Books from Futurecycle Press

Kentucky Review 2015
By Multiple Authors, Robert S. King
Contributors to the 2015 issue include Stephanie Bryant Anderson, Diana Anhalt, Anne Babson, Pam Baggett, Rebecca Baggett, Bobby Steve Baker, Mary Jo Balistreri, Roy Bentley, Bryce Berkowitz, Adam Berlin, Nancy Bevilaqua, Rose Mary Boehm, ...
Wild Beauty
By Alan Catlin
Alan Catlin's WILD BEAUTY is a poetic examination of the multifarious modes of expression in various artistic media, part of an ongoing process of examining "Extreme Art": the use of unconventional, non-traditional objects to create works ...
Tread Softly
By Diana Woodcock
Perhaps for a poet who grew up memorizing nature psalms of the Old Testament and singing "This is My Father¿s World," it was inevitable that her poetry eventually would take a turn toward ecological concerns, merging her spirituality with ...
Down Anstruther Way
By Tobi Alfier
In DOWN ANSTRUTHER WAY, Tobi Alfier takes us on a trip through a Scotland of love, hard work, pubs, lorries, lochs, and skies ranging from bruised purple to misty to cloudy and blue.
American Odyssey
By Alan Catlin
By the end of the book, with the REQUIEM exhibit of photographs by photographers killed in Vietnam, humans are still present but dwarfed by the war that engulfs them. These poems address silence and pain, and they offer redemption. Maybe.
Kentucky Review 2014
By Robert S. King
Contributors to the 2014 issue include Jeffrey Alfier, Shawn Aveningo, Mary Jo Balistreri, Ruth Bavetta, Brian Beatty, Sandy Benitez, Nancy Bevilaqua, Byron Beynon, George Bishop, CL Bledsoe, Rose Mary Boehm, Ace Boggess, Jesse Breite, ...
Inheritor
By Jeanine Stevens
Jeanine Stevens is interested in origins.
Limberlost
By Jeanine Stevens
" Partial resolve is given in "Bungalow" and "The Magpie." Memory recreated adds new perceptions, shapes and colors. Limberlost is a book resembling a rite of passage, an assemblage revealing the texture that age and wisdom bring.
Enough
By Carole Richard Thompson
This small book of poems with much to tell holds poignant vignettes of one woman's life.
Contested Terrain
By D. A. Gray
CONTESTED TERRAIN captures the myriad identities inside a veteran shaped by birth, geography and, later, a set of experiences that belie any hand-me-down wisdom. ¿Cave Country¿ sees the green, fertile surface give way as the illusion ...
There Is No Good Time for Bad News
By Aruni Kashyap
Like numerous other lesser-known insurgencies in the world, this conflict between the Indian state and the insurgents, and the stories of people who suffered, went largely unreported.
The Night I Heard Everything
By Mary Carroll-Hackett
This second full collection of prose poems from Mary Carroll-Hackett traces through a life spent in liminal places, particularly that often shadowy and always sacred realm between life and death, touching on both the isolation and the grace ...
Early Echoes
By Carol Frith
In this collection, the "early echoes" are the isolating sirens of patrol cars and ambulances in the darkness, along with poems of morning glories in urban alleyways, of seedy coffee shops and neglected stone fountains in vacant back yards.
Water-Gazers
By Elizabeth Schultz
Elizabeth Schultz¿s sixth book of poetry, WATER-GAZERS, confirms and inspires our dependency on and our fascination with water.
Controlled Hallucinations
By John Sibley Williams
Moving through art and history, through apocalyptic visions and family, into and back out of the paradox of using language to express languagelessness, Controlled Hallucinations weaves universal themes and images with the basic human ...
Blood Moon
By Jane Blue
Jane Blue's BLOOD MOON is a book of passionate poems: passion in the usual form, of love lost and love found, or of a saint's passion, surprisingly, perhaps, not so different; of a passion for words and the tearing apart of words to strip ...
Fort Lonesome
By Timothy Krcmarik
Fort Lonesome
Half a Man
By Bill Glose
Evocative, imagistic, and mesmerizing, replete with telling details and enriched by occasional humor, this collection of war poetry is a brilliant portrayal of what all those touched by war must cope with on both the battlefield and ...
Flour, Water, Salt
By Ruth Bavetta
Ruth Bavetta gathers us around the table to partake of the meal of living. She serves a piquant simmer of togetherness that tastes of love, loss, and remembrance. This is food as more than recipes and restaurant reviews.
Vortex Street
By Heather H. Thomas
That the scientific phenomenon of the ¿vortex street¿ in water and air appears to look like our own genetic code, the double helix, suggests that this is the place where we live.