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Meet Our 2016 Winners This Fall In Northeast Ohio
June 15, 2016
Following in our tradition, each of our winners will speak at the awards ceremony, and each will talk and read…
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An Overlooked Classic, “Nervous Conditions” Is A Book That Deserves A Second Life In The Mainstream
May 27, 2016
by Gail Arnoff “I was not sorry when my brother died.” So begins Tsi Tsi Dangarembga’s semi-autobiographical novel Nervous Conditions,…
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“I’m Not Racist” Documentary Features Millennial Views On Privilege, Power And Identity
May 26, 2016
In one compelling segment from the 2014 documentary, “I’m Not Racist…Am I?” high school students huddle around a board game…
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#WritersOnTrump Push Back On Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee
May 25, 2016
Five winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book award in fiction are standing up to publicly, “as a matter of conscience, oppose,…
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New “Bench By The Road” Marks Underground Railroad History In Cleveland’s University Circle
May 18, 2016
Thinking about gaps in our communal memory has long occupied Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. In a 1989 interview, she said:…
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Cleveland-Area Students Get A Dose Of Anisfield-Wolf Poetry, Craft Their Own Verses (Listen In!)
May 3, 2016
National Poetry Month, celebrated every April for the past 20 years, became a little less abstract for Cleveland students this…
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REVIEW: Andrew Solomon’s “Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years”
April 22, 2016
When Andrew Solomon went to Finland to promote The Noonday Demon, his ground-breaking 2001 book on depression, he landed on…
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READ: Marilyn Chin’s New Poem, “Peony”
April 19, 2016
Hours before accepting her 2015 Anisfield-Wolf award, Marilyn Chin claimed “activist poet” as her mantle: “I’ve been writing poetry to…
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At The Cleveland Humanities Festival, Author Kamila Shamsie Asks “Why Weep for Stones?”
April 12, 2016
Novelist Kamila Shamsie has a knack for titles. She called her talk in Cleveland “Why Weep for Stones?” and built…
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Meet Our 2016 Winners
April 6, 2016
Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ second book of poetry, Heaven, brims with 38 poems that ask “Who the hell’s Heaven is this?”…
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REVIEW: Mat Johnson’s “Loving Day” Proves A Strong Offering In Racial Satire
April 4, 2016
by Gary Stonum In electoral politics you must choose one candidate. In identity politics, it is often the same. As…
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The Artist As Activist: Author Edwidge Danticat In Cleveland
March 23, 2016
Edwidge Danticat began her remarks in Cleveland by drawing attention to another artist, the painter Jacob Lawrence, whose migration series…
