FUTUREPOEM BOOKS OPEN READING PERIOD
Futurepoem welcomes unpublished book-length manuscripts of innovative prose, poetry and multi-genre work during our regular open reading period. As part of our collective approach to editorial decision-making, a slightly different panel of guest editors read and choose manuscripts for publication each year. Our editors for this season are indicated below.

Our next open reading period will be held in September 2009.

Unpublished book-length manuscript submissions with a U.S. postmark dated between 9/1/09 and 9/30/09 will be considered.

Please send submissions to:

Futurepoem books
P.O. Box 7687
JAF Station
New York, NY 10116

Please read carefully:
International English-language submissions will be considered but they should be shipped to arrive prior to or on September 30 (we cannot currently consider works-in-translation as part of this series).

You may submit work that has been previously submitted to the press, as long as it remains unpublished. You may also submit work that has been previously published in part as a chapbook as long as the book in its current form has not been previously published.

Out of respect for our volunteer editors, please only sumbit one manuscript per person.

Books should be approximately between 50 pages and 200 pages on standard letter size paper.

We cannot return manuscripts. Please do not include a return envelope and bind only with a binder clip to facilitate recycling.

We may request additional copies of your manuscript for further consideration.

We will announce two selections for the upcoming publication season by end of March 2010. If you wish to be notified of results by mail, please include a self-addressed stampted return envelope.

Editors for 2009/2010
Editors for this year's open reading period are:
Eileen Myles, Bob Perelman, Kim Rosenfield, & Dan Machlin.

Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles is a poet (Sorry,Tree) who writes fiction (Chelsea Girls, Cool for You) and a performer and libretticist whose opera “Hell” (w composer Michael Webster) was performed on both coasts in 2004 and again in 2006. In the 80s she was Artistic Director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project. In 92 she conducted an openly female write in campaign for President. She is Professor Emeritus of Writing & Literature at UC San Diego. The Importance of Being Iceland, a collection of writings on art, culture, and queerness for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant will be out in July from Semiotext(e)/MIT. She lives in New York.
Eileen Myles' Website

Bob Perelman
Bob Perelman teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published 19 books of poems, including: Iflife (N.Y: Roof Books, 2006); Playing Bodies, in collaboration with painter Francie Shaw (N. Y.: Granary Books, 2004); and Ten to One: Selected Poems (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1999). His critical books are The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History ; The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky. His work can be accessed on Penn Sound (http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound); his website is http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/perelman/

Kim Rosenfield
Kim Rosenfield is a poet and psychotherapist.  She is the author of several books of poetry, including Good Morning--Midnight-- (Roof Books 2001), Tràma (Krupskaya 2004), and re:evolution (Les Figues Press 2009).  Good Morning—Midnight—was awarded Book of the Year by Small Press Traffic, 2005. She is part of the artist/writer’s
collaborative The Collective Task (The Collective Task publication forthcoming, Patrick Lovelace Editions, 2009) Rosenfield lives and works in NYC.
“The Truth Interview with Kim Rosenfield”
http://www.arras.net/truth_interview-/index3.htm
“Guest: Kim Rosenfield”. Interview. Ceptuetics. WNYU 89.1 FM, New
York. March 19, 2008
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ceptuetics.html

Dan Machlin
Dan Machlin is founder and series editor of Futurepoem books. He is the author of Dear Body: (Ugly Duckling Presse 2007) which received a "Face Out" CLMP/Jerome Foundation grant for emerging writers. For more information on his work please visit the following links:
Dan Machlin Author Page Ugly Duckling Presse
Dan Machlin on Penn Sound

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