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NewsHonoring Toni Morrison With A “Gesture Of Love” On Her Birthday
A mere dozen miles from the site where Toni Morrison was born Chloe Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, a day-long gathering…
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NewsWhat Henry Louis Gates Thinks About The “Beer Summit” Incident, 11 Years Later
Henry Louis Gates Jr. rarely speaks about one of his most publicized moments — the July 2009 arrest by Sgt….
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NewsOn Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation, These Two Anisfield-Wolf Titles Offer Reflection
Ten years after Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book prizes, Soviet troops advanced across southeastern Poland and liberated Auschwitz, the…
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NewsCleveland Residents Invited To Anisfield-Wolf Reading Series
Pull up a chair at Case Western Reserve University’s new reading seminar for a hearty discussion of four Anisfield-Wolf award-winning…
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NewsCelebrating Zora Neale Hurston With The Release Of “The Zora Canon”
Anisfield-Wolf recipient Zora Neale Hurston would have turned 129 years old January 7. To celebrate her birthday, the editors of…
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NewsPut These 2019 Titles On Your 2020 Book List
In the onslaught of titles published each year, friends of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards can deploy a powerful technique to…
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NewsTommy Orange Shares The Urban Native American Experience In “There There” During Cleveland Book Week
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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NewsYoung Cleveland Poet Mesmerizes Crowd At 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ceremony
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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NewsSonia Sanchez Invokes The Political At Kent State University For Cleveland Book Week
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
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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NewsReflecting On My Immigrant Experience Through Anisfield-Wolf Award Winning Books
For a few days in June, I sat down in an old building at Case Western Reserve University among 20…
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NewsREVIEW: Sarah M. Broom Brings New Orleans To Life With “The Yellow House”
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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NewsWith Release Of “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead Grabs The Spotlight Once Again
“Even in death the boys were trouble.” Those seven words open “The Nickel Boys,” the latest novel from Colson Whitehead,…
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NewsEugene Gloria Mixes Cultural Influences With New Poetry Collection, “Sightseer In This Killing City”
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
by Lisa Nielson A colleague at the Cleveland Council on World Affairs generously nominated me for a professional exchange, sponsored…
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NewsIncarcerated Youth Connect To Literature, Get Published Through Writers In Residence Program
Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Zachary Thomas has sparked an idea that is igniting across Northeast Ohio. In 2016, as a sophomore at…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Fellow Leila Chatti Debuts New Poem “The Rules”
“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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NewsThe Mystery Of Edith Anisfield Wolf, Founder Of Our Book Prize
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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NewsFour Cleveland Students Honored For Their Social Justice Work
Sophomore Elizabeth Metz was dismayed by students at Beachwood High School arguing whether slavery or the Holocaust was worse. Administrators…
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NewsWhat Anisfield-Wolf Taught Me: Finding Strength In My Immigrant Identity
by Jessica Yang I was five when I came to the U.S. from China. My first experiences of America were…