Reprinted with slight edits from the student-produced Weather Vane, Oct. 2, 2014. Written by first-year student Liesl Graber. Lyrical words filled Lehman Auditorium last Wednesday evening, capturing the attention of ... read more about Acclaimed poet inspires dialogue about race, belonging, in the U.S. today
Writers Read
Award-winning poet opens 2014-15 Writers Read series with performance of the new black poems and others
Evie Shockley, an award-winning poet who embraces both free-verse and traditional styles of writing, will open up the 2014-15 Writers Read series on Wednesday, September 24, at 8 p.m. in Eastern Mennonite ... read more about Award-winning poet opens 2014-15 Writers Read series with performance of the new black poems and others
Writers Read features compelling novelist who taps her Pakistani and Dutch background
Sorayya Khan – a Pakistani-Dutch-American writer who combines cross-cultural sensibilities with lyrical, haunting prose on war and its impact on humanity – is the last Writers Read guest of the ... read more about Writers Read features compelling novelist who taps her Pakistani and Dutch background
Award-winning, blueberry-growing essayist, poet, feaured at Writers Read event on Monday, Feb. 10
Jim Minick, author of the award-winning The Blueberry Years, A Memoir of Farm and Family, will be at EMU on Monday, Feb. 10, for two events, culminating in the first ... read more about Award-winning, blueberry-growing essayist, poet, feaured at Writers Read event on Monday, Feb. 10
EMU alum next featured Writers Read author
Jessica Penner, a 2001 Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) alumna, will be the next featured “Writers Read Author,” on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 6:30 p.m., in EMU’s Common Grounds Coffeehouse in ... read more about EMU alum next featured Writers Read author
Frank X Walker to open 2013-14 Writers Read series
Frank X Walker, a multidisciplinary artist and Al Smith Fellowship recipient, will open the 2013-14 “Writers Read Author series,” on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 8:30 p.m., in Eastern Mennonite University’s ... read more about Frank X Walker to open 2013-14 Writers Read series
Landises Books Chronicle Life, Family and EMU Careers
Peggy Heatwole Landis and Jay B. Landis have a long history with Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), one that began more than half a century ago. The two met, fell in ... read more about Landises Books Chronicle Life, Family and EMU Careers
Writers Read Author Discusses Leaving the Amish
Saloma Miller Furlong always liked the way Burlington, Vt., looked in her school history books. So, when she decided to leave her Ohio Amish community at the age of 20, ... read more about Writers Read Author Discusses Leaving the Amish
Upcoming Writers Read Author Left Amish for Freedom and Education
What would cause you to leave your faith? Saloma Miller Furlong, an author who grew up in and left an Amish community in Ohio, will be the last “Writers Read Dinner ... read more about Upcoming Writers Read Author Left Amish for Freedom and Education
Writers Read Jan. 31: Katie Fallon Writes Gently on Her Environmental Passions
Katie Fallon, an outdoor enthusiast and bird lover who authored Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, 2011), kicks off the spring “Writers Read Dinner and ... read more about Writers Read Jan. 31: Katie Fallon Writes Gently on Her Environmental Passions