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New Publication – Storage Issues by Suzanne Kay Miller
January 31, 2011
Storage Issues, poetry by Suzanne Kay Miller written between 1988 and 2008, reflects on being a Mennonite woman in a modern world. The work is part of the DreamSeeker Poetry Series produced by the Cascadia Publishing House, and can be ordered from Cascadia, Amazon, Barnes and Noble , or your local bookstore.
From the publisher:
Storage Issues pictures an individual wandering through the remains of communal life. These personal lyric and narrative poems search for meaning in the background, events, and concerns of one Mennonite woman’s existence. The poems invoke archetypal help and seek elemental order, but they …
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The Least of These, Todd Davis's new book of poetry
October 16, 2009Michigan State University Press will publish Todd Davis's most recent book of poetry in January 2010. Copies can be proe-ordered on Amazon.com. Todd's work has been featured on The Writer's Almanac. This is his third book of poems.
http://www.amazon.com/Least-These-Todd-F-Davis/dp/0870138758/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2
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The Illuminations, translated by Keith Miller
September 23, 2009Rimbaud's Illuminations, freshly translated by Keith Miller, have just been published by Quinx Books and are available for purchase on Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Illuminations-Arthur-Rimbaud/dp/1448637295/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253619577&sr=1-1
One of these translations will appear in the November/December issue of the CMW Journal, dedicated to new poetry by writers from Mennonite contexts.
To learn more about Miller's translations and his other work, visit his website at www.millerworlds.com
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Elise Hofer Derstine wins 2nd Place in Larry Neal Writer's Competition
May 26, 2009Elise Hofer Derstine, a 2004 graduate of Goshen College, won second place in the Larry Neal Writers' Competition sponsored by the Washington, DC Commission on the Art and Humanities. Derstine won the award for three unpublished poems submitted in the adult poetry division. Last year Derstine won third place in the same division of the competition. For further information about the Larry Neal Awards, see http://dcarts.dc.gov/dcarts/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=528384
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Yaguchi poetry featured in "For a Beautiful Planet"
April 24, 2009Thirteen poems by Yorifumi Yaguchi have appeared in the anthology "For a Beautiful Planet: Voices from Contemporary Sixteen Poets of Japan, 2009" published in 2009 in Osaka by Chikurinkan. Two of the poems--"The Earthquake" and "When the Earthquake"--are based on incidents during his recent visit to China, as reported in Wilbur Birky's journal in Issue 2 of the CMW journal.
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"Dinner . . ." by Jesse Nathan just released
April 24, 2009Jesse Nathan has just published a chapbook with Milk Machine Press in Oakland, California. This limited edition of 250 copies, is accompanied by a CD with Nathan’s readings of the poems in concert with original compositions by Chris Janzen . The book contains seventeen poems - one poem for each guest at a dinner party thrown by our gracious host, Virginia Woolf. The chapbook is entitled:
Dinner, or A Deranged Event Staged in a Theoretical Mansion in Which Time and History Have Been Grossly Dismembered and What We Know as the Laws of Physics Wildly Subverted, Conducted as an Inquiry … -
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Special Issue of CMW Journal on Yorifumi Yaguchi
January 15, 2009The second issue of CMW Journal will be devoted to Yorifumi Yaguchi, acclaimed Japanese poet who is also a Mennonite lay pastor. Disillusioned with Buddhism as a force for peace in Japan, Yaguchi discovered Mennonite missionaries in Japan after World War II and was delighted to find a religion of peace. Subsequently, Yaguchi attended the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana during the 1960s, and became a Mennonite. While in the United States, he published several chapbooks of poetry with the Pinchpenny Press at Goshen College. Upon returning to Japan, he became an active lay pastor at a Mennonite …
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Helen Alderfer's collected poems published by Cascadia
January 13, 2009Helen Wade Alderfer has long been known in Mennonite publishing, as the editor of Christian Living for 25 years, and On the Line for 14 years, as well as editor of A Farthing in Her Hand . Fewer people know that Alderfer has also been a life-long poet and devoted member of a writing group. Now, for the first time, Helen's poetry has been collected in a single volume, The Mill Grinds Fine , and co-published by Cascadia Publishing House with Herald Press.
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School of Writing at CMU announces Spring 2009 faculty
November 24, 2008The School of Writing at Canadian Mennonite University announces Spring 2009 faculty:
Poetry—Barbara Nickel
Intermediate Fiction—David Elias
Advanced Fiction—David Bergen
Creative Nonfiction—Myrna Kostash
Life Writing—Joanne Klassen & Eleanor ChornoboyFor more information & an application, visit http://www.cmu.ca/schoolofwriting or e-mail: SchoolofWriting@cmu.ca
The School of Writing at CMU is a program of CMU Continuing Education and the Department of English. In 2009 it will run from Monday to Friday, May 4-8. The School offers participatory workshops on writing Fiction (Advanced and Intermediate), Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction and Life Writing, along with one-on-one meetings with instructors. Participants will have opportunities to meet and learn …
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Yorifumi Yaguchi Memoir Published
November 15, 2008The Wing-Beaten Air: My Life and My Writing, a memoir by Yorifumi Yaguchi, has just been published by Good Books.
From the publisher:
Acclaimed Japanese poet, Yorifumi Yaguchi, has turned his writing attention to telling baldly what he experienced as a child growing up on the island of Honshu in the late 1930s and '40s.
His piercing and disarming prose takes us to his family's vegetable farm within earshot of the sea. We go with him to his grandfather's Buddhist temple, where Yaguchi discovered ninja stories and where the air was as clear as the temple bell that …