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Call for Poetry Submissions - Anabaptist World
May 10, 2023New digital editor at Anabaptist World, Eileen Kinch, is accepting submissions for online poetry publication!
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Di Brandt wins Manitoba Arts Award for 2023
May 10, 2023The Manitoba Arts Council is pleased to announce that Di Brandt is the winner of the 2023 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction. This $30,000 prize is awarded annually to a professional artist or arts/cultural professional in recognition of the highest level of artistic excellence and contribution to the development of the arts in Manitoba. Brandt is the author of thirteen books of poetry and essays.
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Call for Papers - The Russlaeder Centenary
July 27, 2022The Russlaender Mennonites: War, Dislocation, and New Beginnings
July 14–15, 2023
A Conference Hosted by the Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies
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Hearing the Brush: The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer
May 13, 2022Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA
Hearing the Brush: The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer
April 6, 2022- July 10, 2022
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Mennonite/s Writing IX - Registration & Dates
May 1, 2022Mennonite/s Writing IX: Responding to the Past, Creating the Future
September 29-October 2, 2022 Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, USA
https://www.goshen.edu/academics/english/mennonites-writing/
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New Exhibit Dates! - The Rohrers
January 21, 2021Palmer Art Museum, The Pennsylvania State University
"Field Language," Paintings by Warren Rohrer
(free and open to the public with timed admission):Feb. 10-May 30, 2021
Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA - Paintings by Warren Rohrer and Poems by Jane Rohrer
April 6, 2022- July 10, 2022
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New and Forthcoming in the Journal of Mennonite Writing
October 23, 2020Our current issue commemorates Mennonite/s Writing IX, held onSeptember 29-October 2, 2022 at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, USA
Featured here are links to the keynote and banquet addresses, tributes to five shapers of the field, essays, poems, and links to music, as well as reviews of several new and important books.
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'The Tree of Life' by Sarah Klassen
October 2, 2020Sarah Klassen's book of poetry, The Tree of Life, is available for preorder now!
Advanced Praise:
A call to compassion, The Tree of Life is oxygen for the weary, and Klassen a prophet at the crossroads of our moment and the eternal. She invites us on a pilgrimage from primeval myth to dreams of paradise—through prairie picnics, temple ruins, across deserts alongside the displaced—into a place where the soul, though troubled, knows all manner of thing shall be well.—Angeline Schellenberg, author of Fields of Light and Stone
Tuned to time—ancient, apocalyptic, and current, these poems sing of pilgrimage, …
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New Book of Poetry by Patrick Friesen
October 2, 2020Patrick Friesen's latest book, Outlasting the Weather, is a collection of his poetry spanning from 1994-2020.
“The poems in this volume represent the second half of an already auspicious literary career that began in Manitoba and has continued unabated to this day in Victoria B.C.Outlasting the Weather, a collection twenty-six years in the making, displays an astonishing range of achievement from a writer who has continued to change and evolve while pushing the limits in exploring the human journey. Friesen has found great depth and solace in collaboration in theatre, dance, translation and music. Whether touching upon …
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Maggie Redekop and 'Making Believe'
September 25, 2020Maggie Redekop is a Professor Emerita of English at the University of Toronto. Her latest book is called Making Believe: Questions about Mennonites and Art. She describes the book as "part criticism, part memoir." It is currently available for purchase through the University of Manitoba press, linked here.
Check out this interview with her by Andrew Unger, linkedhere.