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News: 22 Dec. 2025
Updated: 25 Dec. 2025
Compiled by Clare MacQueen

30th Poets House Showcase

 

Co-founded by Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006) and Elizabeth Kray (1916–1987), Poets House in New York City “is a comfortable, accessible place for poetry—a library and meeting place which invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry. Poets House seeks to document the wealth and diversity of modern poetry, to stimulate dialogue on issues of poetry in culture, and to cultivate a wider audience for the art” (as defined in the Mission Statement).

“The only event of its kind, the annual Poets House Showcase is a free exhibition featuring thousands of new poetry books and poetry-related texts published in the US and abroad. This year’s exhibition aims to collect all of the poetry published in 2024 and 2025. The current Showcase features 3,217 works from 687 different presses and publishers, with a sweeping range of poetic styles represented.

“For nearly 30 years, the Showcase Exhibit has displayed thousands of works by and about the poetry community, including volumes by individual authors, anthologies, chapbooks, prose and criticism, multimedia works, artists’ books, and more.

“In this diverse, inclusive exhibition, books from small presses receive the same care and attention as those from major publishers, and self-published authors are displayed alongside established poets. The exhibit is arranged alphabetically by publisher, making it easy to get a taste of each press’s distinctive voice and list.”

Exhibition Catalog for the 30th Showcase, which runs from
13 December 2025 to 28 February 2026

After the Showcase has closed, the books will be moved upstairs to the permanent collection in Reed Foundation Library:

“Among the largest and most comprehensive independent poetry collections available to the public in open stacks anywhere in the country, the Reed Foundation Library at Poets House houses over 80,000 poetry books and related materials, all freely accessible to poets, readers, researchers, and the broader poetry community. The collection includes books, chapbooks, literary journals, special collections, and the Axe-Houghton Multimedia Archive” (from About the Library).

Note from Clare:

I’m profoundly grateful to the authors and artists (dozens and dozens of them!) who granted me the pleasure and privilege of designing, curating, and publishing the following books. All of which are collections of a few of my favorite things—including dozens and dozens of literary and artistic hybrids! It means the world to me that these marvelous books reside at Poets House, which for me represents a priceless treasury of diversity, “a hive mind” repository of collective poetic consciousness.


I. Books created by Clare MacQueen in collaboration with their authors, published by MacQ, and exhibited in the 30th Poets House Showcase from 13 December 2025 to 28 February 2026:

II. Books co-edited by Clare MacQueen which are also held at Poets House:

III. Books created by Clare MacQueen and published by KYSO Flash Press (which retired in 2020); these books are held in the library collection at Poets House, and were exhibited in previous Showcases as noted below.

(Clare’s note, 25 Dec. 2025: Oddly enough, Safari’s search function doesn’t work in the online PDF for the 28th Poets House Showcase—i.e., in the first six entries below—but works just fine in the other Showcase PDFs. My Firefox browser has no problem searching any of them.)

1. In memoriam Kelley Marie Smith (1980–2011), forever in my heart

2. Dedicated to my sister, Cindy L. Sheppard, with much love and gratitude

3. Dedicated to poet Dan Gilmore, of blessed memory (1937–2018)

4. Dedicated to my mother, Mary Louise Russell Sheppard (1932–2003)


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