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NewsJill Lepore Shares Political Optimism For A Divided Nation During CWRU Talk
Jill Lepore is restless. The Harvard historian prefers to walk while she thinks, and stand when she talks. And so…
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NewsPoet Leila Chatti Named The Inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow At Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Leila Chatti, a poet who grew up in Michigan, will be the first Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Writing and Editing, beginning…
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NewsProfessor Heather Shotton On Native Identity And Representation
As the #MeToo movement surges on, elevating the national conversation around sexual assault and gender inequality, Professor Heather Shotton believes…
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NewsAuthor Angie Thomas Shares Inspiration For “The Hate U Give” With Cleveland Public Library
In December, a suburban Houston school district yanked copies of the young-adult novel “The Hate U Give” from all 25…
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NewsPoet Elizabeth Alexander Becomes New President Of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Anisfield-Wolf poet Elizabeth Alexander will be the next president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, becoming the first woman to…
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NewsJournalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Breaks Down The Dangers Of Educational Segregation During CWRU Convocation
Nikole Hannah-Jones has no interest in frittering anyone’s time. “You would never hear me use the word ‘diversity’ except to…
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NewsThe New York Times And PBS NewsHour Team Up For A New Book Club
Jesmyn Ward, whose fiction is drawing comparisons to William Faulkner’s, received a new honor this week: her 2017 novel, “Sing,…
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NewsNew Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship Addresses Diversity In Publishing
In a nationally unique innovation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards has partnered with the Cleveland State University Poetry Center to create…
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NewsREAD: Marilyn Chin’s New Poem, “Love Story”
Marilyn Chin is a frank and feminist poet who continues to enlarge the Anisfield-Wolf canon. Like Peter Ho Davies, she…
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NewsLISTEN: Karan Mahajan Interviewed On Professional Book Nerds Podcast
At the tail end of Cleveland Book Week, Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald, hosts of the “Professional Book Nerds” podcast,…
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BookNon-European Peoples of South Africa
Ralph Johnson Bunche was among the most prominent sociologists, diplomats, civil rights and peace activists of the 20th century.
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BookThe Negro College Graduate
Along with Ralph Bunche and other important scholars, Johnson worked with Gunnar Myrdal on his epic study of race in America from 1938-1940.
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NewsWATCH: Poets From Twelve Literary & Performative Arts Bring Anisfield-Wolf To Public Transit
One idea to make the morning commute more bearable for Clevelanders? Add a bit of poetry. That theory was tested…
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NewsLatest Inter|Urban Mural Celebrates Tyehimba Jess’ “Olio”
Tyehimba Jess is a strikingly architectural poet. It makes sense that his 14-line poem, “Blind Tom Plays for Confederate Troops,…
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NewsAndrew Solomon’s “Far From The Tree” Finds A New Life On The Big Screen
Four years after Andrew Solomon took home the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf nonfiction prize for “Far from the Tree,” his work is…
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NewsCleveland Kids’ Book Bank Named Recipient Of 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Memorial Award
The Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank is a juggernaut. Less than 20 months after its founding in March 2016, it had…
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NewsMichelle Kuo’s “Reading With Patrick” Smashes Predictable White-Savior Tropes In The Classroom
Michelle Kuo, the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, describes herself as a shy child growing up in western Michigan who rarely…
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REVIEW: “Sing Unburied Sing” Fits Perfectly Into Jesmyn Ward’s Canon Of Southern Literature
The pages of Jesmyn Ward’s third novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” smell of Mississippi. Set in the same fictional town, Bois…
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NewsREVIEW: Adrian Matejka’s “Map To The Stars” Is An Extraordinary Ride
by Charles Ellenbogen Anisfield-Wolf award winner Adrian Matejka has produced another excellent book of poems. I chose the word ‘book’…
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NewsCleveland Book Week Highlights: Isabel Allende Speaks At The City Club Of Cleveland
During Cleveland Book Week, the incomparable Isabel Allende joked at age 75 about her new boyfriend, and about her approach…