{"id":33100,"date":"2017-04-19T09:39:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=33100"},"modified":"2017-04-19T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:54:41","slug":"phoenix-celebrates-60th-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/phoenix-celebrates-60th-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Phoenix’ celebrates 60th edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Justine Nolt visited campus as a high school student, she picked up a copy of The Phoenix<\/em>, Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s literary and visual arts journal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember knowing I wanted to have a hand in its creation during my time here,\u201d said the junior Writing Studies<\/a> major.<\/p>\n

Little did she know, her editorial debut would be the journal\u2019s 60th edition. The editing process for this spring’s journal was both harder\u2014and easier\u2014than she anticipated.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually a poem or picture would ask to be included and we couldn\u2019t say, \u2018No,\u2019\u201d she said with a smile.<\/p>\n

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Editors Allie Sawyer, Justine Nolt and Lauren Eckenroad discuss selections. Not shown: Kate Weaver.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

View past issues of The Phoenix.<\/a><\/h3>\n

Since 1958, The<\/em> Phoenix <\/em>has showcased poetry, prose, photographs and illustrations from the EMU community once a year. Now, the journal\u2019s biannual release is accompanied by a new class that offers a credit hour for 40 hours of Phoenix <\/em>work.<\/p>\n

The editorial team also includes sophomore Allie Sawyer, an English education<\/a> major and Writing Studies minor; junior Kate Weaver, an English and English education double major with minors in Spanish and Honors; and senior Lauren Eckenroad, a digital media<\/a> major.<\/p>\n

The release party for this semester\u2019s issue is Friday, April 21, at 8 p.m. in Common Grounds.<\/p>\n

Submissions invited from all on campus<\/h3>\n

In February, <\/strong>Nolt and Sawyer send an appealing email to the entire campus: \u201cLet the writer or photographer in you shine through, even if you\u2019re up to your eyeballs in nursing clinicals, chemistry labs, dismantling capitalism, accounting spreadsheets, case studies, or restorative justice \u2026 It\u2019s gonna be #lit.\u201d<\/p>\n

With guidance from faculty advisor Kevin Seidel<\/a>, the team selected then submissions through discussion and debate \u2013 after delving into a lengthy reading list.<\/p>\n

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“Home, Parts I and 2,” by Nicole Litwiller, featured artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe hardest part was trying to limit the number of Middle East poems, and then putting a bunch of them in anyway because they were great,\u201d says Nolt.<\/p>\n

Weaver and Nolt hope their readership forges an emotional connection to the selected pieces and the students who produced them.<\/p>\n

Says Nolt, \u201cI would love for someone to go up to Liesl Graber or Macson McGuigan or Azariah Cox and say, \u2018Hey, I saw your work in the Phoenix! I\u2019d love to hear the story behind it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve loved reading the different poetry that my peers have created,\u201d says Sawyer. \u201cIt gives me insight into who they are and what they appreciate in a way that a normal conversation can\u2019t always do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Featured Contributors<\/h3>\n
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“Ouro” by Ariel Barbosa is among the featured photographs in The Phoenix.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Writers:<\/strong> Kaitlin Abrahams, Diego Barahona, Savannah Olshove, Caleb Schrock-Hurst, Amanda Williams, Liesl Graber, Luke Mullet, Megan Bishop, Justine Nolt, Naomi Scoville, Elizabeth Nisly, Megan Good.<\/p>\n

Photographers:<\/strong> Scott Eyre, Robert Weaver, Macson McGuigan, Ariel Barbosa, Dylan Buchanan, Carissa Luginbill, Andrea Cable, Azariah Cox, Lauren Eckenroad, Julian Bussells, Esther Ghale.<\/p>\n

Artists:<\/strong> Nicole Litwiller, Robyn Cordle, Joaquin Sosa, Rachel Holderman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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