FutureCycle Press

How does a progressive woman with southern roots confront the racial tension that exists in our country today? In these poems, Nancy Owen Nelson grapples with how to embrace her ancestry while...

My HeavensAuthor: Harold Whit WilliamsPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: Mar 02, 2020Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 194237187XISBN-13: 9781942371878

Author: Gwen HartPublisher: Futurecycle PressPublication Date: Feb 06, 2023Number of Pages: 74 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952593468ISBN-13: 9781952593468

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 short poems map...

Winner of the 2009 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, No Loneliness is a collection of lyrics and narrative poems written about the confusions and attempts at order in the poet's life. It is a book about...

ON THE PORCH, UNDER THE EAVE is a look into home, family, growing up, growing away, and returning to the people of the past. The author gives the perspectives of a detached viewer peeking into...

Adrienne Rich's poem "What Kind of Times Are These" says in these times "it's necessary to talk about trees." These times are hard for many living creatures, including trees. One Bent Twig collects...

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 that ushers us from place to place...

OrganbloomsAuthor: Lake AngelaPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: January 06, 2020Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942371802ISBN-13: 9781942371809

Paul Hostovsky: Selected Poems brings together 120 poems from this prolific, masterful, Pushcart Prize-winning poet's previous five collections of poetry, Bending the Notes (2008), Dear Truth (2009),...

Point No Point is about people who live on the edges; who travel from place to place, at home nowhere; who wander through life's journey. It is about all of us who are outsiders, Pilgrims,...

Psalm SonnetsAuthor: Jane Simpson, Diane KistnerPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: February 01, 2021Number of Pages: 62 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952593085ISBN-13:...

In a dazzling array of forms, moods, and subjects, the poems in Matthew Roth's Rains Rain explore the absurd and tender boundaries that separate desire and disaster. Again and again, the speakers in...

This collection of prose poems and flash fictions imaginatively explores moments of hesitation and celebration. In the tradition of the Latin American microcuento as practiced by Julio Cort?zar,...

Set on what remains of a small family farm in the Blue Ridge foothills of Western North Carolina, ROUGH BEAST depicts the quirky ascension of Larry Ledbetter from small-time country gangster to...

Ruth Bavetta's selections of the best poems from her previously published collections: Fugitive Pigments; Embers on the Stairs; Flour, Water, Salt; No Longer At This Address; and 2022 FutureCycle...

SAINT AGNES OUTSIDE THE WALLS returns us to Moore's familiar concerns with a humanity bonded by sacrifice and insight. Although named for the small, 4th-century chapel "outside the walls" of Rome,...

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. Unusual...

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 creation for...

In this courageous and insistently honest collection of poems, Vicki Mandell-King portrays the disparate feelings that arose during the four long years when her mother-in-law was dying: love,...

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 poem brings into...

In SMALL FIRES, Jos? Angel Araguz engages personal mythologies of the self, culture, and place. The crucible of Mexican-American identity is on display: poems about feeling the need to hide one's...

Lucia Galloway's collection of poems, SOME WORDS FOR MEANWHILE, invites us into a place we come to recognize not only as the time of our "ordinary" living, but also as the time of our truest living,...

In STAR MAP Nancy Anne Miller writes through the four seasons of Northwestern Connecticut beginning with winter in "It Hints of Madness" with "icicles/ drooling from roofs, constant snow/ a kind of...

The word, "still," like life itself, is pregnant with possibility. On one end of the spectrum, it is the ultimate stillness of death; on the other, it is generational: still, life continues. The word...

SWIMMING THIS is a touching and moving account of a woman's personal journey toward self discovery and wholeness. Weaving together memory, myth, dreams, and folklore, these poems chronicle a woman's...

In a world rife with discord and discontent, frequently bound and blinded by technology, Catherine Arra turns our gaze to nature and the wild. The twenty-six poems in Tales of Intrigue & Plumage are...

Author: Rachel Marie PattersonPublisher: Futurecycle PressPublication Date: Mar 07, 2022Number of Pages: 68 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 195259328XISBN-13: 9781952593284

THE ABANDONED EYE celebrates J. P. Dancing Bear's poetic strengths as a master of image, oftentimes surreal, though never losing track of emotion and meaning while dazzling the senses. Dancing Bear...

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 bewilderment? How deep...