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2010 18th Annual Poets House Showcase Exhibit Catalog The Poets House Showcase is made possible through the generosity of hundreds of publishers and authors who have graciously contributed their books. We are also deeply grateful to Deborah Pease for her ongoing support. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, The Concordia Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, The Lila Acheson Wallace Theatre Fund of the New York Community Trust, and our many Poets House Members for their support of this project. Poets House 10 River Terrace New York NY 10282 poetshouse.org Celebrating the 18th annual Poets House Showcase, we welcome you to our new home beside the Hudson! The Showcase is Poets House’s annual, all-inclusive exhibition of more than 2,000 poetry books, chapbooks, broadsides, and multimedia works published in the United States. We began the Showcase as a combination collection-development approach to building our library and a celebration of poetry publishing. We invited publishers to participate by donating copies of their new poetry titles, and in this way we continually add to our library all of the latest books, building one of the most comprehensive collections of poetry available to the public. Our mission has always been to be all-inclusive, to offer a democratic home for the range of poetry books published nationally. And we searched for it all: big presses, micropublishers, and artists’ collectives participate annually. To ensure that we reach as many presses as possible, our collection-development approach includes contacting publishers but also searching for artists’ books by micropublishers and artists’ collectives on such sites as Etsy (a place to buy and sell handmade objects). We also make use of social media throughout the year to invite poets and publishers to participate in the exhibition. Our focus in developing the collection is on U.S. publishers, but word is out about the Showcase; we happily include international titles, displayed in the exhibition in a separate International section and indexed as International Publishers in this catalog (following the U.S. Publishers and Author indices). The exhibition includes scholarly work by major publishers and fresh voices introduced by chapbook publishers. As in past years the Showcase includes poetry presented in atypical formats: as scrolls in cigarette cases; booklets inserted in matchboxes; poetry “baseball” cards; accordion cards; poetry currency (who wouldn’t want to pay with poetry?); even inserted in a repurposed wine menu holder. The Showcase is on view for one month. After July 31, the 2010 titles move upstairs from the programming hall into our main collection of 50,000+ titles. Our aim of inclusivity leaves it up to you to find new gems and rediscover favorite poets. Here is the quantitative breakdown of the 2010 Showcase: There are 2,176 titles published by 649 U.S. presses; 554 chapbooks; 76 bilingual (or multilingual) titles (representing 26 languages!); 117 anthologies; and 31 multimedia titles. In this display there are 1,306 titles published in 2009 and 870 in 2010. (Poets House’s 2009 Showcase was held in April 2009; this year’s titles were published subsequently.) In a supplementary exhibit, there are 185 books by international publishers. The words, the words: We generated a word cloud of all 2,164 titles to come up with the most frequently occurring words: Word Cloud of Poets House 2010 Showcase Titles* *A word cloud is a visual representation of the most frequently occurring words in a set. From Wordle.com. Thank you to Lee Briccetti, Executive Director and Jane Preston, Managing Director, and all the staff: Jen Chen, Nolan Chessman, Molly Dempsey, Robert Holczer, Marsha Howard, Alice Kaasik, Krista Manrique, Claude McCalla, Stephen Motika, Mike Romanos, Suzanne Wise, and Carlin Wragg. Thank you to the Poets House board of directors for their unflagging support of our mission. And our deepest gratitude to Deborah Pease, whose love of this program and of Poets House supports all of our efforts. Our dedicated volunteers and interns enthusiastically searched for, cataloged, and displayed the books in this exhibition and are an essential part of Poets House. Thank you to Sophie Bloomfield, Sofije Brija, Dominika Burek, Jean Raphael Cornel, Scott Doolin, Dena Elamrousi, Hannah Farmery, Rivka Fogel, Rebecca Galpern, Eric Himmelfarb, Sarah Jones, Brittany Kleinschnitz, Lisa Kolarsick, Julie Kantor, Derek Kroessler, Jessi