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NewsREVIEW: “When They Call You A Terrorist” Takes Readers Inside The Black Lives Matter Movement
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, is no stranger to resistance. Her searing new memoir, “When…
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NewsThe New York Times And PBS NewsHour Team Up For A New Book Club
Jesmyn Ward, whose fiction is drawing comparisons to William Faulkner’s, received a new honor this week: her 2017 novel, “Sing,…
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NewsNew Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship Addresses Diversity In Publishing
In a nationally unique innovation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards has partnered with the Cleveland State University Poetry Center to create…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Authors To Close 2018 Virginia Book Festival With Panel On Racism And Reflections On Charlottesville
Coming off a successful year of literary prizes, three of the 2017 recipients of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards will reconvene…
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NewsREAD: Marilyn Chin’s New Poem, “Love Story”
Marilyn Chin is a frank and feminist poet who continues to enlarge the Anisfield-Wolf canon. Like Peter Ho Davies, she…
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NewsLISTEN: Karan Mahajan Interviewed On Professional Book Nerds Podcast
At the tail end of Cleveland Book Week, Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald, hosts of the “Professional Book Nerds” podcast,…
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BookNon-European Peoples of South Africa
Ralph Johnson Bunche was among the most prominent sociologists, diplomats, civil rights and peace activists of the 20th century.
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BookThe Negro College Graduate
Along with Ralph Bunche and other important scholars, Johnson worked with Gunnar Myrdal on his epic study of race in America from 1938-1940.
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NewsWATCH: Poets From Twelve Literary & Performative Arts Bring Anisfield-Wolf To Public Transit
One idea to make the morning commute more bearable for Clevelanders? Add a bit of poetry. That theory was tested…
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NewsLatest Inter|Urban Mural Celebrates Tyehimba Jess’ “Olio”
Tyehimba Jess is a strikingly architectural poet. It makes sense that his 14-line poem, “Blind Tom Plays for Confederate Troops,…
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NewsAndrew Solomon’s “Far From The Tree” Finds A New Life On The Big Screen
Four years after Andrew Solomon took home the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf nonfiction prize for “Far from the Tree,” his work is…
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NewsCleveland Kids’ Book Bank Named Recipient Of 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Memorial Award
The Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank is a juggernaut. Less than 20 months after its founding in March 2016, it had…
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NewsMichelle Kuo’s “Reading With Patrick” Smashes Predictable White-Savior Tropes In The Classroom
Michelle Kuo, the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, describes herself as a shy child growing up in western Michigan who rarely…
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REVIEW: “Sing Unburied Sing” Fits Perfectly Into Jesmyn Ward’s Canon Of Southern Literature
The pages of Jesmyn Ward’s third novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” smell of Mississippi. Set in the same fictional town, Bois…
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NewsREVIEW: Adrian Matejka’s “Map To The Stars” Is An Extraordinary Ride
by Charles Ellenbogen Anisfield-Wolf award winner Adrian Matejka has produced another excellent book of poems. I chose the word ‘book’…
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NewsCleveland Book Week Highlights: Isabel Allende Speaks At The City Club Of Cleveland
During Cleveland Book Week, the incomparable Isabel Allende joked at age 75 about her new boyfriend, and about her approach…
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NewsCleveland Book Week Highlights: Tyehimba Jess At Karamu House For A Poetry “Clapback”
Tyehimba Jess came home to Karamu House to lift up “Olio,” his magnificently engineered collection of poems that explore black…
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NewsCleveland Book Week Highlights: “Hidden Figures” Author Margot Lee Shetterly In Conversation With Cleveland Students
Hundreds of Cleveland students joined author Margot Lee Shetterly at Cleveland State University in early September for a student-centric discussion…
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NewsOn The Ground In Ferguson And Beyond: Wesley Lowery On Black Lives Matter And Police Fatalities
Thanks to Wesley Lowery and his colleagues at the Washington Post, citizens anywhere can click on the newspaper’s “Fatal Force”…
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NewsGrant Opportunity For Ohio Libraries Brings Regional Literature To Readers
The State Library of Ohio is making it easier for residents to read excellent books with ties to our region,…