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  • Professor Heather Shotton On Native Identity And Representation

    February 27, 2018

    As the #MeToo movement surges on, elevating the national conversation around sexual assault and gender inequality, Professor Heather Shotton believes…

  • Author Angie Thomas Shares Inspiration For “The Hate U Give” With Cleveland Public Library

    February 20, 2018

    In December, a suburban Houston school district yanked copies of the young-adult novel “The Hate U Give” from all 25…

  • Poet Elizabeth Alexander Becomes New President Of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

    February 7, 2018

    Anisfield-Wolf poet Elizabeth Alexander will be the next president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, becoming the first woman to…

  • Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Breaks Down The Dangers Of Educational Segregation During CWRU Convocation

    February 5, 2018

    Nikole Hannah-Jones has no interest in frittering anyone’s time. “You would never hear me use the word ‘diversity’ except to…

  • REVIEW: “When They Call You A Terrorist” Takes Readers Inside The Black Lives Matter Movement

    January 17, 2018

    Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, is no stranger to resistance. Her searing new memoir, “When…

  • The New York Times And PBS NewsHour Team Up For A New Book Club

    January 4, 2018

    Jesmyn Ward, whose fiction is drawing comparisons to William Faulkner’s, received a new honor this week: her 2017 novel, “Sing,…

  • New Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship Addresses Diversity In Publishing

    December 15, 2017

    In a nationally unique innovation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards has partnered with the Cleveland State University Poetry Center to create…

  • Anisfield-Wolf Authors To Close 2018 Virginia Book Festival With Panel On Racism And Reflections On Charlottesville

    December 5, 2017

    Coming off a successful year of literary prizes, three of the 2017 recipients of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards will reconvene…

  • READ: Marilyn Chin’s New Poem, “Love Story”

    November 21, 2017

    Marilyn Chin is a frank and feminist poet who continues to enlarge the Anisfield-Wolf canon. Like Peter Ho Davies, she…

  • LISTEN: Karan Mahajan Interviewed On Professional Book Nerds Podcast

    November 20, 2017

    At the tail end of Cleveland Book Week, Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald, hosts of the “Professional Book Nerds” podcast,…

  • WATCH: Poets From Twelve Literary & Performative Arts Bring Anisfield-Wolf To Public Transit

    November 8, 2017

    One idea to make the morning commute more bearable for Clevelanders? Add a bit of poetry. That theory was tested…

  • Latest Inter|Urban Mural Celebrates Tyehimba Jess’ “Olio”

    November 3, 2017

    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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The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity. Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book awards in 1935, in honor of her father, John Anisfield, and husband, Eugene Wolf, to reflect her family’s passion for social justice. Presented by the Cleveland Foundation, it remains the only American book prize focusing on works that address racism and diversity.

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