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NewsTommy Orange Shares The Urban Native American Experience In “There There” During Cleveland Book Week
Novelist Tommy Orange, cast in the warm glow of the lights at St. John Episcopal Church, brought his Anisfield-Wolf award-winning…
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NewsTracy K. Smith Examines The Duty Of Poetry In Turbulent Times During Cleveland Book Week
With the William G. Mather steamship providing a nautical backdrop, poet Tracy K. Smith brought her work to the shores…
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NewsYoung Cleveland Poet Mesmerizes Crowd At 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ceremony
For the past decade, Northeast Ohioans gathered for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ceremonies have celebrated a young poet alongside the…
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2019 IdeaStream: Author Andrew Delbanco
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2019 Sound of Ideas: Poet Tracy K. Smith
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2019 Sound of Ideas: Author Tommy Orange
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2019 Sound of Ideas: Poet Sonia Sanchez
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2019 Awards Ceremony – Highlights
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2019 Awards Program
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2019 Awards Ceremony – Full Length
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NewsSonia Sanchez Invokes The Political At Kent State University For Cleveland Book Week
Poet Sonia Sanchez launched Cleveland Book Week 2019 with a rousing, reflective performance at Kent State University, as part of…
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Cleveland Book Week 2019
The 2019 showcase, which ran from Sept. 18-28, celebrated present and past Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners, while offering a number…
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NewsReflecting On My Immigrant Experience Through Anisfield-Wolf Award Winning Books
For a few days in June, I sat down in an old building at Case Western Reserve University among 20…
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NewsREVIEW: Sarah M. Broom Brings New Orleans To Life With “The Yellow House”
The typical story set in New Orleans begins and ends somewhere in the French Quarter, but Sarah M. Broom’s meaty…
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NewsN. Scott Momaday Honored With Dayton Literary Peace Prize
At 85, N. Scott Momaday – considered the dean of Native American literature – is attracting renewed accolades for his…
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NewsThe Free Black Women’s Library Is A National Movement Uplifting Black Female Authors
In 2015, Brooklyn, New York-based artist OlaRonke Akinmowo lugged 100 books — all written by black women — to a…
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NewsWith Release Of “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead Grabs The Spotlight Once Again
“Even in death the boys were trouble.” Those seven words open “The Nickel Boys,” the latest novel from Colson Whitehead,…
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NewsEugene Gloria Mixes Cultural Influences With New Poetry Collection, “Sightseer In This Killing City”
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
by Lisa Nielson A colleague at the Cleveland Council on World Affairs generously nominated me for a professional exchange, sponsored…