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The year before I was old enough to drive, [my mother] let me practice steering the car on long stretches of empty highway. I’d reach across the center console and take the wheel, leaning into her, my back against her chest, following the arc of the sun west toward home.

All too often, African countries, African literatures, get thrown together and the differences between them are elided. What is Zambian…

What I was trying to do being hard of hearing, was to navigate the questions of: At which point is…

Lisa Nielson is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. She has a PhD in historical musicology, with…

You know what I found out about my teaching? My teaching made me much more human. Some of the ideas…

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is proud to present The Asterisk*, a new podcast hosted by Karen R. Long, manager of…

“When somebody told me that they had just seen the Confederate flag on TV being carried around the Capitol, my…

This lesson plan guides educators in teaching children’s books to young adult and adult learners. In addition to offering some…

“Quiet as it is kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941 . . . Not even the…

Fans of Rita Dove’s 2009 poetry collection “Sonata Mulattica” can dive into the story behind the poems in a new podcast produced…

Our slate of virtual programming during this year’s Cleveland Book Week means you have continued access, including our collaborations with…

Award-winning poet Safia Elhillo will be joined by acclaimed poets Phil Metres, Stephanie Ginese, Noor Hindi, and Geramee Hensley as…

The University of New England philosopher, ethicist and author of the new book “On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist…

Students will identify examples of magical thinking in poetry, song, and nonfiction texts (“The Second Founding” by Eric Foner and…

Kirsten L. Parkinson is the director of the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature at Hiram College. Teaching world literature…

Zachary Thomas is the co-founder of Writers in Residence, which facilitates creative writing workshops for the adjudicated juvenile residents throughout…

Students get an introduction to Adrian Matejka’s “The Big Smoke” and its connections to Ralph Ellison and Shakespeare. Developed by…

Students will analyze Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic.” Developed by Charles Ellenbogen, literature and language teacher at Campus International High School.

Viewers will have the opportunity to stream free Cleveland International Film Festival documentaries, all with an Anisfield-Wolfian flavor, from September…

A virtual conversation between Charles King, our 2020 winner for nonfiction for “Gods of the Upper Air” and Anisfield-Wolf juror…