America's Future: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow

by Caroline Bock, Jona Colson

Overview

AMERICA'S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow features 164 bold, thought-provoking writers including an opening speech, published here for the first time, by Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland; poetry by master poet E. Ethelbert Miller in collaboration with Miho Kinnas, essays by Marvin Kalb and Bethanne Patrick, and short stories by Mary Kay Zuravleff, Kathleen Wheaton and more. The anthology arrives at an urgent moment in our nation's history, when many are anxiously questioning: What are the possibilities for the future? Some pieces turn to our past, reckoning with the wounds we still carry in today's scars before questioning the future. Others turn their gaze forward, imagining the ways hope and reinvention can carve new paths. A must-have collection of writings. Read the future now with AMERICA'S FUTURE.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941551530
Publisher:	Washington Writers' Publishing House
Publication date:	09/09/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	406
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Caroline Bock's latest novel, The Other Beautiful People, a workplace love story about a movie-loving marketing executive, will be published on June 2, 2026, by Regal House Publishing. Her short story collection, Carry Her Home, won the Fiction Award from the Washington Writers' Publishing House. She is also the author of the acclaimed young adult novels LIE and Before My Eyes, published by St. Martin's Press. Notably, since 2022, she has been the co-president and prose editor at the Washington Writers' Publishing House. In this role, she is the senior editor for fiction/creative nonfiction, and she has been the prose editor on the following anthologies: This Is What America Looks Like (2022), Capital Queer (June 2025), and America's Future, poetry and prose in response to tomorrow. More about her at www.carolinebockofficialauthor.site
Jona Colson is a poet, educator, and translator. His poetry collection, Said Through Glass, won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House. He is also the translator of Aguas/Waters by Miguel Avero and the co-editor of the anthologies, This Is What America Looks Like (2022), Capital Queer (June 2025), and America's Future: poetry and prose in response to tomorrow. His poems, translations, and interviews have appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, LitHub, and elsewhere. He is co-president of Washington Writers' Publishing House and edits the bi-weekly journal, WWPH Writes. He is a professor of ESL at Montgomery College and lives in Washington, DC www.jonacolson.com

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Caroline Bock andJona Colson. FOREWORD |xv

PART I

Congressman Jamie Raskin. REMARKS AS DELIVERED AT THE HANDS OFF!

Rally on the National Mall | 3

Miho Kinnas & E. Ethelbert Miller. TO WRITE IS TO FLOWER | 10

DavidKeplinger. THE AMERICAN RUINS | 11

SNOW | 12

Len Kruger. CHILD PSYCHIATRIST: THE TELEVISION SERIES | 13

Dan Vera. THE ANTIVIRAL SPEAKS / CRITICAL MASS | 15

Azabache Floribunda | 17

Mary Kay Zuravleff. AN EXCERPT FROM ON THE HOOK | 18

Brandel France de Bravo.A CHRISTMAS IF YOU CAN KEEP IT | 25

Elizabeth Bruce. GOOD GOD, GOD | 26

And many more contemporary poets, short story writers, and essayists on AMERICA'S FUTURE. Read the future now! Be surprised, entertained, and enlightened.