FutureCycle Press

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...

Evenings When the SunAuthor: John W. Schouten, Diane KistnerPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: February 01, 2021Number of Pages: 86 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Xiaoly Li's EVERY SINGLE BIRD RISING is a breathtaking journey through decades-long life and cultural experiences. This poetry collection paints a vivid picture of hope, strength, and survival...

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...

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 Points "scene." She...

Did you know that a pig's orgasm lasts thirty minutes? Or that each year more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears? How about that 83% of people believe in a perfect day? Welcome to...

Poet and artist, Larry D. Thacker's third full collection of poetry, Feasts of Evasion, walks hand-in-hand with us into the daily lands of both the mundane and the mind-blowing details of living...

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...

The voices of brilliant women from the world's past resonate in thought-provoking poetry based on Scheller's extensive research into 36 great women's circumstances and accomplishments. In diverse...

FLEEING BACK chronicles travels through the mental and geographical landscapes of the world and of the spirit. The poems reveal the sensual, sometimes dark, sometimes lush and exotic topography of...

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 food as more than recipes...

In this lyrical chapbook of poetry, Kathleen Brewin Lewis writes of a hunger to know and connect with the natural environment, to "crack the botanic bones of this evergreen world, pry ripe marrow."...

Fort LonesomeAuthor: Timothy KrcmarikPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: Feb 03, 2020Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942371950ISBN-13: 9781942371953

Don Thompson is a native of the southern San Joaquin Valley where he has lived most of his life, writing about its unique environment. In From Here On: Four Sunday Drives, he revives an old...

In FUGITIVE PIGMENTS, Ruth Bavetta brings together the worlds of poetry and art. These are ekphrastic poems, instructive poems, poems riffing off the principles of art-the art of living, of shading,...

"A Chevy up on blocks is only an eyesoreto the faithless."-from "Husks"In GOD'S BICYCLE, Joel Peckham's fifth collection of poetry, he offers a spiritual road mix for 21st-century America. In poems...

This collection by Don Boes features quick shifts in tone, subject, and language as a way to discover and track the moving targets of life. Each poem offers an experience based in serious wordplay...

Our memory is the only help that is left to them. Theodor Adorno's words, the epigraph of Judy Kronenfeld's poem, "Saving the Dead," epitomize a central theme of her elegiac, yet life-affirming...

Bill Glose's HALF A MAN lays bare the impact of war on the individual soldier. The book's first half, about war and life in the military, tells of the sometimes harrowing, sometimes maddening, but...

This collection of poems by Mary Ricketson digs deep into the earth, unafraid to bite into hardship, willing to confess regret and shame, and ready to celebrate details of ordinary life. By words of...

Hour of the Green LightAuthor: David Ruekberg, Diane KistnerPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: January 04, 2021Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In HOUSE YOU CANNOT REACH, a mother's voice is reimagined, amplified, and permitted to ventilate both forbidden grievance and private passion. Simultaneously wistful and excoriating, she cherishes...

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 ever-changing, yet consciously...

This is a collection of meditative spiritual poems. Martin Willitts, Jr. lives by the simple Quaker principle of "God is everywhere, in everyone," seeing both the good and bad, but also the awe of...

In I Think I Know You, Julie Gard explores the ways we struggle to understand each other's hearts and histories, along with our own. These prose poems speak of deep connection and tragicomic gaps in...

No one who is serious about poetry should be without a copy of Imagine That. Give it to friends who love life, those who have taken a meandering path, and those who can laugh at themselves. Get ready...

An urgent question drives this book: what is it to speak for another? Technology today often makes us feel as if we can speak for or as another. But this is an illusion. It is crucial that we remain...

IN THE SHADOW OF PARADISE by Jane Ellen Glasser opens with an epigraph by Rumi, "The wound is the place where the light enters you," a theme resonant throughout her seventh collection. Subjects such...

Winner of the 2016 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. In his fifth poetry collection, William Page explores humankind's complex relationships with the world's inhabitants. We encounter teens feeling the...

Author: Irene MitchellPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: February 01, 2021Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952593166ISBN-13: 9781952593161