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Through the Sycamores - Shari Wagner's new website
January 28, 2016Shari M. Wagner, named Indiana Poet Laureate, has created a stunning web site with information about Indiana poets and the places they write about. View it here: Through the Sycamores.
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Lois Gunden Clemens to be honored on Wed. Jan. 27
January 25, 2016GC alumna Lois Mary Gunden Clemens '36 will be honored posthumously on Wednesday, Jan. 27 at the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. as Righteous Among the Nations in the first such official ceremony held in the United States. President Barack Obamawill speak at the ceremony.
During World War II, in a French Mediterranean town far from her home in Goshen, Ind., Lois served with Mennonite Central Committee U.S. (MCC U.S.) running a children's home. She risked her own safety by helping save the lives of Jewish children during the Holocaust.
Lois is only the fourth ...
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Winterkill: new poems by Todd Davis just published
January 23, 2016Todd Davis's new book of poetry, Winterkill, has just been published by Michigan State University Press. Winterkill is Davis's fifth book of poems and is praised by Stephen Dunn, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, as having "just the right balance of reverence, precision, and quiet indictment . . .which means it does not shy away from death, or the predatory, or the speaker's involvement in nature's processes." According to Gray's Sporting Journal, Davis "observes nature in the great tradition of Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Jim Harrison," offering an unflinching portrait of the cycles of ...
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Shari Wagner named Poet Laureate of Indiana
November 19, 2015Shari Miller Wagner, author of two volumes of poetry and co-author of a memoir, has been named Poet Laureate of Indiana. She will serve from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2017.
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After Identity: Mennonites Writing in North America - just published
November 17, 2015This landmark collection of scholarly and critical essays on Mennonite Literature has just been published by Penn State University Press.
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-07037-7.html
After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America is edited by Robert Zacharias, and includes essays by Ervin Beck, Di Brandt, Jeff Gundy, Ann Hosteler, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Royden Loewen, Jesse Nathan, Magdalena Redekop, Hildi Froese Tiessen, Paul Tiessen.
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Bob Johnson is Short Story Contest Winner
August 21, 2015Robert (Bob) Johnson of South Bend, Indiana won first place in the 2015 Philadelphia Stories Short Fiction Contest. His story "Bird Fever" was chosen by Bonnie Jo Campbell as “a smart, compelling story that gets to the heart of the problem a couple is having and will continue to have.” First prize includes a $2,000 cash award, an invitation to an awards dinner, and publication in the Fall 2015 issue of Philadelphia Stories.
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New book of poems by Leonard Neufeldt
July 23, 2015Painting Over Sketches of Anatolia is Leonard Neufeldt's seventh book of poems, just released by Signature Editions.
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Abbie Landis wins Award for Documentary Essay
July 21, 2015Awarded by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
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Jean Janzen, What the Body Knows, published
July 21, 2015Jean Janzen's latest book of poetry, What the Body Knows, is the 12th book in the Dreamseeker Poetry series published by Cascadia Publishing Company.
“Jean Janzen addresses her treasured topics—desire, mystery, language, family and heritage, music, embodied spirituality—with confidence and grace. ‘Write it, the hunger and the song,’ says one poem. And she does, brilliantly. Janzen’s vision has never been clearer; her words have never confessed more truth. This book took over 80 years to write, and its final, passionate message is “mercy,” a resounding ‘Yes.’”
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We mourn the loss of Joel Kauffmann--writer, humorist, and communicator
May 14, 2015Joel Kauffmann died on May 7 and was honored in a memorial service at College Mennonite Church on Monday May 10, 2015.