Founded in 1968, Dialogue is Calvin University's student-run creative journal, showcasing pieces submitted, edited, and curated by undergraduate students.
Dialogue publishes student work in five categories: prose, poetry, photography, visual art, and music.
A student jury carefully evaluates all submissions and selects the finest pieces for publication, celebrating the creative and artistic expression of Calvin students across disciplines.
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Dialogue: April 1976
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 8, Issue: 6Comment
2 Odd Thing AMy Harper; 2 About the Weather Don Hettinga; 3 Quiet Mysteries Deb Ellens
Features
6 Reflections on Grand Rapids M. