Night Painting is a play (noun and verb) with words. The poet observes the minute and the abstract yielding short phases that are pictures with a proclivity for the quotidian: ‘skimming all the while with a slotted spoon’, ‘the cake is inverted’, ‘blowing bags into the trees.’ Anagnopoulos is looking, changing, asking. Objects exist proffering beauty and solace. You move on, filling our eyes.
— Nancy Shaver
Kostas Anagnopoulos was born in Chicago on November 20, 1974. His first book of poetry, Moving Blanket, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse (2010). He is the proprietor of two stores in Oak Hill, New York: Pidgin and Norman Hasselriis. In the long-standing tradition of poets publishing poets, he runs the small press Insurance Editions, through which he publishes the work of peers he admires. Anagnopoulos also volunteers at his local library, where he leads Poet Hour, a free intergenerational reading and writing program. He divides his time between Rensselaerville, New York, and Jackson Heights, Queens, where he lives with his husband and daughter.
Printed in January 2026 by BookMobile in Minneapolis. Typeset in Sabon, a descendant of the types of Claude Garamond designed by Jan Tschichold in 1964. Design by Kyle Schlesinger with cover art by Katrien de Blauwer.
Paperback. 178 pages.
