'Nerve Curriculum' Featured by The Latinx Project NYU: ‘La Treintena’ 2023

Manuel Paul Lopez's ‘Nerve Curriculum’ (Futurepoem 2023) was recently featured in The Latinx Project's “La Treintena 2023” — where Urayoán Noel highlights 30 (Something) Books of Latinx Poetry that have been making a splash this year:

This book begins with a burst of translingual noise (echoing PJ Harvey) and from there flows into a fragmentary écriture that has something of the rigor and clarity of the conceptual, not afraid of repetition or abstraction. Whereas some of Lopez’s other work has more transparently evoked the San Diego and Imperial Valley borderlands he is rooted in, here the memory of youth and the constitution of selfhood are fascinatingly worked through the speaker’s cousin/neighbor/alter ego, the “Chicano goth” Nestor. Along the way, the book pings with references to everyone from Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi to John Yau, Kenneth Koch, José Olivarez, Jack Hirschman, and Zora Neale Hurston, and to the alternative curricula of Wikipedia and YouTube. Don’t miss the beautiful abjection of “Bird Brain,” the last couplet of which contains its own kind of wisdom: “Of all the rain falling on this planet I’ve somehow attracted / the neon spacey kind that governs like a syllabus of smoke."

Violet Spurlock selected by Poets & Writers as a debut poet for the Get the Word Out program

We are excited to announce that forthcoming 2023 Futurepoem author Violet Spurlock was selected by Poets & Writers for their Get the Word Out program along with amazing new authors from Tupelo Press, Pitt Poetry Series, Akashic Books, Tin House, and others! 

Poets & Writers has announced the ten debut poets selected for their spring 2023 cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator designed to provide expert advice and peer support for early-career authors—at no cost to the authors or their publishers.

In the months ahead, these ten poets will take part in a series of workshops led by Morgan LaRocca, publicist at Milkweed Editions, supplemented by seminars with other leading publishing professionals. The poets, who hail from cities across the United States including Amherst, Massachusetts; Atlanta; Oakland; and Richmond, will each develop and execute a strategic marketing plan designed to leverage the pivotal opportunity presented by their debut collections.

The program is part of United States of Writing, an initiative to extend and deepen Poets & Writers’ service to writers nationwide. It aims to reduce barriers to success for writers from historically marginalized communities—including BIPOC and LGBTQ writers—as well as those from outside of New York City and those whose books are published by independent presses. Get the Word Out is generously supported by Leonard and Louise Riggio and Macmillan Publishers. (For more information visit at.pw.org/GTWO.)

Violet Spurlock was selected to receive the 2021 Other Futures Award for her book 
In Lieu of Solutions.

Violet Spurlock is a writer living in the Bay Area. Her published works include Alloyed Bliss (Eyelet, 2021) and VS VS VS (Gauss PDF, 2021). In addition to writing poetry, she also facilitates a writing group for trans authors and is currently at work on a novel. In Lieu of Solutions is her first full-length book and is forthcoming from Futurepoem in 2023.  

 Link to view the full press release 

Futurepoem at AWP 2023

Futurepoem was thrilled to attend this year's AWP 2023 in Seattle, WA! 

It was such a joy to meet everyone who came by our table at the bookfair where we had special discounts on select Futurepoem titles, merch, and an excluive print catalog. 

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