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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…
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NewsIncarcerated Youth Connect To Literature, Get Published Through Writers In Residence Program
Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Zachary Thomas has sparked an idea that is igniting across Northeast Ohio. In 2016, as a sophomore at…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Fellow Leila Chatti Debuts New Poem “The Rules”
“The Rules,” a new poem by Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Leila Chatti, graced the inboxes of more than 350,000 subscribers, a landmark…
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NewsThe Mystery Of Edith Anisfield Wolf, Founder Of Our Book Prize
by Lisa Nielson Sometimes when I need serious advice, I visit Edith. Edith Anisfield Wolf, the founder of the Anisfield-Wolf…
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NewsThe Enduring Legacy Of Gordon Parks Featured At Cleveland Museum Of Art
Photographer, filmmaker, poet and novelist Gordon Parks died in 2006 at the age of 93. But the 1998 winner of…
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NewsFour Cleveland Students Honored For Their Social Justice Work
Sophomore Elizabeth Metz was dismayed by students at Beachwood High School arguing whether slavery or the Holocaust was worse. Administrators…
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NewsWhat Anisfield-Wolf Taught Me: Finding Strength In My Immigrant Identity
by Jessica Yang I was five when I came to the U.S. from China. My first experiences of America were…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf -Winning Authors Nab Two Pulitzer Prizes
David W. Blight and Brent Staples – two Anisfield-Wolf Book Award recipients – discovered this week that each had won…
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News“A World Built On Bondage”: Anisfield-Wolf Authors Close The 2019 Virginia Festival Of The Book
Eighteen months after the Unite the Right racist violence wracked Charlottesville, the 25th anniversary of the Virginia Festival of the…
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BookThere There
There’s been a lot of reservation literature written. I wanted to have my characters struggle in the way that I struggled, and the way that I see other Native people struggle, with identity and authenticity.
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BookThe War Before the War
With a combination of deep learning, eloquence and a deft, original way of considering our national history and literature, [Delbanco] documents the human mise-en-scène in a way that matters today.
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AuthorSonia Sanchez
What I attempted to do, and I think all the other black arts poets attempted to do, is that we were about putting the African American and African back on the world stage.