Life and work

Motika is the publisher of Nightboat Books, a literary non-profit publisher based in New York's Upper Delaware River Valley

Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States.A Dutch expedition led by Henry Hudson in 1609 first mapped the river. The river was christened the South River in the New Netherland colony that followed, in contrast to the North River, as the Hudson River was then...

. He is the editor of Leland Hickman

Leland Hickman

Leland Hickman was an American poet, editor, actor, and literary magazine publisher. During his lifetime, Hickman was best known as the publisher and editor of the influential magazine Temblor which was noted for the publication of many east and west coast language-related poets...

's Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman (2009), and the author of the chapbook, "Arrival and At Mono" which was published by Sona Books in Fall 2007.

Motika's work has appeared in Eleven Eleven, The Boog City Reader 4, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The National Post of Canada, Another Chicago Magazine, and The Common Review.

The Field, his collaboration with visual artist Dianna Frid, was on view at Gallery 400

Gallery 400

Gallery 400 is a not-for-profit arts exhibition space within the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It was founded in 1983 to exhibit and support art, design and architecture. Over its history Gallery 400 has presented many exhibitions, lectures, and...

 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 2003. He is the director of public programs, exhibitions, and education at Poets House

Poets House

Founded in 1985 by the late Stanley Kunitz, two-time poet laureate of the United States, and arts administrator Elizabeth Kray, Poets House is a national literary center and poetry library based in New York City. With more than 50,000 volumes of poetry, the library is the premier independent poetry...

in lower Manhattan.

External links

• Nightboat Books Publisher's homepage
• The Multifarious Array: A poetry reading series with mad pronunciation featuring Stephen Motika, Sue Nacey, and Peter Spagnuolo.
• The Field features photos and information from Motika's collaboration with Dianna Frid