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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.
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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…
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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…
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CANCELLED: Novelist Peter Ho Davies To Announce 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Winners March 30
March 6, 2020
We have cancelled the March 30 reading by Peter Ho Davies and announcement of our 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners,…
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Honoring Toni Morrison With A “Gesture Of Love” On Her Birthday
February 17, 2020
A mere dozen miles from the site where Toni Morrison was born Chloe Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, a day-long gathering…
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What Henry Louis Gates Thinks About The “Beer Summit” Incident, 11 Years Later
February 4, 2020
Henry Louis Gates Jr. rarely speaks about one of his most publicized moments — the July 2009 arrest by Sgt….
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On Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation, These Two Anisfield-Wolf Titles Offer Reflection
January 27, 2020
Ten years after Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book prizes, Soviet troops advanced across southeastern Poland and liberated Auschwitz, the…
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Cleveland Residents Invited To Anisfield-Wolf Reading Series
January 21, 2020
Pull up a chair at Case Western Reserve University’s new reading seminar for a hearty discussion of four Anisfield-Wolf award-winning…
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Celebrating Zora Neale Hurston With The Release Of “The Zora Canon”
January 7, 2020
Anisfield-Wolf recipient Zora Neale Hurston would have turned 129 years old January 7. To celebrate her birthday, the editors of…
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Put These 2019 Titles On Your 2020 Book List
December 16, 2019
In the onslaught of titles published each year, friends of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards can deploy a powerful technique to…
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Tommy Orange Shares The Urban Native American Experience In “There There” During Cleveland Book Week
November 22, 2019
Novelist Tommy Orange, cast in the warm glow of the lights at St. John Episcopal Church, brought his Anisfield-Wolf award-winning…
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Tracy K. Smith Examines The Duty Of Poetry In Turbulent Times During Cleveland Book Week
November 15, 2019
With the William G. Mather steamship providing a nautical backdrop, poet Tracy K. Smith brought her work to the shores…
