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HA&L 12th Anniversary • Mennonite Issue NO LONGER STILL IN THE LAND   A portfolio of work by Karen Thiessen • Textile image detail: The Red Gate The DaCapo Chamber Choir • Following the Moonroad Composed by Christine Donkin • Choir under the direction of Leonard Enns • Video by David Penner When Bravery is Fiction: Despair, Hope & Expectation in the Writing of Transsexuality • by Casey Plett • Image detail: photo by Casey Plett Pantries and Hauntings • by Jan Guenther Braun • Artwork detail: Shadow Series, Transformation #4 by Karen Thiessen That Thrift Life • by Joyce Kehler Hildebrand Comic: Shelterbelts • an excerpt from “Better Times” • by Jonathan Dyck Secular Mennonites and the Violence of Pacifism – Miriam Toews at McMaster • by Maxwell Kennel * Image detail: STAY / FIGHT / LEAVE, by Willow Dawson • inner cover illustration for the book WOMEN TALKING by Miriam Toews 45 Cents a Pint from Little Red Purse: A Family Memoir by Di Brandt • Artwork detail: Red Series, Confidence by Karen Thiessen Review: Danny Custodio's Floral Carpets in Steel Town • by Bart Gazzola HA&L  magazine Membership. This Boat / cannot float / without you.   INTRODUCTION: No Longer Still in the Land: Canadian Mennonites and Affiliates by GUEST EDITOR Grace Kehler SECTION 1 “Beyond Linear Time and Binaries: Thinking with the Past in the Present, Thinking with Others” A Portfolio of Work by Karen Thiessen Video: The DaCapo Chamber Choir Following the Moonroad Composed by Christine Donkin Choir under the direction of Leonard Enns Video by David Penner Video: A conversation about Following the Moonroad with cellist Miriam Stewart-Kroeker, poet Connie T. Braun, and Guest Editor Grace Kehler Poetry: Mangata, and The Moon is a Stone that Shines by Connie T. Braun Comic: Shelterbelts an excerpt from the story “Better Times” by Jonathan Dyck That Thrift Life by Joyce Kehler Hildebrand 45 Cents a Pint from Little Red Purse: A Family Memoir by Di Brandt SECTION 2 “Confessions and Challenges: Mennonite and Not” “When Bravery Is Fiction: Despair, Hope & Expectation in the Writing of Transsexuality” by Casey Plett Book review: Zero Chronology – Notes on the Use of Time in Casey Plett’s Little Fish by Shane Neilson Portrait of an epidemiologist as a young man: reflections on the poetic, peripatetic life/lives of David Waltner-Toews by Hildi Froese Tiessen Poetry: Indifference, Cemetery Eclipse, and King Street by Peter Johann Lectures about Mennonite Literature that I Will Never Give by Tanis MacDonald Pantries and Hauntings by Jan Guenther Braun Book Review: Miriam Toews's Women Talking by Paul Tiessen Secular Mennonites and the Violence of Pacifism • Miriam Toews at McMaster by Maxwell Kennel ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Three Poems: We are dark gardeners, weeding by moonlight, Water cresting, and as environmentally sensitive, man-made construction to preserve soil by Paulette Dubé Video: On Geoff Martin's article Slave Days in the Queen's Bush A Conversation between Daniel Coleman & Geoff Martin Art Review: Danny Custodio's Tapetes Floridos — Floral Carpets in Steel Town by Bart Gazzola Video: Everybody In (a sonnet to Isolation courtesy of Covid-19) by Leo Dragtoe SONGS: "Saturday" & "Aurora" based on poetry by Paul Lisson by Dusty Micale Video: music based on a poem by Roxanna Bennett - ArtPop performs A minor chord composed by Dusty Micale ALSO SEE HA&L RAVE  for the latest in our Cross-Canada Book Review Project: Tamar Rubin reviews Matthew Walsh, Jim Nason, and George Elliott Clarke • PLUS  a review by Bart Gazzola on Micheal Snow at the AGH • AND a Memoir from Vanessa Green: Having A Child Raised The Ghost Of My Mother AWARDS: SHORT WORKS PRIZE for Writing! BECOME A MEMBER!  RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP! Help HA&L to continue publishing! “Most people have moments in their life, whether they know it at the time or only in retrospect, when they know themselves to be brave. [That was] When [they] felt the pull of something comfortable and easy, and [they] chose an option that carried the possibility of danger and fright because [they] knew it was the correct choice.” ― Casey Plett Guest Editor: Grace Kehler Paul Lisson: Editor Fiona Kinsella: Editor / Designer Associate Editor: Shane Neilson Founding Art Director: Peter Stevens (1963-2015) Contributing Editor: David Forsee (1944-2017) Hamilton Arts & Letters 12TH ANNIVERSARY issue thirteen.2   ISSN 1916-8454     HAL on Twitter                                                                                                                 HA&L magazine acknowledges the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council an Ontario Government Agency, the Centre for Community Engaged Narrative Arts, and the City of Hamilton. Sincere thanks to all of HA&L's members and sponsors – we wouldn't be here without you!