Future Projects from Bronze Man Books
The student staff at Bronze Man Books is keeping an eye on the future of the company they helped start. They are considering future publication lines including chap books and photo histories of Millikin University.
Learn how to submit your publication ideas for future projects here.
MU Haiku Anthology Project
Working title: Millikin University Haiku Anthology |
Book type: poetry anthology |
Expected publication date: October 11, 2008 |
Editorial Team: Dr. Randy Brooks (217-424-6264), Emily Evans (alumni editor), Rick Bearce (student editor), and Melanie McLay (student editor) |
Audience: International haiku community, American haiku community, the Millikin haiku community (including traditional and PACE students, faculty and staff), Millikin University alumni and friends, Decatur and central Illinois literary arts community, English teachers of haiku at secondary and college student levels, the anthology participants and friends, poetry collections in public and school libraries. |
Description: Bronze Man Books is pleased to publish an anthology that celebrates and showcases work of the Millikin University haiku community. Dr. Brooks has taught haiku courses, the Global Haiku Tradition and Haiku Writing Roundtable, at Millikin since 1999. The Millikin University Haiku Anthology will be a collection of the best of the best haiku by current and former students, staff and faculty at Millikin University. The anthology will include award-winning haiku and haiku by the Millikin community previously published in literary journals. It will also feature new haiku from the Millikin haiku community through an open submissions process.
The Millikin University Haiku Anthology will also provide a much-needed collection of contemporary English-language haiku for use in secondary and college level classrooms. While students of all ages enjoy contemporary haiku, Bronze Man Books believes that the haiku published in this anthology will resonate with high school and college-age students attempting to learn more about the English-language haiku.
Publicity Quote: The Millikin University haiku studies program was recently recognized by the editor of The Haiku Anthology, Cor van den Heuvel. In the biographical overview of featured authors in a new anthology, Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2007, editor Cor van den Heuvel writes: “Randy Brooks is Chair of the English Department at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, where he also oversees what is undoubtedly the best English-language haiku program of any school in the country.” |
Publicity Quote: The Millikin University haiku studies program was recently recognized by the editor of The Haiku Anthology, Cor van den Heuvel. In the biographical overview of featured authors in a new anthology, Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2007, editor Cor van den Heuvel writes: “Randy Brooks is Chair of the English Department at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, where he also oversees what is undoubtedly the best English-language haiku program of any school in the country.” |
Ray George Book
Working Title: Ray George
Book Type: artwork and biography, featuring interviews with friends and fellow artists
Expected Publication Date: Summer 2008
Editorial Team: Justin Triezenberg
and Kelle Sills
Audience: Ray George contemporaries
and enthusiasts and the artistic community.
Description: A book that celebrates the life and work of Ray George, an American printmaker that passed away in 2005. The book is set to contain interviews with family, friends, and artists familiar with George's work. It will also have George's letters and other important documents having to do with his life. However, the book will primarily feature the stunning artwork this man created over his lifetime, all of which amounted to an impressive body of work.
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Illinois Art Masters
Working Title: Illinois Art Masters
Book Type: flip-book/postcards/etc.
Expected Publication Date: Summer 2008
Audience: artistic community in
the Midwest including established artists and students
Description: This text will be a compendium of the master artists in and around the city of Decatur, stretching all over Illinois and the Midwest. Although the exact format is still undecided, every artist's masterpieces will be displayed beautifully in order to be showcased at viewings and artistic events throughout the region. |
Vespers Project
Working title: Vespers |
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Book type: Photo history |
Expected publication date: Winter 2008 |
Audience: Millikin University Students & Family, Millikin University Alumni, Millikin University Boosters, Supporters, and Advisors, Vespers Attendees |
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Description: Bronze Man Books is looking towards publishing a coffee-table type book that contains an intimate history of VESPERS, through the eyes of the many students/faculty and supporters of the program over its long history.
A great focus of the publication would be to collect short narratives of those involved; publishing their personal experiences with VESPERS, or alternatively as has been discussed, the impact that VESPERS has had or the direction of which VESPERS has taken alumni in their professional career(s).
We would like to include photographs of both rehearsals as well as of actual performances of the program as well.
The purpose of the VESPERS publication would be to create a long-lasting, tangible way for former students and faculty members to remember and cherish the VESPERS tradition of Millikin University. This program has a long and trusted history of making an undeniable impact on those involved and we want to, for the first time in University history, creatively document it.
Submit your Vespers photos, stories, and experiences to editor mbeanblossom@millikin.edu
Oops, Did I Say That?
Working Title: Oops, Did I Say That?
Book Type: flipbook
Expected Publication Date: Spring 2009
Audience: The family and friends of cancer patients, medical staff and personnel, and anyone affiliated with St. Jude's Children's Hospital or any other cancer support groups.
Description: Written for an English project, Millikin University student and cancer survivor Sarah Johnson wrote a manuscript in order to educate people on how to speak to young cancer patients. Told through the voice of a child, Sarah provides a section of hurtful comments and one containing uplifting ones, as well as reasons for why patients react one way or the other. This book will prove extremely beneficial for anyone unexpectedly faced with comforting and supporting those afflicted with cancer.
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