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WATCH: Marilyn Chin On Winning The 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Prize: “I Believe I’m An Activist Poet”
September 24, 2015
As Marilyn Chin began her acceptance speech for this year’s award for poetry, she looked out in the audience upon…
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WATCH: Marlon James On Winning The 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Prize: “My Whole Life Has Been Shaped By Anisfield-Wolf”
It was a brief passage in “Sula,” Toni Morrison‘s 1973 novel, that changed Marlon James‘ entire life: in it, Sula…
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WATCH: Jericho Brown On Winning The 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Prize: “The Writing I Do Is Part Of A Tradition”
September 23, 2015
“My idols sat around and read my book, y’all,” Jericho Brown remarked from the podium at the 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book…
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Artwork Inspired By Anisfield-Wolf Winners Coming Soon To Cleveland’s Public Transit
September 9, 2015
Clevelanders feeling uninspired on their daily commute will soon have one route infused with a new literary landscape. …
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READ: Adrian Matejka’s New Jean-Michel Basquiat-Inspired Poem, “& Later,”
September 4, 2015
Take a look at Jean-Michel Basquiat’s mesmerizing 1984 painting “Trumpet.” It inspired a new poem from Adrian Matejka that he…
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Incoming CWRU Students Get A Lesson In “Stereotype Threat”
August 31, 2015
Claude Steele, 69, has spent his professional life thinking about stereotypes. He knows how easily we drop into a defensive…
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College-Bound Cleveland Teens Now Published Authors
August 14, 2015
Sarah Marcus, an English teacher at Saint Martin de Porres high school and local poet, spends her days engaging her…
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READ: Jericho Brown’s Striking New Poem, “The Tradition”
August 10, 2015
Poet Jericho Brown, winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award this year, has written a 14-line poem that begins with the…
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Read Walter Mosley’s Love Letter To The Louisana That Shaped Him
August 3, 2015
Novelist Walter Mosley, the creator of the private investigator Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, has just published a ruminating essay called “Patter…
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REVIEW: Tamara Winfrey Harris Lends Depth To Black Womanhood In “The Sisters Are Alright”
July 23, 2015
About a year ago, I noticed a number of black women I follow online all wearing the same “Black Girls…
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Meet Our 2015 Winners In And Around Cleveland This September
July 16, 2015
Anisfield-Wolf award winners are—almost by definition—civic minded. They continue a generous tradition of adding extra public conversations each September in…
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REVIEW: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me” Is A Blunt Examination Of Black Life In America
July 13, 2015
When a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown, journalist Ta-Nehisi…
