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Cleveland Book Week 2023: From Cover to Cover
October 16, 2023
The eighth annual Cleveland Book Week brought five literary powerhouses — poet Saeed Jones, historian Matthew F. Delmont, novelists Geraldine Brooks and Lan Samantha Chang and…
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REVIEW: Colson Whitehead’s Pen Sizzles With “Crook Manifesto”
September 15, 2023
by Charles Ellenbogen Ray Carney has a problem any parent will recognize. The protagonist of “Crook Manifesto” – the second…
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Introducing Our Class of 2023
April 3, 2023
The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2023 recipients of the only…
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“Rise and Rebuild” Documentary Puts Spotlight On Fight for Black Wealth
March 17, 2023
Filmmakers Leslia Asako Gladsjo and Sam Pollard wanted to make a documentary about the Tulsa Massacre, the two days in…
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Poet Adrian Matejka to Announce 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Award Winners
March 7, 2023
Join us Monday, April 3 as award-winning poet Adrian Matejka announces the new class of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners. Matejka won…
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7 Titles From AW-Winning Authors You’ll Want On Your TBR List
January 24, 2023
Looking for some new titles to pick up? Check out some recent releases from Anisfield-Wolf award winners – you already…
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Watch the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Awards Documentary
November 7, 2022
For the third year, our literary celebrations continue with a one-hour awards documentary featuring our 2022 winners: Percival Everett (fiction), Donika Kelly (poetry), George Makari (nonfiction), Tiya…
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7th Annual Cleveland Book Week, Cover to Cover
October 6, 2022
Book lovers gathered in person for the first time since 2019 to celebrate Cleveland Book Week this fall, with a…
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Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Valentino Zullo is Shaping the Future through Comics
August 31, 2022
“Fantasy drives us all,” declares Professor Valentino L. Zullo, the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Post-Doctoral Fellow in English and Public Humanities at…
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7th Annual Cleveland Book Week Kicks Off September 9
August 3, 2022
Since 2016, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards have hosted Cleveland Book Week, to celebrate its past and present winners and showcase…
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In “Shine Bright,” Music Critic Danyel Smith Gets On Stage And Shimmers
May 6, 2022
In “Shine Bright,” music critic Danyel Smith makes it plain she wants “credit to be given where credit is due.” Subtitled “A Very…
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Joseph Earl Thomas Named New Anisfield-Wolf Fellow At Cleveland State University Poetry Center
May 4, 2022
Joseph Earl Thomas expects to earn his doctorate in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024, but that road…
