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

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.

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...

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

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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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...

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Advance Praise for Object 7 ( ,a spirit loosely, ,bundled in a frame, )

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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!

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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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

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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Isabel Sobral Campos, The Optogram of the Mind Is a Carnation / @futurepoem.bsky.social ; 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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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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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

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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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

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.