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Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Leila Chatti Debuts New Poem “The Rules”
May 29, 2019
“The Rules,” a new poem by Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Leila Chatti, graced the inboxes of more than 350,000 subscribers, a landmark…
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The Mystery Of Edith Anisfield Wolf, Founder Of Our Book Prize
May 17, 2019
by Lisa Nielson Sometimes when I need serious advice, I visit Edith. Edith Anisfield Wolf, the founder of the Anisfield-Wolf…
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The Enduring Legacy Of Gordon Parks Featured At Cleveland Museum Of Art
May 16, 2019
Photographer, filmmaker, poet and novelist Gordon Parks died in 2006 at the age of 93. But the 1998 winner of…
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Four Cleveland Students Honored For Their Social Justice Work
May 6, 2019
Sophomore Elizabeth Metz was dismayed by students at Beachwood High School arguing whether slavery or the Holocaust was worse. Administrators…
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What Anisfield-Wolf Taught Me: Finding Strength In My Immigrant Identity
April 23, 2019
by Jessica Yang I was five when I came to the U.S. from China. My first experiences of America were…
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Anisfield-Wolf -Winning Authors Nab Two Pulitzer Prizes
April 16, 2019
David W. Blight and Brent Staples – two Anisfield-Wolf Book Award recipients – discovered this week that each had won…
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“A World Built On Bondage”: Anisfield-Wolf Authors Close The 2019 Virginia Festival Of The Book
April 10, 2019
Eighteen months after the Unite the Right racist violence wracked Charlottesville, the 25th anniversary of the Virginia Festival of the…
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Jericho Brown’s New Poetry Collection “The Tradition” A Daring, Inventive Body Of Work
April 2, 2019
The cover of Jericho Brown’s new poetry collection, The Tradition, features a young black boy, perhaps 10 years old, surrounded…
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Interview with “Afterward” Director Ofra Bloch
March 26, 2019
“As a kid in Israel, my dream was to become a psychoanalyst and a filmmaker,” Ofra Bloch said in a…
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Forthcoming Poetry Collection “Deluge” A Stunning Debut For Leila Chatti
March 21, 2019
Leila Chatti worked six years to create Deluge, 52 poems that the esteemed Copper Canyon Press will publish next year…
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Teaching Anisfield-Wolf In The Classroom
March 20, 2019
By Gabrielle Bychowski How do we talk about racism? How do we talk about sexism? These were two of the…
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Zadie Smith’s “Feel Free” Honored At National Book Critics Circle Awards
March 18, 2019
Zadie Smith, best known for her piercing comic novels, has won a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism for…
