Over the course of MLK weekend, Allison Joseph, an award winning-poet, professor and editor, ran a poetry workshop for GC students. In this workshop, Joseph covered everything from the purpose of poetry and rhythm rhyme to how repetition leads to buried truths.  Joseph was raised in Toronto and the Bronx. Her parents are of Caribbean origin, and she was born in London, England. Allison earned a B.A. from Kenyon College and an MFA from Indiana University. Next fall, Joseph will move into her 30th year of teaching English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Joseph has released eight full-length poetry collections,...

By Grace Stevens • January 18, 2024 • Arts

Four Goshen College seniors are now published authors following the release of their Pinchpenny Press books this past week. Pinchpenny Press is an on-campus publishing opportunity headed by an editorial committee of Goshen College students and faculty. Laura Miller, a writing and Spanish major, has been involved with Pinchpenny Press since her junior year, when she took on the student leadership position of Horswell Fellow. “The Horswell Fellow does organization and leadership on both Pinchpenny and Broadside [Publishing],” she said. “So my first exposure to Pinchpenny was leading the board last year.” Now, Laura Miller has released her first book...

By Augusta Nafziger • April 15, 2021 • Arts

As a kid, Jessica Baldanzi, associate professor of English at Goshen College, loved comics. She would read Archie, Superman, Richie Rich and more.   Over the years, her interest in comics has expanded past her brother’s superhero comics to the analysis of the female body as it is represented in comics and graphic novels.   Baldanzi’s developing manuscript, Representing Women in Graphic Fiction: Bodies and Boundaries, is the result of that interest and a book proposal she composed during her spring 2020 sabbatical that has since been accepted by Routledge.   Baldanzi’s work around feminism and graphic novels is a culmination of her...

By Emmalene Rupp • February 19, 2021 • Features

Goshen College’s printing press will soon be on the move. By early December, the Vandercook SP15 press will be taken out of its current home at The Local, an art gallery and artists’ collective on Main Street in Goshen, and will be moved to a studio between Fables Books and the hardware store. This move was prompted by the sale of the building that housed The Local. “We’ll be housing the press in a studio located downtown, between the bookstore and the hardware store,” Ida Short said. Short is a 2015 GC graduate with a degree in Studio Art and...

By Kristin Jantzen • November 19, 2020 • News

First-year students had the opportunity to listen and ask questions to Kris Holloway about her experience writing “Monique and the Mango Rains” in an Identity, Culture and Community plenary session on Monday, Nov. 2. Holloway, an Ohio native, is the author of “Monique and the Mango Rains,” a required text for ICC classes since 2017 that highlights the story of Monique Dembele, a midwife and healthcare worker from Mali, West Africa. Holloway tells the story of Monique after revisiting the village of Nampossela following her time as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1989. Holloway started by challenging listeners to think...

By Nick Yutzy • November 5, 2020 • News

During the uncertain time of quarantine, Marshall King was sure of one thing: he was hungry. In fact, King was hungry enough to put together a cookbook in a span of a few months. I’m Hungry, Let’s Eat, the digital cookbook, went on sale Aug. 17. Alongside several friends, King gathered recipes highlighting dishes from restaurants around Goshen. Proceeds from the book are going back to Elkhart County restaurants. King, adjunct professor of communications at Goshen College, and director of communications and marketing for the Community Foundation of Elkhart County, is a lifelong food lover who felt a need to...

By Gabriella Klopfenstein • September 3, 2020 • Features

A book that sprung from boredom in the jungles of Peru on Study-Service Term is now an ongoing series published on Amazon. Ryan Haggerty, a senior, is passionate about science and running. This is evident through his physics major, math minor and dedication to the college’s track team. But he also makes time for writing, taking his mom’s computer as a kid to write short stories.  “I had a very active imagination as a kid,” he said. “And I still do.”  As Haggerty grew up and got involved, writing short stories became a thing of the past until he traveled...

