CLEVELAND, Ohio — Until early in 2023, I didn’t realize the literary landscape here nurtured poets and writers the way it does.

From East Side to West Side, I can find a writers group (or a book club), and I don’t need to put much energy into searching for a writing workshop like the one held last Friday and Saturday at the Main Branch of the Cleveland Public Library.

But wait, there’s more.

As helpful as I found the latter, a similar one this weekend might, well … trump it. Because back in town for its 90th anniversary is the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards , which features a full slate of workshops and lectures Saturday — all designed to highlight the “power of literature to open and challenge minds.”

I’d heard a lot about the award. A South Euclid librarian mentioned it to me a han

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