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Episode 4: Novelist Namwali Serpell
All too often, African countries, African literatures, get thrown together and the differences between them are elided. What is Zambian…
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Podcasts
Episode 3: Poet Ilya Kaminsky
What I was trying to do being hard of hearing, was to navigate the questions of: At which point is…
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Education
The Music of Tommy Orange’s “There There”
Lisa Nielson is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. She has a PhD in historical musicology, with…
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Podcasts
Episode 2: Poet Sonia Sanchez
You know what I found out about my teaching? My teaching made me much more human. Some of the ideas…
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News
Add Our New Podcast, The Asterisk*, to Your Playlist
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is proud to present The Asterisk*, a new podcast hosted by Karen R. Long, manager of…
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Podcasts
Episode 1: Historian Eric Foner
“When somebody told me that they had just seen the Confederate flag on TV being carried around the Capitol, my…
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Education
Teaching Kevin Young’s “Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News”
This lesson plan provides background information, discussion questions, key quotations and activities to help explore Kevin Young’s 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Award-winning…
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Education
Teaching Diversity in the Eras of Plague and Pandemic
Gabrielle Bychowski is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, teaching courses on transgender and intersex history, disability culture,…
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Education
Reading Anisfield-Wolf Winners’ Picture Books
This lesson plan guides educators in teaching children’s books to young adult and adult learners. In addition to offering some…
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Education
“Why Black, Not Blue?”: Redefining the Color Black in Children’s Picture Books
Cara Byrne, PhD is a lecturer in English at Case Western Reserve University In her 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award…
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News
Bill To Create “Toni Morrison Day” Headed To Vote In Ohio State Senate
“Quiet as it is kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941 . . . Not even the…
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Rita Dove Featured On New Podcast By Akron Symphony Orchestra
Fans of Rita Dove’s 2009 poetry collection “Sonata Mulattica” can dive into the story behind the poems in a new podcast produced…
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Watch The 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Enjoy this reimagined ceremony turned documentary, streaming now. It is hosted by Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. and features…
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Education
Shakespeare Meets Tommy Orange
Students will explore author Tommy Orange’s development of “There There” and its connection to William Shakespeare The Tempest. Developed by…
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News
Our 2020 Cleveland Book Week In Review
Our slate of virtual programming during this year’s Cleveland Book Week means you have continued access, including our collaborations with…
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2020 Awards Documentary
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Events
Sudanese-American Poet Safia Elhillo and Twelve Literary Arts on “The Weight and Opportunity of Living in the Hyphen”
Award-winning poet Safia Elhillo will be joined by acclaimed poets Phil Metres, Stephanie Ginese, Noor Hindi, and Geramee Hensley as…
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Events
Case Western Reserve University: 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Winner David Livingstone Smith
The University of New England philosopher, ethicist and author of the new book “On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist…
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Education
Discovering “Reading-in-Place” — the Act of Joining Stories and Geography
This lesson plan thinks through the potential of utilizing Cleveland’s Inter|Urban mural project as a teaching tool to explore the…
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Education
Exploring Magical Thinking Within “Olio” and “The Second Founding”
Students will identify examples of magical thinking in poetry, song, and nonfiction texts (“The Second Founding” by Eric Foner and…