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FUTUREPOEM BOOKS OPEN READING PERIOD
Our next open reading period will be held in September 2011. We will accept manuscripts via our online submissions form from September 1 - September 30, 2011.
Futurepoem welcomes unpublished book-length manuscripts of innovative prose, poetry and multi-genre work during this reading period. Our editors for this season who will read and select manuscripts for publication by Futurepoem are Tisa Bryant, Simone Forti, Bruce Hainley, and Jen Hofer (more information on the editors below).
SUBMISSION FORM AND GUIDELINES
Submissions will be read by our volunteer guest editorial panel who will select books to be published by Futurepoem in an upcoming publication season.
Submissions Limit and Length: Please submit only one manuscript per person. Submission length: 50-200 pages 8x11 single-sided format. We are simply not able to publish longer books at this time.
Other Guidelines: Collaborations are ok as is international English-language work (we cannot currently accept anthologies or works in translation at this time). Work previous published in chapbook form is fine, as long as the manuscript has not been published in its current form.
Our current plan is to try to make a decision by end of March 2012 and the final decision will be posted soon after on our Website. The press is primarily a volunteer operation and we ask your patience in awaiting a decision. If we are interested in reading your manuscript further, we will notify you to request hard copies for our editorial panel.
Submissions are online only (submissions mailed to us will not be considered). The submission form and guidelines are located at:
http://futurepoem.submishmash.com/submit
We will announce selections for the upcoming publication season by end of March 2012. We may request additional copies of your manuscript for further consideration, so please include your email and address so that we can contact you.
This year, for the first time, Futurepoem's editorial panel will be based out of a different city than New York City, where our press is located. Editors for this year's open reading period are Los Angeles-based writers, artists, and critics:
Simone Forti, Tisa Bryant, Bruce Hainley, and Jen Hofer
Simone Forti is a dancer/choreographer and writer. She was a seminal figure in the Judson Dance Theater community that revolutionized dance in New York in the 1960s and 70s. Her book Handbook in Motion – an account of an ongoing personal discourse and its manifestations in dance was published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Press (1974). In 1009 Forti was on the faculty of the Naropa Summer Writing Program. Her current News Animation performances are improvisations in movement and language. Her book Oh, Tongue published by Beyond Baroque Books (2003) is a collection of experimental essays, poetry, transcriptions of News Animations and an imaginary political/historical conversation with her father. In February of 2011 Forti received a Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award in the Arts.
The Box
This Long Century
Tisa Bryant’s writing currently indulges her fascination with the phenomena of seeing and being seen, and of genre construction, specifically the gothic and the slave narrative. She is the author of Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007); co-editor of the cross-referenced journal of narrative and storytelling possibility, The Encyclopedia Project, and co-editor of War Diaries, an anthology on black gay men’s desire and survival, published in 2010 by AIDS Project Los Angeles. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in the journals Animal Shelter, Mandorla, Mixed Blood, Viz., and the solo exhibits of visual artists Jaime Cortez, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, and filmmaker Cauleen Smith. Her novel, The Curator, is forthcoming. She teaches fiction/prose, hybrid forms and innovative ethnic literature at the California Institute of the Arts.
California Institute of Arts
University of Pennsylvania
Bruce Hainley lives in Los Angeles. A contributing editor of Artforum, he is the author of Foul Mouth, No Biggie, and, with John Waters, Art--A Sex Book. His study of the American artist Sturtevant, Under the Sign of [sic], as well as a book of selected essays will be published in 2012. He teaches at Art Center College of Design.
Jen Hofer is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, interpreter, teacher, knitter, book- maker, public letter-writer, and urban cyclist. Her most recent books are the homemade chapbook Lead & Tether (Dusie Kollektiv, 2011); Ivory Black, a translation of Negro marfil by Myriam Moscona (Les Figues Press, 2011); a series of anti-war-manifesto
poems titled one (Palm Press, 2009); sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008); The Route, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008); and lip wolf, a translation of lobo de labio by Laura Solórzano (Action Books, 2007). Recent poems and translations have appeared in Aufgabe, Mandorla, Or, out of nothing, and TRY. She teaches at CalArts, Goddard College, and Otis College, and works nationally and locally as a social justice interpreter.
Commentaries on Jacket2
Knitted poems on {out of nothing}
trouble, Dusie Kollektiv, 2010
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