We’d like to welcome you to the Cleveland Humanities Collaborative’s second annual Anisfield-Wolf Reflection Exhibition. We had many wonderful submissions this year, and are excited to share them with you! Several authors have graciously submitted audio or video 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. Last year’s exhibition can be viewed here.
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.
- Essay: “Teaching What I Preach”
- Inspired by Andrew Delbanco’s The War Before the War (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
- Essay: “Embracing Silence, a Revolution of Self-Acceptance”
- Inspired by Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2020)
Louise Prochaska: Retired English Teacher and Professor of Theology at Notre Dame College
- Poems: “Orvil Red Feather,” “Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield,” and “Tony Loneman”
- Inspired by Tommy Orange’s There, There (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
Mary Abuamsha: Student from Ursuline College
- Poem: “Justice”
- Inspired by Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water, “Declaration” (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
Sara Boyer: Student from Ursuline College
- Poem: “Declaration of Independence: A Transcription”
- Inspired by Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water, “Declaration” (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
Jaclyn Gilmore: Student from Ursuline College
- Poem: “Untitled”
- Inspired by Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water, “Declaration” (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
Maria Regas: Student from Ursuline College
- Poem: “American Vile”
- Inspired by Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water, “Declaration” (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
Annamarie Trantham: Student from Ursuline College
- Poem: “Power”
- Inspired by Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water, “Declaration” (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
Chantaisa White: Student from Ursuline College
- Poem: “Eventually”
- Inspired by Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water, “Declaration” (Anisfield-Wolf Class of 2019)
Prompt #3: Discuss a passage (either as a whole, or focusing on a specific section) from Zora Neale Hurston’s essay, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” and its relationship to the principles of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
Joanna Klingenstein: Research Assistant, Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education; Graduate Student in CWRU’s Religious Studies Program
- Oil Painting: “The Cosmic Zora”
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!
