Futurepoem Books

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
 * Monica de la Torre, Senior Editor of BOMB Magazine
 * Jeremy Sigler, Associate Editor

2011-2020
• 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 (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)

• Anarch. – Frances Richard (2012)

• The Malady of the Century – Jon Leon (2012)

• Sherwood Forest – Camille Roy (2011)

• Late in the Antenna Fields – Alan Gilbert (2011)

• The Source – Noah Eli Gordon (2011)

2002-2010
• Delinquent – Mina Pam Dick (2009)

• Poems of a Black Object  – Ronaldo Wilson (2009)

• Your Country is Great  – Ara Shirinyan (2008)

• Traffic and Weather – Marcella Durand (2008)

• Threads – Jill Magi (2007)

• Murmur  – Laura Mullen (2006)

• The External Combustion Engine  – Michael Ives (2005)

• Mad Science in Imperial City  – Shanxing Wang (2005)

• Ghosts by Albert Ayler, Ghosts by Albert Ayler  – Merry Fortune (2004)

• The Escape  – Jo Ann Wasserman (2003)

• Under the Sun  – Rachel Levitsky (2002)

• Some Mantic Daemons  – Garrett Kalleberg (2002)