By Amber Heydon • January 31, 2020 • Features

The managing editor for the biggest Tottenham Hotspurs sports blog in the U.S. sits at the front desk of the Goshen College Music Center.  Tottenham Hotspurs FC are a soccer club from Tottenham (pronounced “totnum”), in North London. The team is currently ranked sixth in England’s most competitive league, the English Premier League, and they have fans all over the world.  One of those fans is the office coordinator at the Music Center, Dustin George-Miller, who is also the managing editor for the Hotspurs blog.  At the college, George-Miller coordinates space-use, sends emails to students and helps the Music Center...

By Gabe Miller • October 9, 2019 • Features

Ann Hostetler finds her best voice on the page, writing poetry that “makes space for imagination” while inspiring her students at Goshen College to share words of their own. “There were lots of pens and paper around the house,” Hostetler, professor of English, said of her childhood. “I just loved to read from a very young age, and I loved to write…the idea that words can change the world was exciting to me.” In her new book of poetry, “Safehold,” Hostetler shares a collection of poems, which she began writing in 2001 at the time of 9/11 and finished with...

By Mackenzie Miller • October 2, 2019 • Features

Holding a book often sparks feelings of whimsy and inspires nostalgia. Not only does a book’s contents hold stories, but its binding, cover and scent also can stir up specific emotions. Artist Teresa Pankratz captures all of this and breathes it into her work through artistic and perhaps unconventional means. Pankratz is the 2019 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist. Her exhibit opened at Goshen College on Feb. 17. She presented a public lecture on Sunday, March 10 as well as a public reading on Tuesday, March 12. Pankratz is a book and paper artist who lives in Chicago. Her artistic...

By Brianna Herndon • March 21, 2019 • Features

Goshen College students can look forward to hearing spoken word poet Carlos Andrés Gomez this Friday at 8 p.m. in Newcomer 19. This event is the first put on by Campus Activities Council in March.   A Colombian speaker, actor and writer from New York City, Gomez has authored several books, such as “Hijito,” the winner of the 2018 Broken River Prize, and his memoir “Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood,” published by Penguin Random House.   “Man Up,” inspired by Gomez’s one-man play, is a coming-of-age memoir and seeks to reverse the ominous trends Gomez has witnessed in masculinity through...

By Kristin Troyer • March 7, 2019 • News

If you are feeling creative and want to showcase your work to the entire Goshen College community, “Red Cents” is offering the opportunity. Submissions are open through March 8.   Going into its 14th year of publication, “Red Cents” is the campus literary arts journal that “showcases student writing, visual art and graphic design,” according to its webpage.   The journal was proposed by Rosanna Nafziger Henderson ’06 in 2004 and first published in 2005 through Pinchpenny Press, a publishing imprint of Goshen College.   Each year, Ann Hostetler, professor of English, guides an editorial board in the selection and...

By Cristina Jantz • February 21, 2019 • Features

At a release party Friday, Feb. 15, two Goshen College students– Elsa Lantz and Christi Sessa — will release their Pinchpenny Press books. Pinchpenny Press is a publishing opportunity on campus that publishes chapbooks written by GC students, faculty and staff. For both students, the chapbook serves as their senior writing practicum. Elsa Lantz, a senior double major in writing and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), has collected short stories and prose poetry that she has written while at Goshen College. This book has two sections: Fragments of Reality and Figments of the Imagination. “I really like...

By Emily Cummings • February 16, 2019 • Arts

Although it is only their third year at Goshen College, C.C. Lilford, a double-major in creative writing and film production, is in the midst of writing an original sci-fi fantasy series. The series is titled “Temples to Alien Gods,” and it follows a crew of individuals in space on a quest to find the home planet of ancient aliens that are believed to have created all sentient life in the universe.   When finished, this piece will serve as Lilford’s senior project, one that they hope will be formally published in one form or another.   Currently, “Temples to Alien...

By Eric Miller • January 26, 2019 • Features

Katie Hurst, who served as editor in chief of The Record last fall, received a second-place award from the Hoosier State Press Association for an editorial that she wrote in which she called for Goshen College students to commit to "showing up for each other." On the occasion of Sexual Violence Awareness Week and the roll-out of a Goshen Resident Identification Card, she wrote about the connection: "So what does it mean when we 'stand' with an individual, a group of people, a movement? Are we literally placing our bodies on the front line next to each other and standing...

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