Publishing-in-Transit: Futurepoem

Dan Machlin is the Founder and Executive Editor of Futurepoem Books. He is a poet, performer, editor, and Designer of Digital Things who lives in New York City. His work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Colorado Review, BOMB, Oversound, The Recluse/Poetry Project, and has been featured at the ICA Boston and MoMA PS1. His books and chapbooks include Dear Body (Ugly Duckling Presse), 6×7 (Ugly Duckling), This Side Facing You (Heart Hammer), and In Rem (@ Press). He has received awards from CLMP/Jerome Foundation and Fund for Poetry. He has taught writing at Naropa University and The Poetry Project and is a Spring 2024 curator for the Segue Reading Series at Artists Space. With singer/cellist Serena Jost, he has recorded several music-text collaborations.

Aiden Farrell is the managing editor of Futurepoem, where he has worked since 2018. His translation of The Vitals by Marie de Quatrebarbes is forthcoming with World Poetry Books. He has published two chapbooks, lilac lilac (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2023), and organismalgorithm (Fence, 2022), and his poetry and translations have been featured in _Denver Quarterly, Spectra Poets, and others. Aiden has led workshops at The Bridge, and, with The Kite, he has programmed and facilitated workshops in NYC jails. With Ryan Cook, he co-hosts Unnamed, a Brooklyn-based monthly reading series. The recipient of an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and an MA in Liberal Studies from The New School, Aiden was born in Paris and lives in Brooklyn.

Isabel Sobral Campos is the author of two full-length poetry manuscripts, How to Make Words of Rubble (Blue Figure Press, 2020), and Your Person Doesn’t Belong to You (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2018). She has also written several chapbooks, with her latest work published by Above/Ground press. Her manuscript The Optogram of the Mind is a Carnation was selected for the Futurepoem 2023 Other Futures Award. Her translation of Salette Tavares’s LEX ICON is forthcoming in May 2024 with Ugly Duckling Presse. With her sister, she is a co-founder and editor of Sputnik & Fizzle press.

Cole Swensen is the author of twenty volumes of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023), which was long-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over twenty volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2004 PEN USA Award in Literary Translation.