The 30th Annual American Book Awards hosted by the Before Columbus Foundation. The awards honor books void of restrictions hence there are no categories or nominees and are given to writers by other writers. The winners include, Houston Baker, Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era, Danit Brown, Ask for a Convertible, Jericho Brown, Please, Jose Antonio Burciaga, The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of Jose Antonio Burciaga, Claire Hope Cummings, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, Stella Pope Duarte, If I Die in Juarez, Linda Gregg, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems, Suheir Hammad, Breaking Poems, Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder, George Lewis, A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music, Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El Grullo, Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, and a Lifetime Achievement Award to Miguel Algarin. The event takes place at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City.