Lauffer, Stella Lee, Sarah LeWarn, Michael Lopez, Lama Makarem, Christina Manzella, Elizabeth Metzger, Shelley Miller, Katie Naoum, Alyssa Rapp, Johanna Rothenberg, Gina Scalise, and Rebecca Scher. --Maggie Balistreri, Librarian LISTINGS BY PUBLISHER 13 Hands Publications • Madsen, Elaine, Crayola Can’t Make these Colors: From the Palette of a Life in Verse, Spring 2010 • Madsen, Michael, American Badass, Spring 2010, Photography/Poetry 1913 Press • Riggs, Sarah and Cole Swensen, eds., Read, Winter 2009, Anthology; Bilingual, French/English 226 Press • Purdom, Christopher William, dreamtime horizon, 2010, Chapbook 2nd Avenue Press • Linmark, R. Zamora, The Filipino Exiled Poet Channels Montgomery Clift and Other Poems, Winter 2009, Chapbook • Magi, Jill, Poetry (That Let It Roll Where You Want It.), Winter 2009, Chapbook 53rd State Press • Gutierrez, Miguel, *When You Rise Up: Performance Texts, 2009 ABZ Press • Brazaitis, Mark, The Other Language, Winter 2009 • Shipers, Carrie, Ordinary Mourning, Spring 2010 Action Books • Choi, Don Mee, The Morning News Is Exciting, 2010 • Ito, Hiromi, Killing Kanoko: Selected Poems of Hiromi Ito. Translated by Jeffrey Angles, Winter 2009 Adastra Press • Wolfshohl, Clarence, *Season of Mangos, 2009, Chapbook Adventures in Poetry • Bernheimer, Alan, The Spoonlight Institute, Fall 2009 • Robinson, Kit, The Messianic Trees: Selected 1976-2003 Poems, Winter 2009 Africa World Press • Otto, Melanie, *A CREOLE EXPERIMENT: Utopian Space in Kamau Brathwaite’s “Video-Style” Works, Spring 2010 Agincourt Press • Pagliarani, Elio, The Girl Carla and Other Poems. Translated and edited by Patrick Rumble, Winter 2009 AGOG Press • Gambell-Peterson, Gaye, MYnd mAp, Fall 2009, Chapbook AHA Books • Conforti, Gerard J., Shells in the Sand, Summer 2009 • Reichhold, Jane, Scarlet Scissors Fire, Spring 2009 • Reichhold, Jane, and Hans-Peter Goettsche, Circus Forever, Spring 2010 • Reichhold, Jane, ed., Twenty Years Tanka Splendor, Winter 2009, Anthology • Steiner, B., Immersion: A Haiku Journey Through the Grand Canyon, Spring 2010 * Indicates that title has not yet been received from publisher 1 Ahadada Books • Estep, Robert, Sueno(s) For Alejandra, Winter 2009 • Fox, Skip, Delta Blues, Winter 2009 • Halbur, Adam, *Poor Manners, 2009 • Murphy, Rich, Hunting and Pecking, Winter 2009, Chapbook • Ocasio, Grace C., Hollerin From This Shack, Winter 2009, Chapbook • Skillman, Judith, Prisoner Of the Swifts, Winter 2009 • Tabios, Eileen R., Nota Bene Eiswein, Spring 2009 • Terry, Philip, Oulipoems 2, Spring 2010 • Thomas, Barbara L., Dreaming of Sunflower Fields, Winter 2009 Ahsahta Press • Byrd, Brigitte, Song of a Living Room, Winter 2009, Prose Poetry • Carr, Julie, 100 Notes On Violence, Winter 2010 • Doller, Ben, FAQ, Spring 2009 • Doller, Sondra, Chora, Spring 2010 • Greenstreet, Kate, *The Last 4 Things, 2009 • Iijima, Brenda, If Not Metamorphic, Winter 2010 • Jesme, Kathleen, The Plum-Stone Game, Winter 2009 • Loden, Rachel, Dick of the Dead, Spring 2009 • Maloutas, Barbara, The Whole Marie, Winter 2009 • Phillips, Lance, These Indicium Tales, Spring 2010 • Tichy, Susan, Gallowglass, Spring 2010 Airlie Press • Henderson, Donna, The Eddy Fence Poems, Winter 2009 • Lamb, Jessica, Last Apples of Late Empires, Winter 2009 Akashic Books • Adams, Ryan, Hello Sunshine, Winter 2009 Akashic Books / Black Goat • Durbin, Kate, The Ravenous Audience, Winter 2009 • Ede, Amatoritsero, Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children, Winter 2009 • Garcia, Cristina, The Lesser Tragedy of Death, Spring 2010 • Reid, Rick, to be hung from the ceiling by string of varying length, Spring 2009 Albion Books • Stephens, Nathalie, Vigilous, Reel: De-sire (a)s accusation, Spring 2010, Chapbook • Szymaszek, Stacy, From Hart Island, Winter 2009, Chapbook • Szymaszek, Stacy, From Hart Island, Winter 2009, Broadside • Walker, Laura, Bird Book, Spring 2010, Chapbook • Walker, Laura, pine warbler, Spring 2010, Broadside Alice James Books • Betts, Reginald Dwayne, Sahid Reads His Own Palm, Spring 2010 • Fuhrman, Joanna, Pageant, Winter 2009 • Goodan, Kevin, Winter Tenor, Spring 2009 • Johnson, Daniel, How to Catch a Falling Knife, Spring 2010 • Moscaliuc, Mihaela, Father Dirt, Winter 2010 * Indicates that title has not yet been received from publisher 2 • Revell, Donald, The Bitter Withy, Fall 2009 • Salerno, Carey, Shelter, Winter 2009 Allbook Books • Harris III, Mankh (Walter E.), ed., 2010 Haiku Calendar, Spring 2010, Calendar • Mankh (Walter E. 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