“I’ve always felt one step removed from things because I’ve always felt I’ve been watching. I wasn’t entirely there. There was a part of me that was always milking details for a story…I think it’s the lot of the writer.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2007 Anisfield-Wolf award winner.
Anisfield-Wolf Authors Protest “Muslim Ban” In An Open Letter To President Trump
February 21, 2017
Sixty-six writers and artists – including seven Anisfield-Wolf recipients and two jury members – wrote an open letter to President…
Watch Henry Louis Gates’ New Series, “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise”
November 14, 2016
What if Martin Luther King Jr woke up and asked, “What happened since I’ve been gone?” The answer is the…
“An Evening With Rita Dove & Friends” Captures 30 Years Of The Poet’s Greatest Verses
November 8, 2016
Each time poet and Akron native Rita Dove speaks in Northeast Ohio, she begins with an acknowledgement of home. Her…
Y'I Oche
May 9, 2012
Amanda is just awesome. Maybe not to some,but every writer is. (Keep this in your archives esp.the name!)