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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: futurepoem.com/submit/open-re…

"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

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

Don’t forget to browse our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list for year-round reading recs from @futurepoem, @masonjarpress, @triohousepress, @HangingLooseNY, @fifthwheelpress, @Sinister_Wisdom, @AliceJamesBooks, @Colorado_Review, and more publishers! clmp.org/news/a-reading…

Read a poetry collection from @futurepoem 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 futurepoem.com/books/object-7…

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 See you there!

We are really grateful for everyone who has supported us this year. If you would still like to help sustain our books, submissions opportunities and programs next year, please donate at donorbox.org/supportfuturep…

Check out these two excerpts from @naoparah and makalani bandele at @TheBrooklynRail! Link in bio for the full poems 🖋📜

Happy pub day to Nazarath Hassan's Slow mania - now available at futurepoem.com/books/slow-man…! 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: artforum.com/lists/best-of-…

Join us this Friday from 3-7:30pm at the Poetry Corp. HQ along with Winter Editions, Litmus Press, World Poetry Books, and @bella_collab for some readings (both literary & tarot) and a general great time!

Join us this Friday from 3-7:30pm at the Poetry Corp. HQ along with Winter Editions, Litmus Press, World Poetry Books, and @bella_collab for some readings (both literary & tarot) and a general great time!

✨ We’ve had such a great year with you, and 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/supportfuturep…

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/isabel…

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

Tonight! at @poetshouse Double book launch with Isabel Sobral Campos and @naoparah with Christopher Rey Perez, Mirene Arsanios, and Aiden Farrell, 7 pm Free

Last day to submit! futurepoem.submittable.com/submit