2010 Poetry Publication Showcase/Directory of American Poetry Books Submission Guidelines

There's still time to send in your book and participate in the 2010 Showcase!
Revised deadlines: Email maggie@poetshouse.org by June 1; send books by June 10.

The Showcase is an annual exhibit of all of the year's new poetry books and a festival of events presented during National Poetry Month. Last year's Showcase included more than 2,100 books of poetry, representing the work of more than 600 publishers: commercial, university, independent, and micro-presses. You are invited to participate by sending us review copies of your newest books for exhibit.

Inclusion in the Showcase is entirely FREE. To participate, please email maggie@poetshouse.org to let us know of your interest in participating in the Showcase and then send us review copies of your latest poetry books. The 2010 Showcase will include all poetry and poetry-related titles (volumes by individual authors, anthologies, chapbooks, biographies, critical studies, essay collections, CDs, DVDs, etc.) published since April 2009.

• Organized by publisher so that the work of your press can be seen as a whole, it provides a unique forum for literary branding.

• It makes your books available to the acquisitions and prize committees who come to Poets House to review all of the new books for the year.

• It means your books will be listed in the Directory of American Poetry Books, which provides bibliographic detail for all of the books displayed.

• It secures your books a place in the national archive we are building here at Poets House.

• And it provides year-round exposure to readers and writers of poetry.

All books of poetry (full-length collections, anthologies and chapbooks), poetry-related prose, poetry audio and videotapes, CD's, and computer media published since April of 2009 qualify for exhibit. Books from vanity press publishers will not be accepted. Children's books and books of poetry published outside the U.S. are included in a separate portion of the exhibit, but they are not listed in the Directory.

•  Please send an email to maggie@poetshouse.org to let us know which books you will be sending no later than June 1, 2010.
•  Send two copies of each book to Poets House as soon as they are available. All books must be received by June 10, 2010 to ensure a spot in the display.

Maggie Balistreri, Librarian
Poets House
10 River Terrace
New York, NY 10282

**Note: We must have hard copies of the book for it to be listed in both the Showcase catalog and the Directory of American Poetry Books.