CMW Journal

The CMW Journal will be published bi-monthly. Each issue will typically focus on a particular theme, author, or genre within Mennonite Writing, and will include poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism.

Current Issue

Traditions in Translation

Vol. 11, No. 2

Co-editors, Becca J.R. Lachman and Anita Hooley Yoder

Current Articles

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 ...