Futurepoem Books
American publishing house
Futurepoem Books is an American not-for-profit press based in New York City. Futurepoem was founded by Dan Machlin in 2002 and focuses on publishing innovative poetry, prose and hybrid literature. The press has a rotating editorial board.
Three books are published each year: two from the open reading period and one winner of the Other Futures Award. Each year three new editors select books sent in during the presses open reading period. Winners of the Other Futures Award receive publication with a standard royalty contract, an honorarium of $1000, and 25 author copies.
Futurepoem has received funding from The New York State Council on the Arts Literature Program and National Endowment for the Arts Literature program.
Personnel
Dan Machlin, Founding Editor, Poet & Essayist
Mónica de la Torre, Board President, Former Senior Editor of BOMB Magazine
Jay Sanders, Board Treasurer, Executive Director at Artists Space
Mimi Gross, Board Member, Visual Artist
Robert Fittmerman, Board Member
Monica Manzutto, Board Member, Co-Founder Kurimanzutto
Former
Amy Sillman, Board Member
Jeremy Sigler, Board Member
Publications
2021-2026
In Order to Extract the Memory It Is of Course Necessary to Build the Room – Susana Plotts-Pineda (2026)
Slow Mania – Nazareth Hassan (2025)
The Optogram of the Mind Is a Carnation – Isabel Sobral Campos (2025)
The Downsides – N/A Oparah (2024)
(jopappy & the sentence-makers are) eponymous as funk – makalani bandele (2024)
Flag – Imani Elizabeth Jackson (2024)
Not a Force of Nature – Amy De'Ath (2024)
In Lieu of Solutions – Violet Spurlock (2023)
A Reaction to Someone Coming In – Wendy Lotterman (2023)
u know how much i hate being alone in social situations// – Stephon Lawrence (2023)
Nerve Curriculum – Manuel Paul López (2023)
Making Water – Laura Jaramillo (2022)
Planet Drill – Jessica Laser (2022)
Transverse – Lindsay Choi (2021)
2011-2020
Wild Peach – S*an D. Henry-Smith (2020)
The Nancy Reagan Collection – Maxe Crandall (2020)
Near, At – Jennifer Soong (2019)
G – Emmalea Russo (2018)
NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) – Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman (2018)
SWOLE – Jerika Marchan (2018)
MyOther Tongue – Rosa Alcalá (2017)
The Sissies – Evan Kennedy (2016)
Of Being Dispersed – Simone White (writer) Simone White (2016)
Solar Maximum – Sueyeun Juliette Lee (2015)
Site Cite City – David Buuck (2015)
deadfalls and snares – Samantha Giles (2014)
Troy, Michigan – Wendy S. Walters (2014)
The Crisis of Infinite Worlds – Dana Ward (2013)
The Story of My Accident is Ours – Rachel Levitsky (2013)
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