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The Free Black Women’s Library Is A National Movement Uplifting Black Female Authors
July 21, 2019
In 2015, Brooklyn, New York-based artist OlaRonke Akinmowo lugged 100 books — all written by black women — to a…
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With Release Of “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead Grabs The Spotlight Once Again
July 3, 2019
“Even in death the boys were trouble.” Those seven words open “The Nickel Boys,” the latest novel from Colson Whitehead,…
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Eugene Gloria Mixes Cultural Influences With New Poetry Collection, “Sightseer In This Killing City”
June 12, 2019
Readers of Eugene Gloria’s poems have a cultivated patience, a relationship with time. It has been seven years since the…
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An Anisfield Wolf-Inflected Reading List For India
June 7, 2019
by Lisa Nielson A colleague at the Cleveland Council on World Affairs generously nominated me for a professional exchange, sponsored…
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Incarcerated Youth Connect To Literature, Get Published Through Writers In Residence Program
June 4, 2019
Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Zachary Thomas has sparked an idea that is igniting across Northeast Ohio. In 2016, as a sophomore at…
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Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Leila Chatti Debuts New Poem “The Rules”
May 29, 2019
“The Rules,” a new poem by Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Leila Chatti, graced the inboxes of more than 350,000 subscribers, a landmark…
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The Mystery Of Edith Anisfield Wolf, Founder Of Our Book Prize
May 17, 2019
by Lisa Nielson Sometimes when I need serious advice, I visit Edith. Edith Anisfield Wolf, the founder of the Anisfield-Wolf…
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The Enduring Legacy Of Gordon Parks Featured At Cleveland Museum Of Art
May 16, 2019
Photographer, filmmaker, poet and novelist Gordon Parks died in 2006 at the age of 93. But the 1998 winner of…
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Four Cleveland Students Honored For Their Social Justice Work
May 6, 2019
Sophomore Elizabeth Metz was dismayed by students at Beachwood High School arguing whether slavery or the Holocaust was worse. Administrators…
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What Anisfield-Wolf Taught Me: Finding Strength In My Immigrant Identity
April 23, 2019
by Jessica Yang I was five when I came to the U.S. from China. My first experiences of America were…
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Anisfield-Wolf -Winning Authors Nab Two Pulitzer Prizes
April 16, 2019
David W. Blight and Brent Staples – two Anisfield-Wolf Book Award recipients – discovered this week that each had won…
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“A World Built On Bondage”: Anisfield-Wolf Authors Close The 2019 Virginia Festival Of The Book
April 10, 2019
Eighteen months after the Unite the Right racist violence wracked Charlottesville, the 25th anniversary of the Virginia Festival of the…
