FutureCycle Press

Winner of the 2015 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. Who are the bad guys, anyway? Which one is the good fight, anyway? In Paul Hostovsky's eighth book of poetry, The Bad Guys, there are poems about...

In this collection of persona poems, Diana Pinckney explores the art of others and regards the wolf as the ultimate other: "Wolves speak to me from beauty, strangeness and vulnerability, representing...

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 what seems at first...

These poems are about a family's loss: the loss of a mother's mental capabilities due to dementia, the loss of her words, and the loss of her family's ability to hold on to her identity. The chapbook...

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 book of poetry, the desert...

This is a book of surrealistic, metaphysical poems about love; poems of invitation, engagement, ordeal, passion and devotion. Meisel's poems evoke the sentinels of love through the wise voices of...

Author: Paula J. LambertPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: Jan 03, 2022Number of Pages: 86 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952593190ISBN-13: 9781952593192

These are quiet poems, plainspoken. They sit in the back of class, in the last pew at church, and have sly, considered things to say. Bittersweet, self-aware, surreal, and funny, they celebrate the...

The sonnets and variations in this new collection from Kristen Staby Rembold are songs of people who have lived and worked in community and songs of the landscape itself. These poems testify to the...

Globetrotter and cross-country motorcyclist, George Moore has traversed the deserts and plains of the West in search of the cultural equivalent of a cowboy nirvana, always open to the vast, open...

Like the colonial-era document and the small New England city from which it draws its title, The Holyoke Diaries is a microcosm haunted by the past and driven by dreams and desires. It bristles with...

What we keep hidden. / The gape we leave for it to slip through. Nancy Carol Moody's second collection of poems is rich with the contradictions inherent in the living of a full and human life. The...

Randy Blythe's poems wend their way through personal, historical, regional, philosophical, aesthetic, familial, and spiritual landscapes, and in doing so echo a larger search for how and where...

A childhood home haunted by the past, a farm-animal veterinarian's bloody operations in the field, an unemployed cousin stranded by time and hope--Ken Craft explores the indifferent world in all its...

The Knife Collector features a speaker who cannot escape weighing each present moment and image against the parallel narratives of his youth and his family in Arkansas. While traveling through time...

The Lamps of HistoryAuthor: Michael Sandler, Diane KistnerPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: January 04, 2021Number of Pages: 98 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

These poems are nature-based and provide the fabric for a collection of fresh outlooks on the modern world. At times simply written, these poems have a depth that will surprise and ferment in the...

This second full collection of prose poems from Mary Carroll-Hackett traces through a life spent in liminal places, particularly that often shadowy and always sacred realm between life and death,...

Scott T. Starbuck's THE OTHER HISTORY puts the poet's lens on the real buried underneath suburban legends of Christopher Columbus "discovering" America and making it a better place, the illusion that...

THE POROUS DESERT is an extraordinarily rich collection of poems from the Arizona desert.Author: Diane KistnerPublisher: Futurecycle PressPublication Date: Dec 02, 2012Number of Pages: 62...

Jane Ellen Glasser's fifth poetry collection begins and ends on the metaphor of the title's image: "I will wear gratitude like a red coat, / forbearing the shifting/ seasons of hope and doubt." The...

The Salt WidowAuthor: Joan ColbyPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: Aug 10, 2020Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952593018ISBN-13: 9781952593017

Peeling away stereotypes with knife-sharp images, Elizabeth Schultz's collection of poems opens up the Kansas landscape to reveal astonishing complexities and subtleties. These poems dazzle the...

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.Author: Diane KistnerPublisher: Futurecycle...

Pamela Murray Winters' poems walk the meandering line between memory and imagination. In her debut collection, The Unbeckonable Bird, one will find questions, elegies, love songs, dream songs, and...

In the tradition of Pacific Northwest Gothic, these poems explore intimate and expansive themes of place, leaving, return, and resilience amid beauty and degradation on the shores of the Salish Sea...

The Wingback Chair, Colby's fourteenth volume of poetry, contains new poems that illustrate significant moments in her life as well as the inexorable progression of her poetry. The subjects range...

Thoreau wrote, "...I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not...

We've stripped the beds, both flower and sea, / emptied every larder back to bones writes Emma Wynn in this collection of unsparing poems on the legacies of human brutality-to the natural world,...

THE WRACK LINE is a moving collection of poems about how family, loss, the passage of time, and social/environmental stresses demarcate symbolic wrack lines across our lives as we scatter the flotsam...