Futurepoem
@futurepoem.bsky.social
Futurepoem is a NYC-based not-for-profit poetry press.
We champion innovative writing and writers.
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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
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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...
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Advance Praise for Object 7 ( ,a spirit loosely, ,bundled in a frame, )
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February 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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...
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 on Feb 28th 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:
www.futurepoem.com/about/annual...
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:
www.futurepoem.com/about/annual...
February 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Join us on Feb 28th 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:
www.futurepoem.com/about/annual...
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:
www.futurepoem.com/about/annual...
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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!
This event is free. RSVP is encouraged: cara.artsvp.com/b0856b
Can't wait to see you there!
January 28, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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!
This event is free. RSVP is encouraged: cara.artsvp.com/b0856b
Can't wait to see you there!
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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...
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...
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Recipient of the 2022 Other Futures Award, selected by Futurepoem Editors
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February 3, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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...
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!
This event is free. RSVP is encouraged: cara.artsvp.com/b0856b
Can't wait to see you there!
January 28, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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!
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 🖋📜
December 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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 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!
December 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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 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...
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...
December 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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...
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!
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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...
🔗 Give here: donorbox.org/supportfutur...
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
✨ 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...
🔗 Give here: donorbox.org/supportfutur...
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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.
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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!
Find them at goodpress.co.uk!
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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!
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...
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
Breaking the page the page breaks in undue shattering the bowl of its fragment is a resonant beam the breaking the physical well of internme...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"...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...
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...
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Isabel Sobral Campos, The Optogram of the Mind Is a Carnation / @futurepoem.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/isab...
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/isab...
Isabel Sobral Campos, The Optogram of the Mind Is a Carnation
Breaking the page the page breaks in undue shattering the bowl of its fragment is a resonant beam the breaking the physical well of internme...
robmclennan.blogspot.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Isabel Sobral Campos, The Optogram of the Mind Is a Carnation / @futurepoem.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/isab...
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/isab...
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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/...
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/...
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Small Press Distribution's Handpicked, June 2018
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October 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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/...
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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October 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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.
bit.ly/43f7ntS
bit.ly/43f7ntS
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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!
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Read POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT (published by @futurepoem.bsky.social) this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!
www.futurepoem.com/books/poems-...
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“Ronaldo Wilson’s Poems of the Black Object is a warning to anyone tempted to believe that in objectification lies freedom. Livid inside an apocalyptic negative capability, these poems are…
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October 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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-...
Read POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT (published by @futurepoem.bsky.social) this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!
www.futurepoem.com/books/poems-...
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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
September 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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
September 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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
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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 🌦️
Find this festival at Brooklyn Borough Hall & surrounding venues; it's free & open to the public! See you there.
brooklynbookfestival.org 🌦️
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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 🌦️
Find this festival at Brooklyn Borough Hall & surrounding venues; it's free & open to the public! See you there.
brooklynbookfestival.org 🌦️
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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
September 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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
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Celebrate new poetry! Two extraordinary book-length poems confronting violent colonial histories. The poets will read from their new books, followed by a conversation.
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@cunypoetics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @futurepoem.bsky.social
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September 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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
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
August 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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 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.
July 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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 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!
ENTRANCE by Kiana Shaley & AUTHENTICITY DRILL by Christopher Rey Perez!
June 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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!
ENTRANCE by Kiana Shaley & AUTHENTICITY DRILL by Christopher Rey Perez!