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NewsNatasha Trethewey to speak at Ursuline College
Join the Ursuline College community for an afternoon conversation with former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, winner of the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award…
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Cleveland Book Week 2021 Recap
This year’s virtual showcase – expanded beyond its usual timeframe – celebrated present and past Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (AWBA) winners…
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NewsCelebrating the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards During a Pandemic
Mary Fecteau is a senior producer at Ideastream Public Media and director of the 2020 and 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards…
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2021 Anisfield-Wolf Awards Documentary
Cleveland Book Week features a one-hour documentary with historian Vincent Brown, poet Victoria Chang, memoirist Natasha Trethewey, novelist James McBride,…
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2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Documentary
Cleveland Book Week features a one-hour documentary with historian Vincent Brown, poet Victoria Chang, memoirist Natasha Trethewey, novelist James McBride,…
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EventsThe City Club of Cleveland: Vincent Brown and Marlon James
Novelist Marlon James and Historian Vincent Brown will crack open their ideas in a unique conversation centered on Jamaica. The…
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Ursuline College: Natasha Trethewey
Join the campus-wide read of former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s “Memorial Drive,” praised as an instant classic. The memoir…
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EventsGreat Lakes African American Writers Conference: Deesha Philyaw Keynote
Deesha Philyaw will deliver the 2021 Langston Hughes Literary keynote at the 2021 GLAAWC conference at 11 am. Her debut…
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EventsCIFF + AWBA Streams Film Selections
Viewers will have the opportunity to stream free Cleveland International Film Festival documentaries, all with an Anisfield-Wolfian flavor, from September…
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EventsWriters Center Stage: Richard Powers
The William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series brings the literary world’s best writers to Cleveland. The 2021-2022 series is…
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EventsCleveland Public Library: Ayana Gray and “Beasts of Prey”
Meet the author of this much-anticipated young adult series opener in the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Rainforest. In “Beasts of Prey,” fate…
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EventsA Conversation with Mira Jacob
Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. Her recent work has appeared…
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EventsPoets Shane McCrae and Victoria Chang
Join the NEOMFA Reading Series for a reading, conversation, and Q&A featuring a pair of Anisfield-Wolf winning poets. Chang won…
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the schedule for CIFF Streams + Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards film events?For a list of film events and their…
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NewsAuthor Isabel Wilkerson On “Caste” And This Country’s Racial Moment of Truth
Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson, an authority on the Great Migration and the anthropology of caste, will anchor the Cleveland…
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NewsA Poetic Tribute To MacNolia Cox, Who Paved The Way For Spelling Champion Zaila Avant-garde
Two girls, African American eighth graders, separated by geography and time, made a splash at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. …
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NewsWith “On Juneteenth,” Annette Gordon-Reed Makes The Holiday And Its Texas Origins Personal
The holiday of Juneteenth is deepening its mark on American history. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously this week to make…
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NewsA Foundational Friendship between Edith Anisfield Wolf and Amy Loveman Created and Nurtured the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
By Lisa Nielson Almost 90 years ago, two women quietly cooked up what is to this day the only juried…
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PodcastsEpisode 8: Historian Charles King
She [Zora Neale Hurston] was herself, like all these individuals, a contrarian. And she wondered during the Second World War,…
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PodcastsEpisode 7: Poet Marilyn Chin
“She used to sing Chinese poetry to me, and she was illiterate, but she had memorized hundreds of poems and…