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    2014 Cincinnati Mennonite Arts Weekend Presenters Announced

    April 14, 2013

    Ah, spring. Don’t you wish you could bottle up that invigorating feeling the season inspires and crack it open on one of those bleak, waning days of winter? Well, it turns out—you can!

    Next February, try this: Come to Cincinnati for the 2014 Mennonite Arts Weekend and enjoy a refreshing dose of creative inspiration.

    You won’t want to miss the exciting lineup of artist-presenters, which includes:

    The Steel Wheels—American Roots folk music

    Eric Kaufmann—ceramic artist

    Randall Stoltzfus—painter

    Angie Clemens—music educator/song leader

    Jean Janzen—poet

    Kristina Glick—jewelry artist/metalsmith

    Karen Thiessen—textile ...

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    Critical Essays from Mennonite/s Writing VI in MQR

    February 10, 2013

    The most recent issue of The Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2013, contains critical and scholarly essays from Mennonite/s Writing VI, the conference held at EMU in March 2012, by Ervin Beck, John J. Fisher, Ann Hostetler, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Jesse Nathan, Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul Tiessen, as well as tributes to Ervin Beck, Omar Eby, Al Reimer, Elaine Sommers Rich, and Katie Funk Wiebe. For a table of contents and a link to the article by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, go to http://www.goshen.edu/mqr/pastissues/Jan13.html.

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    Jane Rohrer featured in The American Poetry Review

    January 17, 2013

    Jane Rohrer, author of Life after Death (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002), is featured in the Jan/Feb 2013 issue of The American Poetry Revew. A special supplement of twelve poems appears in this issue.

    A poem by Todd Davis also appears in this issue of APR.

    Congratulations to two fine Mennonite poets.

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    What's New in CMW in 2013

    January 1, 2013

    Our current journal issue features work by young and emerging writers and artists. We welcome submissions for the July issue on Food the and October issue on Humor. Send queries to cmw@goshen.edu.

    Click on "read more" below To see our upcoming issues and call for submissions.

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    Call For Creative Nonfiction-- Ruminate

    January 1, 2013

    Ruminate Magazine is a premier literary magazine compatible with the mission and vision of CMW. Therefore we offer the following call for submissions.

Recent Journal Discussion

  • Five Poems on Travel

    On May 7, 2013 Greta Holt wrote:

    These poems demonstrate the Anabaptist sense of living slightly off center, no matter where we are. It might feel good to shrug off our overactive, group conscience. To rough house and grow callouses. But we don’t. Thank you, Sarah.

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  • The Club

    On May 7, 2013 Greta Holt wrote:

    How easy it is to extend invitations, but how difficult it is when the needy want more. The realism of the story is served as Mrs. Sloan extends sincere, not showy, help to Cally, yet is not spared Cally’s overreach. Thank you, Lucy.

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  • Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen

    On May 7, 2013 Greta Holt wrote:

    The reader is seduced by the worth of the moments between man and boy. But the voice of the man is detached, and the whiff of blame disturbing. The ending is carefully foreshadowed and satisfying. Thank you, Nathan.

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