Futurepoem Books is an American small not-for-profit press based in New York City. Futurepoem was founded by Dan Machlin in 2002 and focuses on publishing innovative poetry, prose and hybrid literature. The press has a rotating editorial board. Each year three new editors select books sent in during the presses open reading period. Futurepoem has received funding from The New York State Council on the Arts

New York State Council on the Arts

The New York State Council on the Arts is an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York. It was established in 1960 through a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell , with backing from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and began its work in 1961...

 Literature Program and National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...

 Literature program.

Awards

• Asian American Literature Award for Shanxing Wang’s Mad Science in Imperial City
• AIGA
  Aiga
  ‘Aiga is a word in the Samoan language which means 'family.' The aiga is the family unit of Samoan society and differs from the Western sense in that it consists more than just a mother, father and children. The Samoan family, also referred to as an 'extended family' is based on the culture's...
  
   50 Books, 50 Covers Awards for Anthony Monahan’s Designs for Mad Science in Imperial City (2005) and The External Combustion Engine (2005)

Personnel

Current Board Members include Dan Machlin, Founding Editor; Monica de la Torre, Senior Editor of BOMB Magazine

Bomb Magazine

BOMB is a quarterly magazine edited by artists and writers. It is composed, primarily, of interviews between creative people working in a variety of disciplines — visual art, literature, music, film, theater and architecture....

; and Jeremy Sigler, Associate Editor, Associate Editor Parkett Publishers.

Publications

• Delinquent http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/deliquent.html – Mina Pam Dick (2009)
• Poems of a Black Object http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/blackobject.html – Ronaldo Wilson (2009)
• Your Country is Great http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/yourcountryisgreat.html – Ara Shirinyan (2008)
• Traffic and Weather http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/trafficandweather.html – Marcella Durand (2008)
• Threads http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/threads.html – Jill Magi (2007)
• Murmur http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/murmur.html – Laura Mullen
  Laura Mullen
  Laura Mullen in Los Angeles, is a contemporary American poet working in hybrid genres and traditions. As with the poetry of Cole Swensen, her work is considered Postmodern and post-Language school, but it also takes a lot from her interests in Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe and numerous authors and...
  
  (2006)
• The External Combustion Engine http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/external.html – Michael Ives (2005)
• Mad Science in Imperial City http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/madscience.html – Shanxing Wang (2005)
• Ghosts by Albert Ayler, Ghosts by Albert Ayler http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/ghosts.html – Merry Fortune (2004)
• The Escape http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/escape.html – Jo Ann Wasserman (2003)
• Under the Sun http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/underthesun.html – Rachel Levitsky (2002)
• Some Mantic Daemons http://www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/mantic.html – Garrett Kalleberg (2002)