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Tommy Orange Shares The Urban Native American Experience In “There There” During Cleveland Book Week
November 22, 2019
Novelist Tommy Orange, cast in the warm glow of the lights at St. John Episcopal Church, brought his Anisfield-Wolf award-winning…
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Tracy K. Smith Examines The Duty Of Poetry In Turbulent Times During Cleveland Book Week
November 15, 2019
With the William G. Mather steamship providing a nautical backdrop, poet Tracy K. Smith brought her work to the shores…
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Young Cleveland Poet Mesmerizes Crowd At 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ceremony
October 29, 2019
For the past decade, Northeast Ohioans gathered for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ceremonies have celebrated a young poet alongside the…
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Sonia Sanchez Invokes The Political At Kent State University For Cleveland Book Week
September 23, 2019
Poet Sonia Sanchez launched Cleveland Book Week 2019 with a rousing, reflective performance at Kent State University, as part of…
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Cleveland Book Week 2019
September 10, 2019
The 2019 showcase, which ran from Sept. 18-28, celebrated present and past Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners, while offering a number…
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Reflecting On My Immigrant Experience Through Anisfield-Wolf Award Winning Books
August 22, 2019
For a few days in June, I sat down in an old building at Case Western Reserve University among 20…
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REVIEW: Sarah M. Broom Brings New Orleans To Life With “The Yellow House”
August 14, 2019
The typical story set in New Orleans begins and ends somewhere in the French Quarter, but Sarah M. Broom’s meaty…
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N. Scott Momaday Honored With Dayton Literary Peace Prize
July 22, 2019
At 85, N. Scott Momaday – considered the dean of Native American literature – is attracting renewed accolades for his…
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The Free Black Women’s Library Is A National Movement Uplifting Black Female Authors
July 21, 2019
In 2015, Brooklyn, New York-based artist OlaRonke Akinmowo lugged 100 books — all written by black women — to a…
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With Release Of “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead Grabs The Spotlight Once Again
July 3, 2019
“Even in death the boys were trouble.” Those seven words open “The Nickel Boys,” the latest novel from Colson Whitehead,…
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Eugene Gloria Mixes Cultural Influences With New Poetry Collection, “Sightseer In This Killing City”
June 12, 2019
Readers of Eugene Gloria’s poems have a cultivated patience, a relationship with time. It has been seven years since the…
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An Anisfield Wolf-Inflected Reading List For India
June 7, 2019
by Lisa Nielson A colleague at the Cleveland Council on World Affairs generously nominated me for a professional exchange, sponsored…
