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Christopher Bursk
Of Christopher Bursk’s poetry, Joel Brouwer in The New York Times Book Review writes, If you’re looking for skeptical poststructuralist experiments with language’s unstable elements, look elsewhere. Bursk has bottomless…
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Diane Kistner
A GOOD WORKS PROJECT: All proceeds benefit the Malala Fund.On the one-year anniversary of 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai’s shooting by the Taliban for speaking out for the right of girls to…
As a talented young poet and small press editor/publisher (Ali Baba Press), Diane Kistner was right in the thick of the 1970s creative ferment that became the Atlanta Little Five…
Diane Furtney
WINNER OF THE 2017 FUTURECYCLE POETRY BOOK PRIZE. Each of Diane Furtney’s lyrical narratives in The Blue Man: Poems of the Ordinary shows us some odd or unnoticed aspect of…
SCIENCE AND by Diane Furtney is a moving, insightful, funny and exuberant collection of poems; sometimes the reader feels like an assistant at bold experiments in a wildly colored lab…
Tom Laichas
"A volume of poetry by Tom Laichas about the streets and neighborhoods of Venice, California"--
Jeanine Stevens
Jeanine Stevens is interested in origins. Intrigued and inspired by the elusive, the edge of things and fragments, these concerns come to life in INHERITOR, which includes portraits of women…
Ruth Bavetta
Ruth Bavetta gathers us around the table to partake of the meal of living. She serves a piquant simmer of togetherness that tastes of love, loss, and remembrance. This is…
Seth Jani
Seth Jani’s NIGHT FABLE explores the tenuous boundary between sleeping and waking, alternately at home in the solid world of natural forms and the shifting landscapes of dream. Its 70…
Ken Meisel
Ken Meisel’s book, Mortal Lullabies, is a gentle commemorative collection of poems that pay homage to themes of loss and mourning. In these poems, Meisel fixes steady attention on the…
Barbara Conrad
THERE IS A FIELD bears witness to many voices, many lives-and the interconnectedness of those lives with one another and with the natural world. Woven in the collection are the…
David Lawrence
In LIVING ON MADISON AVENUE (set, obviously, on Madison Avenue, a rich area of New York), Lawrence sews together snatches from his mature life and the hurt of his younger…
Domenic Scopa
How does someone transform a childhood trauma and its lifelong effects into a capacity to care for others? How can someone search for emotional clarity in the murky depths of…
Pat Daneman
After All by Pat Daneman is the chronicle of a woman’s ordinary life. Girls wonder what it is their mothers do all day, only to learn the truth when they…
James Crews
In HOW LIGHT LEAVES, James Crews gives readers what John Updike once famously called the human news. He writes with raw honesty about the loss of his father and an…
Jennifer Lagier
In Camille Abroad, the audience returns to the wry, irreverent, sensual world of Jennifer Lagier’s existential anti-hero, Camille. As she matures, her adventures range from sultry to bemused senior citizen…
Catherine McGuire
Catherine McGuire’s poetical portrait of our time, written with love and critical insight, reveals our flaws, heroics, quirks and challenges. From internet follies to The Love Song of G. Dubya…
George Bishop
ONE DANCE is a collection of poems sewn together by both a desperate search for the genuine and the realities that insist such a state can’t exist given the world…
Rachel Dacus
Arabesque: keyword of a new collection from poet/novelist Rachel Dacus. Arabesques, as in the looped swirls notating language, from its earliest days chiseled in stone, or the graceful curve of…
David Chorlton
THE POROUS DESERT is an extraordinarily rich collection of poems from the Arizona desert.
Neil Carpathios
Poems by Neil Carpathios. This book was a finalist in the 2009 FutureCycle Press Book Prize competition.
