Center for Mennonite Writing

CMW Journal

Traditions in Translation

• Introduction

  by Becca J.R. Lachman and Anita Hooley Yoder

  In the history of the church, translation has always played ...

• Know Your Place: Writing as Identity

  by Anita Hooley Yoder

  The following is an adapted version of the closing sermon ...

• Three Poems

  by Britt Kaufmann

  The Heavens Are Falling, The Heavens Are Falling

  "He will ...

• Two Poems

  by Joseph Gascho

  Intro from the author: I sometimes wonder if there was ...

• Psalm of Roses, Wrecks, and Coming Up for Air

  by Barbara Esch Shisler

  For this one cold slip of sun
  skimming the anniversary ...

• Mamma

  by Greta Holt

  "Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your ...

• Reimagined Scripture

  by Becca J.R. Lachman

  *A version of these re-imagined Scriptures was shared in a ...

• Reimagined Scripture: Wives Like Us

  by Kirsten Beachy

  Intro from the author: This poem arrived in response to ...

• Two Songs

  by Addie Liechty

  Jesus, Teach me to Grieve (song lyrics*)

  There once was ...

• Translating Musical Traditions

  by Katie Graber

  Translating musical traditions is a dangerous business, complex on so ...

• And Zion Was Our Mournful Theme

  by Julie Swarstad Johnson

  Intro from the author: This poem takes its title from ...

• Paradise

  by Eileen R. Kinch

  Author's note:

  The lyric essay, a developing hybrid form ...

• Translating Rumi in Iran

  by Wally Shellenberger

  We were sipping hot tea on our friends' Persian carpets ...

• Three Poems

  by Julia Baker

  Intro from author: I wrote the poem "Sighted-Dark" during a ...

• What the Tree Remembers

  by Ivanna Johnson-McMurry

  As I walked out of the library and into the ...

• Sanctuary

  by Sandy Vrana

  Intro from the author: Holy Incarnation Church was open at ...