English department

"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:

		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

English department

Broadside archive