The first edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York won a bronze medal in the anthology division of the 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Stone Canoe is edited by Robert Colley '66, and contributors to the award-winning issue include sculptor John von Bergen '63 and Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive at Hamilton.
Published by Syracuse University, the 268-page journal is a community-oriented arts annual that draws on the creative efforts of writers and artists with a diverse range of upstate connections. Contributors include emerging figures as well as Pulitzer Prize winners.
"Our editorial strategy has been to mix all these together in an attempt to dramatize the collective power of their artistic contribution and to discover what new meanings their work takes on in juxtaposition," writes Colley, associate dean at SU's University College. "Each voice or hand adds to the texture of our collective experience."
Rowe contributed "Long as the Music Plays," an essay on race and jazz based on the interviews with musicians that he and "Doctuh" Michael Woods, associate professor of music, did for the Jazz Archive. Von Bergen contributed an image of his bronze 2004 sculpture Uwatenage.
Stone Canoe has been showcased at the Book Expo America, the Eighth Annual Literary Magazine and Small Press Fair, and at a reading at the New York Public Library. It will be available at the Hamilton College Store this month. More information about the journal is available at http://www.stonecanoejournal.org/.
Published by Syracuse University, the 268-page journal is a community-oriented arts annual that draws on the creative efforts of writers and artists with a diverse range of upstate connections. Contributors include emerging figures as well as Pulitzer Prize winners.
"Our editorial strategy has been to mix all these together in an attempt to dramatize the collective power of their artistic contribution and to discover what new meanings their work takes on in juxtaposition," writes Colley, associate dean at SU's University College. "Each voice or hand adds to the texture of our collective experience."
Rowe contributed "Long as the Music Plays," an essay on race and jazz based on the interviews with musicians that he and "Doctuh" Michael Woods, associate professor of music, did for the Jazz Archive. Von Bergen contributed an image of his bronze 2004 sculpture Uwatenage.
Stone Canoe has been showcased at the Book Expo America, the Eighth Annual Literary Magazine and Small Press Fair, and at a reading at the New York Public Library. It will be available at the Hamilton College Store this month. More information about the journal is available at http://www.stonecanoejournal.org/.
