FutureCycle Press

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 author's personal...

There Is No Good Time For Bad NewsAuthor: Aruni KashyapPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: April 05, 2021Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The time: 1918. The U.S. is both prosperous and at war. An influenza epidemic, often known by the misnomer Spanish Flu or La Grippe, is spreading throughout the world. The 1918 flu is different in...

Walking the grid of Venice streets, Tom Laichas wanders dreamscape, landscape, and self-portrait. Among these prose poems are wry fables: gnarled parkway trees plotting against the Bureau of Street...

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 extraordinary and unexpected...

After living on the Arabian Peninsula and the Tibetan Plateau, in the Everglades (as a poet-in-residence), in Macau, Thailand, and Chengdu, China?a city so polluted the sun seldom breaks through the...

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 grief," she awakens...

In UNDERSONG, Tanuja Mehrotra Wakefield makes the bold claim that "a lyric is always pulsing in the vein, a kind of undersong." Indeed, Wakefield's poems are intensely sonic and musical; they attempt...

Unmapped WorldsAuthor: David ChorltonPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: March 01, 2021Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952593158ISBN-13: 9781952593154

Heather H. Thomas?s Vortex Street is a road through loss, conflict, and change where the shocks of being are personal and global. The street spirals inward and outward in space and shuttles back and...

Author: Paulette GuerinPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: Jan 03, 2022Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952593204ISBN-13: 9781952593208

Elizabeth Schultz?s sixth book of poetry, WATER-GAZERS, confirms and inspires our dependency on and our fascination with water. With particular attention to lakes and oceans, her poetry considers...

Co-edited by poets David Chorlton and Robert S. King, WEATHERINGS is three poetry anthologies in one: Homeland (Writings About Homelessness); Metamorphosis (Writings About Aging); and Our Place...

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 does it mean to be in this world, to eat, to...

In these poems, Melanie McCabe traces the disintegration of a marriage and the loss of a house lived in for decades. The poems explore not only the end of a relationship, but also the deep and...

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 the author visited. Dark, visceral,...

In WHAT THEY WANTED, Victor Henry's narrative poems offer a journey into a war he was drafted to fight, in a strange country for political reasons he knew nothing about. Once there he discovers the...

We are enriched by all of life's experiences be they joy or heartbreak, shadow or light. Bavetta's vivid images and metaphors invite us into these poems of love and sorrow. Without restraint, she...

Bill Edmondson's long-awaited first book is a tour de force of distinctive, finely-honed poetic skills and a world view brutally honest yet ultimately hopeful. In lines carved like phrases from a...

Where She DancesAuthor: Michael JenningsPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: Feb 03, 2020Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942371829ISBN-13: 9781942371823

In this collection of poems, Jennifer Lagier transports readers to California's rural Central Valley during the 1950s and '60s, a time of transitional upheavals. Her poetry explores disintegration of...

Where We're Going, Where We've BeenAuthor: Arnold JohnstonPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: January 06, 2020Number of Pages: 74 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Heart-breaking and life-affirming, Wendell Hawken?s WHITE BIRD testifies to the human spirit. This poem sequence, told from the caregiver?s perspective, chronicles a beloved?s cancer from diagnosis...

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 connection between...

Have you ever gone to an art exhibit and felt as if you had been transported into a museum of curiosities? Alan Catlin's WILD BEAUTY is a poetic examination of the multifarious modes of expression in...

Wilderness Lessons by JM Miller is a love note to the planet that risks burning, a song of loss and connection, and a prayer for being alive and becoming "the animal you were meant to be." An...

Winner of the 2014 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. William Greenway's poems travel between muggy recollections of a Southern Baptist childhood, meditations on the otherworldly beauty of Wales, and...

Author: Chris AbbatePublisher: Futurecycle PressPublication Date: Feb 20, 2022Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952593255ISBN-13: 9781952593253

Words for the DeadAuthor: Lake Angela, Julie Kim ShavinPublisher: FutureCycle PressPublication Date: January 04, 2021Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

WORKaDAY is a collection of lyrical poems steeped in the sardonic commerce of American business, and revealing of capitalism's glaring incongruity, when its practitioners show sparse evidence of...