Hey there! Happy New Year! Hope your year has gotten off to a good start. Hope you are keeping snug. There are two new books of poetry that might interest you. Solace in So Many Words contributor and Evanston poet Susan Spaeth Cherry has a new book--Sackcloth and Silk: New and Selected Poems. She will be reading from this collection Thursday, January 11 at 7 pm at the Community Meeting Room of Evanston Public Library. Copies of Sackcloth and Silk will be available … [Read more...]
Fair season
It’s that time of year when books are celebrated. Here are three upcoming bookfairs. Currently underway is the Evanston Literary Festival, which started May 4 and goes through May 14. Upcoming events include Zoe Zolbrod tonight at Evanston Public Library to launch the tour for her new book The Telling, just out from Curbside Splendor. There are also readings by Laura Kasischke (May 11)and Alexander Chee (May 12) and a program called “Writing the Next Chapter” on Friday, … [Read more...]
Safe Shall Be My Going, December 14 at Evanston Public Library
Two weeks from today you can hear a great presentation by Solace in So Many Words contributor Joan Corwin. As I mentioned in an earlier post, this year marks the 100-year anniversary of World War I. Safe Shall Be My Going is Joan’s prize-winning novella about that war and she will be reading from it at Evanston Public Library, Sunday, December 14, at 3 pm. Joan wrote to me about the upcoming event in an email: "As many of you know, July 28, 2014 marked the centennial of … [Read more...]
December readings . . .
It's hard to know where to begin with all the news about Solace in So Many Words so I will start by reporting on the latest readings, which were held last week. On Monday, December 5 we read at Evanston Public Library. My thanks go to Russell Johnson of Readers' Services and Lesley Williams, Director of Adult Services, at Evanston Public Library. As has been the case at other readings, I forgot to take pictures though the camera was sitting in my bag. About 30 people … [Read more...]
December readings — don’t forget!
Hey there - We have two upcoming gigs in December and a newly announced gig in January at Wilmette Public Library. Here are all the details! This Monday, December 5, at 7 pm at Evanston Public Library, Main branch, Community meeting room, Evanston writers Susan Spaeth Cherry, Joan Corwin, Carol Kanter, Paula W. Peterson and Pat Rahmann along with editor Ellen Wade Beals and other contributors such as Pamela Miller, J. Scott Smith, and Kathleene Donahoo and D. J. Lachance … [Read more...]