Join us for our benefit party, hosted by kurimanzutto gallery, on Thurs, 4/23, 6:00pm. Your raffle ticket entitles you to admission and one original scribble, manuscript page, note, etc. donated by writers, artists, and performers!
More info here: www.futurepoem.com/about/annual...
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Submissions are now open for our Open Reading Period from March 10-April 10, 2026!
Read more about this year’s Guest Editors, our Open Reading Period, and SUBMIT on our website at: www.futurepoem.com/submit/open-...
Join us on April 23rd for the Futurepoem benefit party!
We'll be raffling original scribble, manuscript page, note, etc. donated by writers, artists, and performers to raise money for Futurepoem's operations.
For more information + tickets, see here:
tinyurl.com/futurepoem
"De’Ath’s collection interrogates how institutional logics make institutional structures appear as ingrained facts of the world." —Asa Drake
Read Asa Drake's full review of Amy De'Ath's Not a Force of Nature at Poetry North West!
Full review here: shorturl.at/iPmEW
Join us on April 23rd for the Futurepoem benefit party!
We'll be raffling original scribble, manuscript page, note, etc. donated by writers, artists, and performers to raise money for Futurepoem's operations.
For more information + tickets, see here:
tinyurl.com/futurepoem
Read a poetry collection from @futurepoem.bsky.social this #BlackHistoryMonth!
In OBJECT 7 ( ,A SPIRIT LOOSELY, ,BUNDLED IN A FRAME, ), Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough reports “live on the minuscule and maximal repercussions of the manmade.” —Marwa Helal
www.futurepoem.com/books/object...
Join us next Sun, Feb 8th at 4pm to celebrate the book launch of Nazareth Hassan's "Slow mania", along with readings from Hassan, Philip Kenner, Elliot Reed, Benedict Nguyêñ, and Charles Theonia!
This event is free. RSVP is encouraged: cara.artsvp.com/b0856b
Can't wait to see you there!
Read makalani bandele’s (JOPAPPY & THE SENTENCE-MAKERS ARE) EPONYMOUS AS FUNK this #BlackHistoryMonth!
This @futurepoem.bsky.social collection features “discursive lyric arranged and produced by poems written in bandele’s invented prose poetic form, the unit.” www.futurepoem.com/books/eponym...
Join us next Sun, Feb 8th at 4pm to celebrate the book launch of Nazareth Hassan's "Slow mania", along with readings from Hassan, Philip Kenner, Elliot Reed, Benedict Nguyêñ, and Charles Theonia!
This event is free. RSVP is encouraged: cara.artsvp.com/b0856b
Can't wait to see you there!
Check out these two excerpts from N/A Oparah and makalani bandele at The Brooklyn Rail! Link in bio for the full poems 🖋📜
Happy pub day to Nazarath Hassan's Slow mania - now available at futurepoem.com/books/slow-mania!
Thank you to Everything Studio, HR Hegnauer Design Studio, Ahana Ganguly, Aiden Farrell, Gabriela Jáuregui, Shiv Kotecha, and Ronaldo V. Wilson, and all who made Slow mania possible!
Thank you Sianne Ngai for including Futurepoem's Not a Force of Nature by Amy De’Ath in Artforum's Best of 2025 Books list!
To see the full list, and read Ngai's full review of Not a Force of Nature, see here: www.artforum.com/lists/best-o...
Join us this Friday from 3-7:30pm at the Poetry Corp. HQ along with Winter Editions, Litmus Press, World Poetry Books, and Belladonna* Collaborative for some readings (both literary & tarot) and a general great time!
✨ We’ve had such a great year with you, and we’re looking forward to all 2026 has in store! As we near the end of this year, please consider making a donation to support our work in platforming innovative works of contemporary poetry and prose!
🔗 Give here: donorbox.org/supportfutur...
