We’d like to welcome you to the Cleveland Humanities Collaborative’s first annual Anisfield-Wolf Reflection Exhibition. Due to our inability to celebrate together in person this year, we’ve instead decided to host the Exhibition online. We had many wonderful submissions this year, and are excited to share them with you! Several authors have graciously submitted audio files of them reading their submissions, so we could experience what it would have been like to hear them read their work in person. All of our artists have given their consent to allow us to display their work publicly.
Prompt 1: Choose any passage from a previous Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner from the last 10 years. Please visit https://www.anisfield-wolf.org/winners/winners-by-year/ for a list of all past winners.
Rebecca Hardy and Ashley Serraglio: Students from Ursuline College
- Poem: “Self-evident Truths”
- Inspired by Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water, “Declaration” (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
Ashley Serraglio: Student from Ursuline College
- Poem: “We Wade”
- Inspired by Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water, “Declaration” (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
Emilia Wolfenbarger: Student from Ursuline College
- Poem: “Self-Evident”
- Inspired by Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water, “Declaration” (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
Ashtyn Morris: Student from Baldwin Wallace University
- Essay: “A Call for Judicial Reform in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2018)
Cheryl D’Mello: Lecturer at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)
- Essay: “The Indian Within”
- Inspired by Tommy Orange’s There, There (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
Prompt 2: Choose an image from the INTER|URBAN project, and discuss/consider its relationship to the principles of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
Zachary Bost: Student from Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)
- Untitled Essay
- Inspired by Image 1
Gwennita Hines: Student from Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)
- Poem: “What Do You See Through Me?”
- Inspired by Image 1
Christina Edgington: Student from Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)
- Poem: “Geometry”
- Inspired by Image 2
Image 1: Amanda King, documentary photo by Peter Larson
Image 2: Collaboration by Jasper Wong, Jeff Gress, Joe Lanzilotta, and Erin Guido, documentary photograph by Brandon Shigeta
Prompt 3: Discuss a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and its relationship to the principles of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
Danielle Anikey: Student from Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)
- Poem: “Tomorrow is Now”
- Essay: “Thank you, Dr. King”
Thank you to everyone who contributed submissions to this year’s exhibition, and special thanks to the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and the Cleveland Foundation for their support!
