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“We Are Radical Monarchs” Documentary Shows Young Girls Taking Flight In The Social Justice Realm
April 24, 2020
“I was meant to be here,” 11-year-old Amia said as she twirled around the state capitol building in Sacramento, California. On a field trip with roughly a dozen other members of the Radical Monarchs, a social justice troop based out of Oakland, California, Amia’s enthusiasm was captured in the riveting 2019 documentary, “We Are the […] Read More → -
New Exhibition Pulls Local Community Into The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Canon
April 16, 2020
An innovative virtual exhibition at Case Western Reserve University selects and showcases new local responses to Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards writing. Sponsored by the Cleveland Humanities Collaborative, the exhibition features 10 new poems and essays responding to prompts from the Anisfield-Wolf award-winning canon. Students and faculty from area universities created their own work based in Tracy K. Smith (“Wade in the Water”), Jesmyn Ward […] Read More → -
Kamden Hilliard Named Second Anisfield-Wolf Fellow At Cleveland State University Poetry Center
April 3, 2020
Kamden Hilliard — a poet who has lived in Hawai’i, southern California, New York City, Hong Kong, Iowa and South Carolina over their 26 years — will be the second Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Writing and Editing. Hilliard was chosen from among more than 100 applicants. The poet, who uses “they, them, their” pronouns, has yet […] Read More → -
Introducing Our Class Of 2020
March 30, 2020
The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 85th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2020 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity are: Eric Foner, Lifetime Achievement Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, Poetry Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air, Nonfiction Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Fiction […] Read More →
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