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 Saltonstall 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 Aairs, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The JM Kaplan Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, 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 19th annual Poets House Showcase, with 2,459 poetry titles on display. Welcome to the Showcase, 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 welcome you to this comprehensive celebration of U.S. poetry and poetry publishing. Collection Development Approach Poets House invite publishers to participate in the annual Showcase by donating copies of their new poetry titles, which are displayed for a monthlong exhibition. The books are then integrated into our 50,000-volume poetry library, one of the largest collections of poetry open to the public. The Poets House mission has always been to be all-inclusive, to offer a democratic home for the range of poetry books published nationally. Our Showcase reflects this inclusivity. We search for it all: big presses, micropublishers, and artists’ collectives participate annually. Our research is informed by the entire poetry community, by poets and publishers, who continually send us their newest titles; and library visitors looking for a recent poet or publication. From January to June Showcase research intensifies as we contact each publisher and invite them to participate in the exhibition. In addition to researching publishers, we also search for artists’ books by micropublishers and artists’ collectives on Etsy (a place to buy and sell handmade objects), and we make great use of social media year to invite poets and publishers to send us new titles. Scope of the Showcase Our focus in developing the collection is on U.S. publishers, but word is out about the Showcase in an international community of poets; we include international titles, which are 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). Types of Publications Included 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 books; collaborations with visual artists; and chapbooks made from recycled materials such as business cards and telephone directory pages. Showcase Exhibition Dates The 2011 Showcase is on display in Kray Hall from June 28 to July 30. After July 30, the 2011 titles move from our program hall upstairs to our library of 50,000+ titles. Here they will be alphabetized by author instead of by publisher and available to library visitors who want quick access to the most recent poetry titles published in the United States. The Numbers Publishing research firm Bowker, publishers of Books in Print, indicated in their annual Industry Report a 15% decline in poetry publishing in 2010. (DOI: www.bowker.com/index.php/book-industry-statistics) Our numbers, instead, are up. This is likely because a greater number of publishers participated in this year's Showcase (a 20% increase from last year); but also, significantly, because the Showcase includes typically uncataloged and off-the-grid publications that Bowker's report excludes—titles we actively archive: limited-edition chapbooks, artists' collaborations, titles without ISBNs, and broadsides. Here is the quantitative breakdown of the 2011 Showcase: There are 2,458 titles (229 titles are still pending and will be added to the exhibition within the month) published by 767 U.S. presses; 557 chapbooks; 71 bilingual or multilingual titles (representing 27 languages); 123 anthologies; and 47 multimedia titles. In this display there are 1,417 titles published in 2010 and 1,042 published between January and June 2011. In a supplementary exhibit, there are 179 books by 62 international publishers. How to Participate in the Showcase As you work on your own poetry books, chapbooks, and multimedia titles, I encourage you to contribute two copies to Poets House for inclusion in the 2012 Showcase. You can send titles to my attention throughout the year. