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Futurepoem is a NYC-based not-for-profit poetry press. We champion innovative writing and writers. linktr.ee/futurepoem

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FENCE & @futurepoem.bsky.social will share TABLE 343 at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 27th from 10 AM through 6 PM. Free & open to the public! We’ll have books and magazines from our respective presses for purchase, & we'd love to see you there. 🌞 brooklynbookfestival.org
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
another round of Aoife’s ukulele lessons begins, so taking the opportunity to open Susana Plotts-Pineda’s poetry debut from Futurepoem, // @futurepoem.bsky.social
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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Published today: Richard Hamilton's review of Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough’s OBJECT 7! bigother.com/2026/08/18/a... Cc: @futurepoem.bsky.social
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Alchemical Rituals Against the Void: A Review of Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough’s Object 7
By Richard Hamilton   Phenomenology happens along a continuum at the crossroad between chaos and the cosmos. By one account, it is characterized as “the structure of various types of experienc…
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Submissions to Futurepoem’s Other Futures Award close on 8/15. Send us your work! futurepoem.submittable.com/submit
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We are excited to announce the selections from Futurepoem’s 2026 Open Reading Period, by Daniel Owen and Adrienne Raphel! Thanks to our guest editors Cole Swensen, Brandon Brown, and Cristina Pérez Díaz. @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social @clmporg.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Transatlantic Influences Part 3: In Black and White, and mostly in France, a dialogue between Leonard Schwartz and Allen S. Weiss The latest post in Leonard Schwartz’s Transatlantic Schwartz’s series for Future-feed.net our online extension.
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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-...
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"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
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What's a working class-poem?: On Amy De'Ath's Not a Force of Nature | Poetry Northwest
"In bringing the reader to a generative and speculative space, Not a Force of Nature explores the potential of “the working class poem,” and what might come after, in a collection deeply rooted in res...
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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...
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Advance Praise for Object 7 ( ,a spirit loosely, ,bundled in a frame, )
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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!
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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...
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Recipient of the 2022 Other Futures Award, selected by Futurepoem Editors
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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!
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Check out these two excerpts from N/A Oparah and makalani bandele at The Brooklyn Rail! Link in bio for the full poems 🖋📜
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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!
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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...
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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!
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
✨ 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...
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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.
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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!
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"...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...
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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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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Isabel Sobral Campos, The Optogram of the Mind Is a Carnation / @futurepoem.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/isab...
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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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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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/...
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Small Press Distribution's Handpicked, June 2018
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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-...
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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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Christopher Ayala @rattysnake.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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 Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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 🌦️
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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
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"
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Next Wednesday 8/20 at @phbookstores.bsky.social a salon style evening of poetry and jazz @clmporg.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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.
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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!
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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/...
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Small Press Distribution's Handpicked, June 2018
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
In Lindsay Choi’s poems, “music, mathematics, philosophical logic, and lyric convention come in and out of relation to press upon questions of form and meaning-making.” A @futurepoem.bsky.social collection for #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth: www.futurepoem.com/books/Transv...
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Transverse weaves between languages and forms, cultivating the questions and lacunae that emerge in their encounter. In the three parts that make up the book, music, mathematics, philosophical logic,…
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Tomorrow at Segue @afteriwasdead.bsky.social and John Keene
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Today at segue and on zoom!
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Futurepoem authors Ronaldo Wilson and Isabel Sobral Campos at Segue last week!
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This Saturday in NYC!
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Join us this Saturday at Segue Series at Artists Space!
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This Saturday in nyc at Artists Space @clmporg.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social
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Darby Price @darbyprice.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A dream to read last night with all the wonderful writers from Switchback, @futurepoem.bsky.social, & @meeklingpress.bsky.social!! (Also great to meet friends like @readcook.bsky.social IRL!) Thanks to all who came out ✨📚💙
Darby stands in front of a microphone, a red curtain behind her. She wears ripped jeans, a white top, and bright pink heels.
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
So excited to curate April and May of the Segue Foundation reading series at Artist Spaces in NYC
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Open Reading Period deadline extended to this Saturday, Mar 22! We're looking for writing that expands the potential for poetic form, language, content, and process. Our 2025 guest editors are Abraham Cruzvillegas, Matt Longabucco, and Courtney Bush. More info at futurepoem.submittable.com
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Another session of wee daughter’s weekly ukulele lessons: going through three new poetry titles by Futurepoem! Imani Elizabeth Jackson, makalani bandele and Tilghman A. Goldsborough, / @futurepoem.bsky.social
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Submissions are open TODAY! futurepoem.com/submit
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Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Now available for Pre-Order at @asterismbooks.bsky.social - Flag by Imani Elizabeth Jackson "Stark, lush, and streaming, these poems show me how spirit isn't just born, it's made." — Benjamin Krusling asterismbooks.com/product/flag...
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