The Directory is an exciting outgrowth of the Poets House Showcase, an annual exhibit of all of the new poetry books and poetry-related texts published in the United States in a single year. Each year, Poets House adds the bibliographic records of all the books exhibited in the Showcase to the Directory—with the exception of those that are published outside of the United States. The database is searchable by author, title, editor or translator, publisher, publication date, book type, and any keyword from the description. Results may be sorted by author, title or publisher.