Works with Soul: Dave Harrity
Ruminate will be co-hosting a panel with our new friend Dave Harrity (poet and founder of Antler) at the Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing in a few weeks, so we thought this would be the perfect time to introduce him to you all. So, Ruminate readers, meet Dave.
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Works with Soul: Micah Bloom
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with visual artist Micah Bloom, winner of Ruminate’s first annual Visual Art Prize for his art series interventions, which is featured on the cover and inside of Issue 22: Up in the Air. His work was selected for first place by Ruminate’s Art Prize juror, Sandra Bowden.
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Works with Soul: Adrianne Smith
Ruminate’s 2011 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize winner. Originally from Las Cruces, New Mexico, she moved to Jackson, Mississippi, to study art and creative writing at Belhaven University. Adrianne graduated this spring, and now manages a Chinese restaurant to pay the bills. She was awarded honorable mention in the 2009 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize
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Works With Soul: Joshua MacIvor-Andersen
Josh MacIvor-Andersen is author of ‘Flexing, Texting, Flying’, winner of the 2011 Ruminate Nonfiction Prize featured in Issue 20: Feasting. He’s joined us to chat about hubris, obsession, and the messy business of life.
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Last year I had the opportunity to interview Christina Saj, a painter fascinated with geometric abstraction, a preference for modernism, and an acute awareness of historical context. Early in her career, she mastered the technique of Byzantine icon painting, and now uses those formal and structural elements as a springboard for paintings in which symbols are recognized and reinvented, reflecting the character of the time in which they have been created.
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FEATURING Walter Wangerin, Jr., Jeanne Murray Walker, Nahal Suzanne Jamir, Aynslee Moon + 2012 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize judged by Walter Wangerin, Jr., winner Nahal Suzanne Jamir