Snowflake, Snowflake: A Snake Draft of Mennonite Poets

This week, the MennoBrarians draft poets! Specifically, Mennonite poets, or poets we make the case are close enough to Mennonite to count as Mennonite poets. We chat about the history of Mennonite poetry, share the bios and snippets from our favorite poems, and chat about our own poetry phases - including Abby doing a special reading of a poem she wrote as a tween, Snowflake, Snowflake.

Draft picks:
1. Patrick Friesen, "The Moon in the Streets" (Tillie)
2. Kate Baer, "Life a Wife" (Abby)
3. Julia Kasdorf, "The Mennonites" (Erin)
4. Carrie Newcomer, "I Believe" (Erin)
5. Jean Jantzen, "Wild Grapes" (Abby)
6. Jeff Gundy, "The Cookie Poem" and "How to Write the New Mennonite Poem" (Tillie)
7. Yorifumi Yaguchi, "Gravestones" (Tillie)
8. David Wright, "A New Mennonite Replies to Julia Kasdorf" (Abby)
9. Ann Hostetler, "Iconoclast", and also editor of A Capella, an anthology of Mennonite poetry

Honorable mentions (we cut this portion of the podcast for time, but want to still give these poets a shout out!)
- Jesse Nathan (Erin)
- Daniel Shank-Cruz (Tillie)
- Dennis Hoffman (Tillie)

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