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NewsVIDEO: Junot Diaz On Winning An Anisfield-Wolf Award For “The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao”
Fresh off the paperback release of his newest work, This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz swung by Cleveland…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf SAGES Professor Debunks Myths About The Harem
In the harem, women did not go naked. Nor did they wear flimsy, see-through harem pants. Despite the panting Western…
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NewsVIDEO: Wole Soyinka On Winning A Lifetime Achievement Award
At the conclusion of this year’s ceremony, a number of Nigerians in attendance approached our lifetime achievement winner Wole Soyinka,…
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NewsVIDEO: A. Van Jordan On Winning An Anisfield-Wolf Award
A. Van Jordan made an October appearance at Market Garden Brewery’s Brews & Prose event, sharing snippets from his latest work, “The…
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NewsLangston Hughes’ Boyhood Home Undergoes Complete Renovation In Cleveland
The wood-frame Cleveland house where Langston Hughes once scribbled teenaged insights is back from the brink. Four years ago its…
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NewsVIDEO: 2013 Winner Eugene Gloria On Winning The 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Poetry
Eugene Gloria‘s My Favorite Warlord earned praise from the Anisfield-Wolf jury for his “vivid and striking” work examining masculinity, identity, and…
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NewsNew PBS Series, “Many Rivers To Cross,” Explores The Depth Of African-American History
If you follow Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Twitter or Facebook, you are probably already privy to the bevy of heavy…
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NewsStephen L. Carter Talks Civility In Politics At PlayhouseSquare
As guests began to trickle in to the Ohio Theater at Playhouse Square, an older woman surveyed the crowd and…
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NewsJunot Diaz Ponders Identity And Passion For Writing At Cleveland State University Keynote
Junot Diaz did not dress up for his talk. He wore black jeans, worn boots and his white shirttails out…
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NewsVIDEO: Kevin Powers, Author of The Yellow Birds, On Winning The 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award
Kevin Powers‘ The Yellow Birds has been called a “beautiful and horrifying trance of a book,” an unnerving look at…
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NewsVIDEO: Laird Hunt On Winning A 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Fiction
While Laird Hunt was in Cleveland for the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf ceremony, we managed to nab him for a brief interview…
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NewsPoetry Anthology Published To Honor Malala Yousafzai
October 9 is the first anniversary of the grim day that masked gunmen stormed onto a bus in Pakistan and…
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NewsVIDEO: Andrew Solomon On Winning The 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award
We caught up with Andrew Solomon a few hours before the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf ceremony to ask him his thoughts on…
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NewsA. Van Jordan Remixes Film And Poetry For Latest Work, “The Cineaste”
When the starter failed Tuesday in A. Van Jordan’s car, the poet leased a rental and made a deadline dash…
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NewsVeterans Flock To Kevin Powers’ Message Of Resiliency And Courage At CWRU Event
Kevin Powers didn’t flinch when the novelist Thrity Umrigar asked him a pointed question—had he considered incorporating substantial Iraqi characters…
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News“We Are All Political”: Poets Eugene Gloria & Kazim Ali Move The Crowd At MOCA
Eugene Gloria says that he is fascinated by failure. He was quick to describe a particular poem or two as…
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NewsNew Film, “American Promise,” Follows One Young Boy Through 13 Years Of School
In at least one way, Joe Brewster sounds like most fathers. “I want my son to have the best education…
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NewsWhat’s In A Name? The Politics Behind Selecting Your Baby’s Name
Every afternoon, I wait in my children’s grade school library with the other parents for pick-up. The principal reads off…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Book Awards Profiled In Belt Magazine’s Premiere Issue
Several years ago, Clevelander Anne Trubek attended the Anisfield-Wolf ceremony with an interest in hearing that year’s crop of winners…
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