HA&L magazine issue Thirteen.2

HA&L magazine issue thirteen.2 cover

 

HA&L 12th Anniversary • Mennonite Issue


NO LONGER STILL IN THE LAND

 

Portfolio • by Karen Thiessen.
A portfolio of work by Karen Thiessen • Textile image detail: The Red Gate

Video: The DaCapo Chamber Choir • Following the Moonroad Composed by Christine Donkin • Choir under the direction of Leonard Enns • Video by David Penner
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
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: Shadow Series, Transformation #4 by Karen Thiessen
Pantries and Hauntings • by Jan Guenther Braun • Artwork detail: Shadow Series, Transformation #4 by Karen Thiessen

That Thrift Life by Joyce Kehler Hildebrand
That Thrift Life • by Joyce Kehler Hildebrand

Comic: Shelterbelts • an excerpt from the story Better Times • by Jonathan Dyck
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: Woodcut from the Canadian hardcover edition of the book Women Talking by Miriam Toews
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
45 Cents a Pint from Little Red Purse: A Family Memoir by Di Brandt • Artwork detail: Red Series, Confidence by Karen Thiessen

Art Review: Danny Custodio's Tapetes Floridos — Floral Carpets in Steel Town by Bart Gazzola
Review: Danny Custodio's Floral Carpets in Steel Town • by Bart Gazzola

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  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


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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

StarALSO 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


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“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


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