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In “Shine Bright,” Music Critic Danyel Smith Gets On Stage And Shimmers
In “Shine Bright,” music critic Danyel Smith makes it plain she wants “credit to be given where credit is due.” Subtitled “A Very…
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NewsJoseph Earl Thomas Named New Anisfield-Wolf Fellow At Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Joseph Earl Thomas expects to earn his doctorate in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024, but that road…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 1: Poet Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith, a 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for poetry, joins The Asterisk* to discuss what it means to…
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2022 Press Release: Winners Announced
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BookThe Trees
Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California and erstwhile cowboy, was at work on…
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BookAll That She Carried
Tiya Miles grew up in Cincinnati listening to family stories, a practice that whetted her appetite for history, sparked her…
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BookOf Fear and Strangers
In the introduction to “Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia,” George Makari describes a hinge moment in his…
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AuthorIshmael Reed
Ishmael Scott Reed, poet, novelist, playwright, lyricist, cartoonist, musician and founder of small presses and publications, has remade literature. He…
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BookThe Renunciations
Donika Kelly spent her first 13 years in Los Angeles, born into a time and place where tenderness, as she…
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NewsIntroducing Our Class of 2022
The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 87th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2022 recipients of the only…
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NewsDiversifying the Beer Industry “One Pint at A Time”
A 2014 road trip to a North Carolina brewery sparked the idea for Aaron Hosé’s film, “One Pint at a…
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NewsAuthor Daisy Hernández On Writing Personal Stories And What’s Next After “The Kissing Bug”
For most of her childhood, professor Daisy Hernández, believed her aunt Dora Capunay Sosa died from eating a contaminated apple….
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NewsHistorian Lillian Faderman Follows the Long-Winding Road of Liberation in “Woman”
What connects American Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet across 400 years to rapper Cardi B? The answer, for Lillian Faderman, is…
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NewsIn “Violeta,” Isabel Allende Gives Us the Grief We Need
By Brandi Larsen Isabel Allende has created a lifetime’s body of work full of essential reads. “Violeta,” her latest novel,…
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EventsA Tribute to Russell Atkins
Cave Canem and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards invite you to celebrate Black History Month by joining in “A Tribute to…
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NewsIn “Recitatif,” Toni Morrison Presents New Ways to Look at Race
“Recitatif,” a rare Toni Morrison short story, arrives in book form today with a rigorous, close reading from London critic…
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NewsMeet Samuel R. Delany, 2021 Lifetime Achievement Recipient
In a career spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing over 40 publications, Samuel R. Delany has written memoirs, novels, literary…
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NewsMeet James McBride, 2021 Winner for Fiction
Set in a fictional New York City public housing project in 1969, “Deacon King Kong” begins with a shooting. But…
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NewsGather In Poems: American Academy of Poetry’s Virtual Offering
Four Anisfield-Wolf poets distilled their lines into an hour-long symphony of 15 voices. All are chancellors of the American Academy…