Chloe Viner
This chapbook of poems is a literary journey across America. Inspired by a real road trip taken after the loss of a loved one, each poem reflects a different place…
"A collection of poetry about marriage and loss by Ruth Bavetta"--
"Poetry collection combining earlier chapbooks on the Camille theme plus new material"--
William Greenway
At an age when most good gray poets are content to rest on their laurels, William Greenway has had to face new challenges, not only of many losses but of…
Seth Jani's Field Music is composed of fifty lyrical dispatches from the wilderness. Not just the wilderness as geography, but as an alternative psychological and spiritual framework outside the orderly…
Joan Colby
"Joan Colby's last volume of poetry, written as an examination of the death of her husband Alan Colby after 60 years of marriage; their tumultuous relationship over a long, full…
Dede Wilson
Dede Wilson accomplishes what few poets attempt. She wrestles grief to the ground, turning it into song. Her poems are unflinching. From …the shawl of darkness / the collar of…
Susan Purr
Whenever you look through a window, you never know what you might see. Peering out, you may find magic in the mundane, beauty in the simplest stone, or something truly…
Robert Cooperman
DRAFT BOARD BLUES is more than the story of a draft dodger. It’s about a war and a generation’s response to our debacle in Vietnam. As with all wars, old…
Joanne Lowery
As the only species aware of its mortality, people have always had a morbid preoccupation with death. Our agrarian forefathers anthropomorphized their fear into the Grim Reaper, whose swipe symbolized…
Scott Owens
Scott Owens describes his new volume of poetry: I grew up in two worlds: my father’s parents’ world of brick homes, city streets, shopping, and playgrounds; and my mother’s parents’…
Robert Collins
In Naming the Dead, Robert Collins takes the reader into the blind world here below, a world inhabited by sinners, saints, and strangers, who often are one and the same…
Richard Carr
Winner of the 2012 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. DEAD WENDY is a sequence of elegiac poems, reflections on broken relationships and unlikely friendships, lyrics-sung, shouted, wept-of life’s raw drama and…
Don Narkevic
In 1864, the doors of the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane opened in Weston, West Virginia. Although medical records have not been accessed, titles for the poems in this…
Katherine Riegel
The poems in WHAT THE MOUTH WAS MADE FOR seek to fill up the spaces created by loss and desire with images of open fields, of green, of kisses. What…
Just as a theme played by the Devil in a dream was turned into a sonata, in THE DEVIL’S SONATA day-to-day observations are turned into poems. In David Chorlton’s seventh…
In this clever, heartfelt collection of poems, Barbara Conrad celebrates the unreal of what is real: a dead father entering a coffee shop, an old lover on bended knees, cedar…
Lawrence Kessenich
From an elderly Spaniard building his own cathedral to a straight-laced woman mortified to have been born at Woodstock, from ill-fated love beneath a kerosene moon on the shores of…
Temple Cone
Poems by Temple Cone. No Loneliness is the winner of the 2009 FutureCycle Press Poetry Prize.
John Laue
To celebrate the fifth-year anniversary of the press’s first poetry chapbook publication, COLMA has been released as a full-length edition with new content and photos of the massive city of…
Judyth Hill
Rebecca Seiferle describes DAZZLING WOBBLE as a whirling dervish-a love poem written with the ecstasy of a postmodern Rumi. Veronica Golos calls the work a lush and lavish glossolalia. Hill…
As the title poem suggests, delays arrive exclusively on a personal level. (Not that some collective surface hasn’t been scratched; it has, but that surface is relatively inconsequential.) We must…
Cheryl Lachowski
In this thematically creative chapbook of poems, we learn the secrets of hardware, such as screws, fuses, hinges, pliers, and hammers, to name a few.
Judith A Rypma
In her latest chapbook, SEWING LESSONS, Judith Rypma weaves word tapestries that reveal and respond to the patterns of our lives. Weaving and embroidering have served as a metaphor for…
Barbara Bennett
In this chapbook, Barbara Bennett tiptoes into the afterlife to see what relatives, lovers, and friends have been up to and reports her findings. With a few sentences, each prose…
Joseph Hutchison
Joseph Hutchison’s BED OF COALS is a poetic sequence that tells a story of emotional crisis and recovery at the unsparing hand of Eros. Rooted in transgression, the poems honor…
Joel Peckham
This collection of narrative poems is a meditation on the life and music of one of the truly great artists of the twentieth century and an impressionistic exploration of the…
