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Ta-Nehisi Coates + Roxane Gay Enter the Writers’ Room, But Comics Still Need a Jolt of Diversity
July 25, 2016
by Valentino L. Zullo, Teaching Fellow, Kent State University and Ohio Center for the Book Scholar-in-Residence at Cleveland Public Library The…
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Join Us For “An Evening With Rita Dove And Friends” On September 14
July 13, 2016
Rita Dove is coming home. The former poet laureate and Akron native will return to the region that raised her…
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Public Art Inspired By Anisfield-Wolf Canon Makes A Splash Across Cleveland
June 24, 2016
Riders heading to downtown Cleveland on the RTA’s Red Line may have noticed quite a few more pops of color adorning…
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Meet Our 2016 Winners This Fall In Northeast Ohio
June 15, 2016
Following in our tradition, each of our winners will speak at the awards ceremony, and each will talk and read…
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An Overlooked Classic, “Nervous Conditions” Is A Book That Deserves A Second Life In The Mainstream
May 27, 2016
by Gail Arnoff “I was not sorry when my brother died.” So begins Tsi Tsi Dangarembga’s semi-autobiographical novel Nervous…
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“I’m Not Racist” Documentary Features Millennial Views On Privilege, Power And Identity
May 26, 2016
In one compelling segment from the 2014 documentary, “I’m Not Racist…Am I?” high school students huddle around a board game…
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#WritersOnTrump Push Back On Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee
May 25, 2016
Five winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book award in fiction are standing up to publicly, “as a matter of conscience, oppose,…
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New “Bench By The Road” Marks Underground Railroad History In Cleveland’s University Circle
May 18, 2016
Thinking about gaps in our communal memory has long occupied Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. In a 1989 interview, she said:…
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Cleveland-Area Students Get A Dose Of Anisfield-Wolf Poetry, Craft Their Own Verses (Listen In!)
May 3, 2016
National Poetry Month, celebrated every April for the past 20 years, became a little less abstract for Cleveland students this…
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REVIEW: Andrew Solomon’s “Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years”
April 22, 2016
When Andrew Solomon went to Finland to promote The Noonday Demon, his ground-breaking 2001 book on depression, he landed on…
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READ: Marilyn Chin’s New Poem, “Peony”
April 19, 2016
Hours before accepting her 2015 Anisfield-Wolf award, Marilyn Chin claimed “activist poet” as her mantle: “I’ve been writing poetry to…
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At The Cleveland Humanities Festival, Author Kamila Shamsie Asks “Why Weep for Stones?”
April 12, 2016
Novelist Kamila Shamsie has a knack for titles. She called her talk in Cleveland “Why Weep for Stones?” and…