BIO: Kiana Shaley is the author of Entrance, forthcoming w/ @futurepoem.bsky.social & poems in @fuguejournal.bsky.social, The Racket & other publications. She teaches at California State University, Long Beach and at @smcedu.bsky.social, serves as Poetry Editor for Expo & lives in LA.
Downsides by N/A Oparah and Optogram of the Mind by Isabel Sobral Campos is now available from Good Press U.K., Glasgow!
Find them at goodpress.co.uk!
"...Campos offers the prose and the lyric almost as point and counterpoint, allowing each to bounce off the other..." —Rob McLennan
Great review from Rob McLennan on THE OPTOGRAM OF THE MIND IS A CARNATION by Isabel Sobral Campos.
Read here: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/isab...
Isabel Sobral Campos, The Optogram of the Mind Is a Carnation / @futurepoem.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/isab...
Read a poetry collection from @futurepoem.bsky.social this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!
According to Yasmin Adele Majeed, Jerika Marchan’s SWOLE draws from her experience of Hurricane Katrina and takes in “the whole stretch of New Orleans on an intimate level.”
www.futurepoem.com/books/swole/...
Pre-order Slow mania by Nazareth Hassan! Selected from Futurepoem's open reading period, Slow mania follows isolated citydwellers in pursuit of satisfaction. Nazareth Hassan is a writer, director, musician, and performer. Slow mania is their second book.
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According to Claudia Keelan, Ronaldo V. Wilson’s collection “is a warning to anyone tempted to believe that in objectification lies freedom.”
Read POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT (published by @futurepoem.bsky.social) this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!
www.futurepoem.com/books/poems-...
No book has impacted me more this years than Isabel Sobral Campos'The Optogram of the Mind is a Carnation. An honest undressing of dictatorship and colonial history, Optogram is one of those unafraid books of poetry directly engaging a quagmire. Check it out at @futurepoem.bsky.social
Tonight! Double book launch at @poetshouse.bsky.social 7pm with N/A Oparah and Isabel Sobral Campos with Christopher Rey Perez, Mirene Arsanios, and Aiden Farrell
FENCE & FUTUREPOEM will share table 327 at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 21st from 10 AM through 6 PM! @futurepoem.bsky.social
Find this festival at Brooklyn Borough Hall & surrounding venues; it's free & open to the public! See you there.
brooklynbookfestival.org 🌦️
cry ringette! and let slip the skates of gentle sportsmanship: wee one has practice, so working through new titles by Ken Norris, Isabel Sobral Campos and N/A Oparah, / @futurepoem.bsky.social
Poetry Reading and Conversation with Cristina Pérez Díaz and Isabel Sobral Campos Wed, Sep 17, 2025 6:30 PM–8:00 PM Martin Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Registration required. A blue and white figurative image captioned: Detail from cover art by Suzanne Goldenberg from Cristina Pérez Díaz's book "From the Founding of the Country"
Celebrate new poetry! Two extraordinary book-length poems confronting violent colonial histories. The poets will read from their new books, followed by a conversation.
www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-rea...
@cunypoetics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @futurepoem.bsky.social
Next Wednesday 8/20 at @phbookstores.bsky.social a salon style evening of poetry and jazz @clmporg.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social
It's almost time to submit to the Other Futures Award!
We're looking for a full-length work that we think challenges conventions of genre & language, content & form. We want writing that imagines new lived or literary possibilities and questions established paradigms in poetry.
We’re thrilled to announce our selections from Futurepoem’s 2025 Open Reading Period! 🎉 This year’s winners were selected by our guest editorial panel, Courtney Bush, Abraham Cruzvillegas, and Matt Longabucco:
ENTRANCE by Kiana Shaley & AUTHENTICITY DRILL by Christopher Rey Perez!
Add poetry from @futurepoem.bsky.social to your TBR!
The poems in Jerika Marchan’s SWOLE take in “the whole stretch of New Orleans on an intimate level—it’s people, it’s music, it’s idiom, and it’s bloat.” — Yasmin Adele Majeed #APAHeritageMonth www.futurepoem.com/books/swole/...