Broadside Publishing
About 10 times a year the Broadside committee — composed of both faculty and students — publishes a piece of original creative writing in placard, or “broadside,” format. Each piece is individually signed by the author and distributed free of charge to a subscription list of about 250 people on campus. (Sorry, no mailed subscriptions.) Since 1976 the outstanding writing of students, faculty and staff members, as well as visitors to campus, has been honored by such publication.
Poems, songs, and short fiction are welcome in the series. Authors are also encouraged to submit an illustration or visual design for the publication, which is produced by a paid student assistant.
Archives
See https://www.goshen.edu/academics/english/publishing/ for a more recent list of titles.
The Sistine Chapel Took Four Years to Complete, by Jakyra Green
Crystal Gunslingers, by Patrick Webb
When Prufrock Falls in Love, by Emmalene Rupp
El sol te sequira’, by Greta Klassen
Mujer Digna, Worthy Woman, by Lucia Martinez
Elements of a Daydream, by Anna Keller
Supercoiled, by Siana Emery
Iris, by Maris Opsahl
Leaves, by Jose Chiquito
Song of the Maples, by Shari Wagner
“She” Is Still an Object, by Madeline Gerig
Technophobia, by Peter Reimer
On The Refrain Taken From An Old Hymn, by Micah Towery
“She” is Still an Object, by Madeline Gerig
Where Grass is Pressed, by Helen Frost
Unlit, by Armarlie Grier
Minor Dyslexia, by Anya Slabaugh
Glass House, by Alma Miller
Creator, by Sara Klassen
The Year of Not Dancing, by C.L. Dallat, from The Year of Not Dancing(Blackstaff Press, 2009)
Novgorod Sidings, by Anne-Marie Fyfe, from Understudies: New & Selected Poems (Seren Books, 2010)
Exposure, by Jess Sprunger
Who Sings of Peace is My Kind of Child, by Maddie Gerig
Life Makes Me Itch and Gag, by Emma Gerig
Gold, by Kate Stoltzfus
I’ll Catch You Up, by Todd Davis
Confessional, by Mary Roth
Ya Basta, by Cora Broaddus
Rae, by Hayley Brooks
Excerpt from Elsewhere, California, by Dana Johnson
The Art of a Fall, by Kate Stoltzfus
Remains/After Teatime, by Sara Klassen
Untitled, by Kate Yoder
My Smokescreen Inheritance, by Abby Hertzler
Heat Syncope, by Luis Urrea
Heritage, by Jamie Parker
Potion, by Ted Maust
Family Room, by Lavonne Shetler
Elegy, by Peter Fallon
Yehuda Amichai In Late November, by Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Canary, by Phil Stoesz
Trapped, by Brian O’Leary
The Pen, by Kim Short
Piping, by Haven Kimmel
Martyr, by Ann Hostetler
City song, by Lewis Caskey
Creator God, by Linea Geiser
Courage, by Lisa Perkins
Moving Out, by Sandra Gilbert
The Midnight, by Jacob Schlabach
Garbage Morning, by Sarah Rich
Untitled, by Abe Pauls
There didn’t seem to be a way out, by Michael Miller, illustrated by Hannah Sandvold
Chicken Crossing, by Laura Nimigan
Firefly Graveyard, by Daniel Vader
Tabasco the Bull, by Ben Jacobs
Mixed Messages, by M. Letsch
Notable Broadside Writers:
- Philip Metres, poet
- Dana Johnson, fiction writer
- Tony Macaulay, Northern Ireland, author
- Rhoda Janzen, poet and memoirist
- B.H. Fairchild, poet
- Cornelius Eady, poet
- Pat Mora, Chicana poet
- Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American author
- David Dabydeen, novelist and poet, Guyana and England
- Donald Hall, poet, New Hampshire
- Denise Levertov, poet, Seattle, Wash.
- David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest
- Seamus Heaney, Ireland, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature
- Garrison Keillor of radio’s “Prairie Home Companion”
- Elliot Wigginton, founder of the Foxfire project
- Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
- William Stafford, poet, National Book Award
- Peter Fallon, Ireland, poet and publisher
- Colville Young, poet, Governor-General of Belize
- Niyi Osundare, Nigeria, Commonwealth Poetry Prize
- Alastair Reed, poet, The New Yorker
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia, poet
Broadsides By Active Mennonite Writers Include:
- Julia Kasdorf, Carnegie poetry prize
- Rudy Wiebe, Canada, novelist, Governor-General’s Prize
- Jean Janzen, poet, Fresno, Calif.
- Juanita Brunk, poet, New York City, N.Y.
- Keith Ratzlaff, poet, Iowa
- Janet Kauffman, novelist, Michigan
- David Waltner-Toews, poet, Toronto, Canada