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For the last event of the inaugural Cleveland Book Week, Brian Seibert rolled up his cuffs and gave the audience…

by Lisa Nielson, Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. I was taking an internet break from my pile of…

This Halloween, families can share a treat that lasts longer than candy corn: “Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of…

Mary Morris spent close to two decades crafting her jazz-soaked Chicago novel, The Jazz Palace, winner of this year’s Anisfield-Wolf…

Cleveland welcomed poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips to town by giving him a good sense of our hometown pride. Visiting only…

Brian Seibert, the New York Times dance critic and 2016 nonfiction winner for his book, What the Eye Hears: A…

From the Playhouse Square stage, Lillian Faderman began her acceptance of this year’s nonfiction award with a story of how…

When Lillian Faderman spoke at the City Club of Cleveland this September, she ably distilled her ample Anisfield-Wolf winning history,…

Last week we celebrated the inaugural Cleveland Book Week (CBW), a series of special events to celebrate Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners past and…

There is a quote on the back of each menu at EDWINS Leadership and Restaurant Institute: “At Edwins, we believe…

Welcome to the inaugural Cleveland Book Week, September 10-16, designed to make our region a literary destination. At the center…

by Charles Ellenbogen With all of the recent discussion about the changing faces on U.S. currency, some controversy emerged over…

by Valentino L. Zullo, Teaching Fellow, Kent State University and Ohio Center for the Book Scholar-in-Residence at Cleveland Public Library  The…

Rita Dove is coming home. The former poet laureate and Akron native will return to the region that raised her…

Following in our tradition, each of our winners will speak at the awards ceremony, and each will talk and read…

 by Gail Arnoff “I was not sorry when my brother died.” So begins Tsi Tsi Dangarembga’s semi-autobiographical novel Nervous Conditions,…

Thinking about gaps in our communal memory has long occupied Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. In a 1989 interview, she said:…

National Poetry Month, celebrated every April for the past 20 years, became a little less abstract for Cleveland students this…

When Andrew Solomon went to Finland to promote The Noonday Demon, his ground-breaking 2001 book on depression, he landed on…

Hours before accepting her 2015 Anisfield-Wolf award, Marilyn Chin claimed “activist poet” as her mantle:  “I’ve been writing poetry to…