First inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month is an annual celebration in the United States highlighting the valuable role poetry plays in our culture and in individual lives. Signature Books has a long history of proudly publishing poetry. To celebrate National Poetry month, on Wednesday, April 26, at 7:00 p.m., at Signature Books, we are gathering poets whose work we have published for an exciting evening. Our authors will read from their works, all of which will be available for signing and purchase.

This is the first and only biography of Virginia Sorensen (1912–91), winner of the 1957 Newbery Medal, the highest honor given for children’s literature. She was also a New York Times bestselling author—of Mormon novels.

Last month, inclement weather forced us to postpone a book event we had planned at Signature. The good news, however, is that we have rescheduled it for Thursday, March 9, at 7:00 p.m.

Join us for a panel discussion about a mysterious incident in 1977, in which an anonymous writer printed hundreds of pamphlets refuting Jerald and Sandra Tanner’s Mormonism––Shadow or Reality?, placed them in a storage locker, then mailed the key and a letter to bookseller Sam Weller, asking him to distribute them.

From a life of meditation and memory, legend and language, Lisa Bickmore probes in poems intimate yet inclusive the dark spaces of experience where figures align, collapse, and realign. This second edition contains a new foreword by the author.

In this episode of the Signature Books Podcast, Signature marketing specialist Beth Brumer Reeve and poet Dayna Patterson discuss Patterson's new book, O Lady, Speak Again. How does a poet practice their craft, and what is the creative process like? Patterson answers these questions and more.

The witchy, spell-soaked poems in O Lady, Speak Again explore female characters from Shakespeare’s plays, with a feminist twist. The collection grapples with women’s roles in Shakespeare and in Mormon culture, both heavily influenced by patriarchal structures that often silence marginalized voices.

On Wednesday, February 22, Signature will host a panel discussion about a mysterious incident in 1977, in which an anonymous writer printed hundreds of pamphlets refuting Jerald and Sandra Tanner’s Mormonism––Shadow or Reality?, placed them in a storage locker, then mailed the key and a letter to bookseller Sam Weller, asking him to distribute them.

Two of Signature’s 2022 publications are biographies of important women in Mormon history, Martha Hughes Cannon and Susa Young Gates. They were contemporaries who advocated for women’s suffrage and rights. Their biographers, Constance Lieber and Romney Burke, will discuss the lives and contributions of these remarkable women at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 22, at Signature Books.

Several Signature authors will be signing books this week at three events in Provo and Salt Lake City. On Wednesday, October 26, The Utah State Historical Society will hold its annual conference at the Provo Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.

At the fiftieth-anniversary conference of the John Whitmer Historical Association, held this September, JWHA announced at its award ceremony that Signature’s 2021 publication, Brigham Young, Colonizer of the American West: Diaries and Office Journals, 1832–1871, was the recipient of its Whittemore Best Documentary History Book Award.

Signature advisory committee member and author Lisa Bickmore has been named Utah's new poet laureate, Governor Spencer Cox recently announced. Bickmore is a retired professor of English at Salt Lake Community College and is the author of three books, including Haste, a book of poetry she published with Signature in 1994.

In the last decade, the publishing industry has faced many challenges. When online booksellers and ebooks became popular with readers, Signature Books had to adapt.

These are exciting times at Signature Books! Last year we celebrated our fortieth anniversary, and on March 1, Barbara Jones Brown began her tenure as company director. We can proudly look back at the past four decades and of all we have accomplished

With year two of a global pandemic winding down, we continue to hope for a return to normalcy, yet we still face the reality—manifest in how we live and how we engage with others— that COVID is still here and part of our daily lives.