From: Young Center <youngctr@etown.edu>
Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 8:26 AM
Subject: Please Announce Feb 13 & 20, 2022
To: info@gehmanmennonitechurch.org <info@gehmanmennonitechurch.org>
Please include this announcement in your church bulletin or announcement list on February 13 and 20:
Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies hosts the lecture, "I Have Come as My Name": The Vocation and Poems of Jane Rohrer, presented by Julia Spicher Kasdorf on Thurs, February 24, 7 p.m., both in-person at Bucher Meetinghouse at the Young Center, Elizabethtown College or via Zoom.
Julia Spicher Kasdorf will present an illustrated lecture and reading of the poetry of Jane (Turner) Rohrer, one of the first Mennonites to publish poetry in the mainstream literary press in the United States. Rohrer, born in 1928 in Broadway, Virginia, was best known as the wife of the Lancaster County painter Warren Rohrer during his lifetime. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Life After Death and Acquiring Land, and anticipates an exhibition at Woodmere Art Museum in April 2022, Hearing the Brush: the Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer .
Julia Spicher Kasdorf co-curated a Palmer Museum of Art exhibition and coedited with Christopher Reed and Joyce Henri Robinson the catalogue Field Language: The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer. She has also published four books of poetry: Sleeping Preacher; Eve's Striptease; Poetry in America; and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, created in collaboration with Steven Rubin. She teaches poetry writing at Penn State, where she is a Liberal Arts Professor of English.
For details and the link to the Zoom presentation, visit www.etown.edu/youngctr/events
Thank you.
The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Elizabethtown College
One Alpha Drive, Elizabethtown, PA 17022
Phone: 717-361-1470
Fax: 717-361-1443