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the monthlong display. Acknowledgments Thank you to Lee Briccetti, Executive Director and Jane Preston, Managing Director, and all the staff: Reggie Harris, Robert Holczer, Alice Kaasik, Christina Lem, Alex Mann, Krista Manrique, Claude McCalla, Stephen Motika, Katie Naoum, Mike Romanos, Bleuberthal Scott, and Suzanne Wise. Thank you to the Poets House board of directors for their unflagging support of our mission—and for their own poetry titles included in this year's Showcase! Thank you to Molly Dempsey for her special support. Thank you to Small Press Distribution (SPD), for contributing some key missing titles. And our deepest gratitude to Deborah Saltonstall Pease, whose love of this program and of Poets House supports all of our efforts. Our dedicated volunteers and interns enthusiastically researched, cataloged, and displayed the titles in this exhibition and are an essential part of daily life at Poets House. Thank you to 2011 Showcase assistants PJ Horoszko, Victoria Romero, and Byron Bartlett, and to Poets House interns Andy Axel, Anne Brink, Brian Carpenter, Sharmi Cohen, Hannah Farmery, Matthew Foley, Brianna Franklin, Joseph Fritsch, Anna Hezel, Julie Kantor, Keyan Kaplan, Mika Kligler, Derek Kroessler, Amanda Lorencz, Olivia Mardwig, Lily Philpott, Jon Picco, Nicole Rivieccio, Gina Scalise, Margaret Sweeney, Lanna Tokuhiro, and Claire Van Winkle. —Maggie Balistreri, Librarian LISTINGS BY PUBLISHER 1913 Press • Dwibedy, Biswamit, *Ozalid, 2010 • Greenberg, Arielle; Zucker, Rachel, Home/Birth: A Poemic, Spring 2011 • Wald, Diane, Wonderbender, Spring 2011 226 Press • Purdom, Christopher William, Sailcloth Child , 2011, Chapbook • Purdom, Christopher William, *Six Years Inside My Brain, Winter 2010 A Midsummer Night’s Press • Enszer, Julie R, Handmade Love, Winter 2010 • Lia Block, Francesca, *Fairy Tales in Electri-City, 2010 • Luczak, Raymond, Mute, Winter 2010 Able Muse Press • Chandler, Catherine, Lines of Flight, 2011 • Pepple, Alexander, ed., Able Muse Anthology, Winter 2010, Anthology • Videlock, Wendy, Nevertheless, 2011 ABZ Press • Shipers, Carrie, Ordinary Mourning, Spring 2010 Accents Publishing • Lampton, Nana, *Bloom on a Split Board, 2011, Chapbook • Nowak, Dan, Of a Bed Frame, 2011, Chapbook Achiote Press • Choffel, Julie, *Figures in a Surplus, 2010 • Johnson, Eleanor, *Her Many Feathered Bones, 2010 • Lujan Bevacqua, Michael; Leon Guerrero, Victoria-Lola M.; Santos Perez, Craig, eds., *Chamoru Childhood, 2010 Acme Poem Company/Willow Springs Books • Hammer, Adam, No Time for Dancing, 2010, Chapbook Action Books • Richards, Peter, Helsinki, 2011 • Smith, Abraham, Hank, 2010 • Tiffany, Daniel, Privado, 2011 • Zurita, Raul, *Song for His Disappeared Love / Canto a su amor desaparecido. Translated by Daniel Borzutzky, 2010, Bilingual, Spanish/English Africa World Press • Otto, Melanie, A Creole Experiment: Utopian Space in Kamau Brathwaite’s “Video-Style” Works, Spring 2010 Agnes Fox Press • Higdon, Hailey, *How to Grow Almost Anything, 2011, Chapbook * Indicates that title has not yet been received from publisher 1 AHA Books • Reichhold, Jane, and Hans-Peter Goettsche, Circus Forever, Spring 2010 • Steiner, B., Immersion: A Haiku Journey Through the Grand Canyon, Spring 2010 Ahadada Books • Baugher, Janee J., Coordinates of Yes, 2010 • Chaves, Johnathan, *West Cliff Poems: The Poetry of Weng Chuan, 2010, Foreign • Jaffin, David; Fulton, Warren, Poemed on a Beach: A Skeptic’s Guide to Modern Poetry, 2010, Prose, Foreign • Pitkin, Anne, Winter Arguments , Spring 2011, Foreign Ahsahta Press • Briante, Susan, Utopia Minus, 2011 • Carr, Julie, 100 Notes On Violence, Winter 2010 • Fishman, Lisa, Flower Cart, Spring 2011 • Fishman, Lisa, Flower Cart, May 1, 2011 • Glück, Louise, Utopia Minus , 2011 • Henry, Brian, Lessness, 2011 • Kaschock, Kirsten, A Beautiful Name for a Girl, 2011 • Kelsey, Karla, Iteration Nets, Fall 2010 • Meetze, James, Dayglo, 2011 • Phillips, Lance, These Indicium Tales, Spring 2010 • Teare, Brian, Pleasure, Fall 2010 • Tichy, Susan, Gallowglass, Spring 2010 Airlie Press • McKenzie, Carter, Out Of Refusal, 2010 • Sullivan, Anita, Garden Of Beasts, 2010 Akashic Books • Dawes, Kwame, ed. Colin Channer, ed., So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival, Summer 2010 Akashic Books / Black Goat • Garcia, Cristina, The Lesser Tragedy of Death, Spring 2010 Albert Bonniers Forlag • Colosseum, Kolosseum, 2010, Foreign Albert Flynn DeSilver • DeSilver, Albert Flynn, A Field Guide to the Emotions , 2010 Albion Books • Fishman, Lisa, At the Same Time As Scattering, 2010, Chapbook • Skinner, Jonathan, Warblers, 2010, Chapbook • Stephens, Nathalie, Vigilous,