Anisfield-Wolf Book Club
Immerse yourself in the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards canon through our monthly virtual book club.
Explore thoughtful book discussion questions, exclusive author content, and thoughts on the winning books from AWBA program director, jurors and partners each month!
April’s Selection: 2007 Fiction Winner, Blue Front, by Martha Collins
Martha Collins’, Blue Front, the book-length poem based on a lynching her father witnessed when he was five years old in Cairo, Illinois, was also chosen as one of “25 Books to Remember from 2006” by the New York Public Library and won an Ohioana Book Award. A selection of poems from Blue Front received the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize in 2005. The author of four previous poetry collections, including Some Things Words Can Do, Collins has also published two books of co-translations of Vietnamese poetry.
Listen to a Podcast with Martha Collins
Book Discussion Questions
Whether you are hosting your next book club or would simply like some questions to guide your reading, program director of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Kortney Morrow, has curated a selection of questions to consider while you read Blue Front.
Recommended Reading
Did you enjoy reading Blue Front? If so, we recommend the following books to add to your reading list!
The Light of Truth, Ida B. Wells
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
The Trees, Percival Everett
Black Meme, Legacy Russell
Lynching in America Report, Equal Justice Initiative
On Whiteness, Claudia Rankine
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