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NewsEDWINS Leadership And Restaurant Institute Named Recipient Of 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Memorial Award
There is a quote on the back of each menu at EDWINS Leadership and Restaurant Institute: “At Edwins, we believe…
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NewsIntroducing Cleveland Book Week, September 10-16
Welcome to the inaugural Cleveland Book Week, September 10-16, designed to make our region a literary destination. At the center…
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NewsREVIEW: “Another Brooklyn” By Jacqueline Woodson
Do you remember being fifteen? Let Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson’s first adult novel in 20 years, jog your memory. In…
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NewsREVIEW: “The Underground Railroad” By Colson Whitehead
by Charles Ellenbogen With all of the recent discussion about the changing faces on U.S. currency, some controversy emerged over…
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NewsREVIEW: “The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race”
There are 108 tally marks on the cover of The Fire This Time, the new essay collection that brings forth…
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NewsTa-Nehisi Coates + Roxane Gay Enter the Writers’ Room, But Comics Still Need a Jolt of Diversity
by Valentino L. Zullo, Teaching Fellow, Kent State University and Ohio Center for the Book Scholar-in-Residence at Cleveland Public Library The…
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NewsJoin Us For “An Evening With Rita Dove And Friends” On September 14
Rita Dove is coming home. The former poet laureate and Akron native will return to the region that raised her…
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NewsPublic Art Inspired By Anisfield-Wolf Canon Makes A Splash Across Cleveland
Riders heading to downtown Cleveland on the RTA’s Red Line may have noticed quite a few more pops of color adorning…
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NewsMeet Our 2016 Winners This Fall In Northeast Ohio
Following in our tradition, each of our winners will speak at the awards ceremony, and each will talk and read…
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NewsAn Overlooked Classic, “Nervous Conditions” Is A Book That Deserves A Second Life In The Mainstream
by Gail Arnoff “I was not sorry when my brother died.” So begins Tsi Tsi Dangarembga’s semi-autobiographical novel Nervous Conditions,…
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News“I’m Not Racist” Documentary Features Millennial Views On Privilege, Power And Identity
In one compelling segment from the 2014 documentary, “I’m Not Racist…Am I?” high school students huddle around a board game…
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News#WritersOnTrump Push Back On Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee
Five winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book award in fiction are standing up to publicly, “as a matter of conscience, oppose,…
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NewsNew “Bench By The Road” Marks Underground Railroad History In Cleveland’s University Circle
Thinking about gaps in our communal memory has long occupied Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. In a 1989 interview, she said:…
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NewsCleveland-Area Students Get A Dose Of Anisfield-Wolf Poetry, Craft Their Own Verses (Listen In!)
National Poetry Month, celebrated every April for the past 20 years, became a little less abstract for Cleveland students this…
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NewsREVIEW: Andrew Solomon’s “Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years”
When Andrew Solomon went to Finland to promote The Noonday Demon, his ground-breaking 2001 book on depression, he landed on…
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NewsREAD: Marilyn Chin’s New Poem, “Peony”
Hours before accepting her 2015 Anisfield-Wolf award, Marilyn Chin claimed “activist poet” as her mantle: “I’ve been writing poetry to…
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NewsAt The Cleveland Humanities Festival, Author Kamila Shamsie Asks “Why Weep for Stones?”
Novelist Kamila Shamsie has a knack for titles. She called her talk in Cleveland “Why Weep for Stones?” and built…
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Meet Our 2016 Winners
Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ second book of poetry, Heaven, brims with 38 poems that ask “Who the hell’s Heaven is this?”…
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2016 Press Release: Winners Announced
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BookThe Jazz Palace
Morris is deeply interested in the tensions of home and away, which can be seen in the immigrant and Great Migration characters populating “The Jazz Palace,” both fictional and actual.