Author: Mary Ann Zehr
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Mary Ann Zehr, Contributor
Book Review: Place and Displacement
On one visit to the park, I came across stones from a chimney and the foundation of a dwelling. I didn’t give these ruins a second thought.
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Book Review: Black Cohosh
School kids relentlessly bully Eagle, the protagonist in a debut graphic memoir, Black Cohosh, created by a local comic artist, Eagle Valiant Brosi.
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Poetry Possibilities
“I want to take poetry outside the purview of academia,” says local poet Gbenga Adesina at the start of a spring workshop he is giving at Central Library, part of the programming for the Big Read 2025.
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Book Event Review: Big Read 2025
The NEA’s Big Read goals are “to inspire meaningful conversations, celebrate local creativity, elevate a wide variety of voices and perspectives, and build stronger connections in each community.”
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Book Review: Motherhood
She has one child: a two-year old. She loves that child. But this young mother is not unflappable. Increasingly, she is angry.
Harrisonburg Anabaptists Help to Create a New Study Bible
By Mary Ann Zehr, contributor Starting just before Christmas, Harrisonburg-based publisher MennoMedia began shipping thousands of copies of a new study Bible called the Anabaptist Community Bible. “We printed 10,000 in our first print run, and we’ve just gone back to do another printing,” said Amy Gingerich, the publisher and executive director for MennoMedia, affiliated …
Book review: Birth of a Child
By Mary Ann Zehr Reading in the Burg is a monthly column in 2025 by a local teacher and reader about connecting with books and taking in Harrisonburg’s literary scene. ~Kauffman, Rebecca. I’ll Come to You. Counterpoint, 2024~ The characters who first make an appearance in local author Rebecca Kauffman’s latest novel, I’ll Come to …
Guns Into Plowshares Returns to D.C.
“Sadly this art is relevant today,” wrote Jordyn Thompson, now a junior preparing to be a secondary history teacher. She wrote that the sculpture draws attention to “the use of guns and gun violence, which is a pandemic in today’s society.”
