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" O, let my books be then the eloquence. "
-- Shakespeare

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.

The Broadside series has included works by these noted writers
as a result of their visits to campus:

Rhoda Janzen
B.H. Fairchild
Cornelius Eady
Pat Mora, Chicana poet
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

Broadside archive

Firefly Graveyard, by Daniel Vader

Tabasco the Bull, by Ben Jacobs

Poema without hands, by Maurice Kilwein Guevara

Mixed Messages, by M. Letsch

Abuelo y sus cuentos: Origin of the Bird-Beak Mole, by Brenda Cardenas

Clay, Poem by Marilyn Nelson

Accident, Poem by Todd Davis

Communion , Poem by Rachel Beth Miller.

Jezebel , Poem by Kelly Hartzler.

Brother , Poem by Jessica Smucker