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Jeff Gundy is Image Artist of the Month
August 12, 2010Jeff Gundy, featured poet in the current issue of the CMW Journal (see our home page), is the Image "Artist of the Month." See this link for details on Image Update:
http://imagejournal.org/page/artist-of-the-month/jeff-gundy-2
From the article: [Gundy's] poetry and essays are rooted in the Mennonite tradition, which he credits with giving him “the sense that things outside of my pathetic life matter, and that I ought to think about my own problems and ambitions in the context of something much larger.” From these roots he draws both a sense of humility and a prophetic impulse ...
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Todd Davis on Poetry Daily
July 30, 2010Poetry Daily will feature poems by Todd Davis on August 3 and August 10.
On August 3rd, in their "features" section, they will be featuring "The Girl Who Taught a Chicken to Walk Backwards," as part of a highlight for the 60th anniversary issue of Shenandoah.On August 10th they will feature "None of This Could Be Metaphor" as the daily poem while highlighting The Least of These, Davis's most recent collection, published by Michigan State University Press.
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In Our Next Issue . . .
July 16, 2010September 2010 -- Enabling Constraints: The Prophetic Art of Sylvia Gross Bubalo and Christine Wiebe
This issue will feature the poetry and art of Sylvia Gross Bubalo and Christine Wiebe, two women from Mennonite roots who made significant creative contributions in the visual arts and poetry. Guest edited by Ann Hostetler
Would you like to see your work in our Journal? Here is a preview of upcoming issues with submission deadlines. We will occasionally insert special features into forthcoming issues, such as a featured poet or a book review or a report on a special event. As always, we appreciate your ...
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Summer Reading Issue!
July 16, 2010Our featured poet for the July issue is the well-known, award-winning poet Jeff Gundy, who offers six new poems published here for the first time! Scroll down to the bottom of the "Journal" column on the left of our home page to find the poetry feature.
Then check out the creative and critical work in our biggest issue yet--on a best-selling, yet critically overlooked topic: serial fiction by and about Mennonites.
Ever wondered what was really in those Amish romance and mysteries? Or why they've become such a cultural phenomenon? Recent press in the publishing industry reports that "bonnet ...
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Former Goshen College President J. Lawrence Burkholder dies
June 24, 2010In 1971 Burkholder left the Ivy League to lead the small college in Northern Indiana he knew intimately. He returned to Goshen College to serve as its 11th president with the conviction that "Mennonites had something to contribute to the world, and I wanted to be part of it," he said.
Burkholder, who served as president until 1984, began his presidency with a simple religious service and the planting of 138 trees around campus. "I wanted to bring beauty to a campus that seemed somewhat barren," he said. "And I hoped to soften and humanize the image of the ...
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Inspiration for Mennonite Writers
June 24, 2010Old news for Mennonite writers from John Updike in 1951: "We do not need men like Proust and Joyce; men like this are a luxury, an aded fillip that an abundant culture can produce only after the more basic literary need has been filled. This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and do not transcend the limits of their age, but, working within the times, bring what is peculiar to the moment to glory. We need great artists who are willing to accept restrictions, and who ...
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Di Brandt wins Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism in Canada
June 21, 2010
Wider Boundaries of Daring:
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry
Di Brandt, editor, and Barbara Godard, editorPublished by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
has won the
2009 ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary
Criticism in Canadasee: http://www.brandonu.ca/app/news/home/home-20100610-001.html?uri=%2Fnews%2Findex.html
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Literary Reviews in the April & July Issues of MQR
June 15, 2010April 2010 Issue
Some New Voices in Mennonite Poetry: A Review Essay by Ann Hostetler
Keith Ratzlaff on Jean Janzen
Ami Regier on Leonard Neufeldt
Shirley Showalter on Connie Braun
http://www.goshen.edu/mqr/pastissues/Apr10.html
July 2010 Issue
Di Brandt on Yorifumi Yaguchi
Ervin Beck on Ken Reed
Wilbur Birky on Judy Clemens
See the Book Revew link on the MQR website
http://www.goshen.edu/mqr/pastissues/July10.html
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Mennonite Life Resurrected!
June 11, 2010June 14, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mennonite Life returns from the dead in online form
NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – Once again, Mennonite Life has risen from the dead.
Since 1946, when Bethel College began publishing the journal, Mennonite Life has been devoted to exploring and developing Mennonite experience. Its intended audience is scholars and academics as well as a wider literate readership interested in Mennonite matters.
From 1946-99, Mennonite Life was published in paper form. Starting with the March 2000 issue, it became a free, online-only journal. Over the decades of its existence, Mennonite Life has undergone many transitions in leadership ...
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Recent Reviews of Mennonite Literature - Connie Braun
June 10, 2010Connie Braun, The Steppes are the Colour of Sepia: A Mennonite Memoir. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2008.
REVIEWER
Jeff Gundy, Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio
http://www.grebel.uwaterloo.ca/academic/cgreview/reviews/01-09_mennonite_memoir.shtml
REVIEWER
Shirley Showalter, Vice President for Programs, Fetzer Institute
The the review in context at Shirley Showalter's Blog, 100 Memoirs: http://www.100memoirs.com/2010/05/another-mennonite-memoir-the-steppes-are-the-colour-of-sepia/
and in
Read Connie Braun's essay, “Silence, Memory and Imagination as Story: Canadian Mennonite Life Writing," in the Archives of the CMW Journal on this site.