Category: Poetry

• Corner Office: Poetry by Susan Hahn

  

  The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) is is hosting award-winning author, playwright, and poet Susan Hahn to the store on Thursday, May 16 at 6:30 pm to discuss her new book of poetry, Corner Office. Multi-talented Hahn returns to poetry after two novels with a book-length poem in three voices, Man, Woman, and Earth, that reflects her experience as a playwright. Ms. Hahn will…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 4, 2024

  Author event, Book Stall, Poetry, Uncategorized

  Author event, book signing, Poetry, The Book Stall, Winnetka

• Printers Row Lit Fest

  FULL PROGRAM SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR PRINTERS ROW LIT FEST, THE MIDWEST’S LARGEST LITERARY CELEBRATION, SEPTEMBER 10 & 11 Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey joins over 100 authors including national bestsellers Jamie Ford, Marie Myung-OK Lee, and Danyel Smith in a jam-packed weekend of free programming This year’s festival highlights Chicago stories and offers fun for all ages, with a poetry tent…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 7, 2022

  #books, Author event, Authors, Autobiography, Biography, Chicago, Culture, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction

  #books, book signing, Chicago, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Sun-Times, Danyel Smith, Dr. David Ansell, Dr. Thomas Fisher, Eric Charles May, Joe Meno, Natalie Moore, Neil Steinberg, Printers Row Lit Fest, Sandmeyer's Books, The Book Cellar, Toya Wolfe, United States Poet Laureate, WBEZ

• 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Books and Drama

  

  This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 23, 2022

  #books, drama, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Pulitzer Prize

  Ada Ferrer, Andrea Elliott, Beacon Press, Biography, Bloomsbury, Carla Power, Chasing Me to My Grave, Covered with Night, Cub: An America History, Diane Seuss, drama, Fat Ham, Fiction, Francisco Goldman, frank:sonnets, Gayl Jones, Graywolf Press, Grove Press, History, Home, Home Land Security, Invisible Child, Jame Ijames, Janice P. Nimura, Joshua Cohen, Joshua Prager, Kate Masur, Kristina Wong, Liveright/Norton, Mai Der Vang, Monkey boy, New Directions, New York Review Books, Nicole Eustace, Non-fiction, One World/Random House, Palmares, Pessoa: A Biography, Poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner, Refractive Africa, Richard Zenith, Scribner, Selling Kabul, Sylvia Khoury, The Doctors Blackwell, The Family Roe, The Netanyahus, Until Justice Be Done, W.W. Norton, Will Alexander, Winfred Rembert, Yellow Rain

• THE 17TH ANNUAL BEST BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCE 2020 AWARD RECIPIENTS

  

  American Book Fest has announced the winners and finalists of The 2020 Best Book Awards. Awards were presented for titles published in 2018-2020. Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of American Book Fest said this year’s contest yielded over 2,000 entries from mainstream and independent publishers. These were then narrowed down to over 400 winners and finalists in 90…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 28, 2021

  Animals, Architecture, Artists, Authors, Autobiography, Biography, Canines, Center Street Publishing, Cookbooks, Culture, Family, Female Voices, Fiction, Food, Food History, HarperCollins, Historic Architecture, History, Indiana University, Indiana University Press, Louise Nevelson, Penguin Random House, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Recipes, Science Fiction, self-help, Uncategorized

  American Book Fest, Book awards, Forge, HarperCollins, Independent publishing houses, John Wiley and Sons, NYU Press, Oxford Press, Penguin Random House, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, Sounds True, The White House Historical Association

• Honoring the Best in African American Poetry

  When working on “The 100 Best African–American Poems”, award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni decided to cheat. “Including just one hundred would only get me to the 1970s,” says Giovanni, a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. “I definitely wanted to get some younger voices in too so there are actually 220 poems but they’re only numbered…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 4, 2021

  Poetry

  African-American poems, Nikki Giovanni, Poetry

• THE 17TH ANNUAL BEST BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCE 2020 AWARD RECIPIENTS

  Mainstream & Independent Titles Score Top Honors in the 17th Annual Best Book Awards  HarperCollins, Penguin/Random House, John Wiley and Sons, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, Forge, Sterling Publishing, Hay House, Sounds True, Llewellyn Worldwide, NYU Press, Oxford University Press, John Hopkins University Press, The White House Historical Association and hundreds of Independent Houses contribute to this…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  January 18, 2021

  American History, Architecture, Artists, Biography, Children’s books, Comedian, Cookbooks, Culture, Dogs, Fantasy, Female Voices, Fiction, Food, Gardening, History, Humor, Indiana University, Literary, Murder, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, self-help, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, True Crime, Women, Young Adult

  Best Book Awards

• Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry and Literary Fare

  

  Chef Myra Kornfeld and poet Stephen Massimilla have put together a luscious cookbook illustrating how poetry, prose and food have been inspirational throughout history. The 500-page book, “Cooking With the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry and Literary Fare,” is divided by seasons. It pairs 150 recipes with culinary poems, essays and historic…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  August 8, 2018

  Chefs, Cookbooks, History, Literary, Poetry, Recipes, Uncategorized