melanie Neilson, Jena Osman, John Reed, David Rothenberg, Lytle Shaw, Ron Silliman, Rod Smith, Edwin Torres, Barrett Watten

December 12

Roof 50th Anniversary Group Reading—Chris Campanioni, Lonely Christopher, Robert Fitterman, Nada Gordon, Michael Gottlieb, Susan Landers, Holly Melgard, Marc Nasdor, Evelyn Reilly, Sarah Riggs, Kim Rosenfield, Cecilia Stelzer, Fiona Templeton,

A 50th Anniversary limited edition of ROOF Magazine XI will be available for sale at these events.

December 19

Carla Harryman  & Adeena Karasick

Carla Harryman’s recent books include Cloud Cantata, Sue in Berlin and Sue à Berlin (trans. Sabine Huynh) and a volume in Russian and English, Various Devices: Selected Writings (1979-2023), ed. Vladimir Feschenko. Harryman’s plays and performance scores have been presented nationally and internationally. Litmus published a digital archive of her 1994 work Memory Play on Open Poetics.

Adeena Karasick is author of 18 books of poetry, poetics, and media theory. Winner of the Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form, League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award, 3-time recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award, Poet Laureate of the Institute of General Semantics, she teaches at Pratt Institute. Her archive is at Simon Fraser University.

January 9

Bob Holman & Trace Peterson

Bob Holman, founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, recently performed his solo show LIFE POEM with Mivos Quartet, his biography told through poetry. His chapbook, WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM, is 24 poems with links to performance streams. He represented the US in the 2025 Biennale, performing WE ARE THE DINOSAUR 30 times on the streets and canals of Venice.

Trace Peterson’s newest book of poems is The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep which won the Alma Book Award and is a Finalist for Foreword Reviews 2026 Book of the Year Award in Women’s Studies. She currently teaches English and Women’s Studies at UConn.

January 16

Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough & Amie Zimmerman

Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough (b. Richmond, VA, April ‘91) lives in Brooklyn and works for the DOE. He is the author of The Western and Object 7 [,a subject loosely, ,bundled in a frame,] and most recently from Roof 23 Experiments.

Amie Zimmerman is the author of four chapbooks, including Compliance and, with artist Samantha Yun Wall, 31 Days/ The Self. Alongside Hajar Hussaini and Matthew Klane, she co-curates the reading series Salon Salvage. Zimmerman is from Portland, Oregon, and lives in upstate New York, where she works as a hairstylist, labor organizer, and PhD candidate. Her book False Spring was just published by Roof.

January 23

Charles Bernstein & Bob Perelman

Charles Bernstein’s Roof/Segue books are Controlling Interests; The Occurrence of Tune, with Susan Bee; The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy; Islets/Irritations (rpt., 1992); and The Course, with Ted Greenwald. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (1978 - 1981), edited with Bruce Andrews, was distributed with Segue; Legend, with Andrews, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman, was published in association with Segue.

Bob Perelman has published Chatty Fossils; Jack and Jill in Troy; Iflife; Playing Bodies, in collaboration with painter Francie Shaw; and Ten to One: Selected Poems. His critical books are The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History; The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky; Modernism the Morning After. His work can be heard on Penn Sound.

January 30

Brandon Brown & Chris Campanioni

Brandon Brown is the author Work and The Four Seasons. He translated the extant works of the troubadour Raimbaut d’Aurenga, Joy Is My Hotel. In 2014, Roof published Top 40 and in 2026 Top 40 (Another Volume). He is a co-editor at Krupskaya Books and publishes the zine Panda’s Friend. He lives in Richmond, CA.

Chris Campanioni won the 2026 Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work. His writing has been recognized with the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary work, Pushcart Prize, International Latino Book Award, and Academy of American Poets College Prize. His books include the poetry collections from Roof, Windows 85 and Rolling Windows. He is writer in residence at Pace University in New York City.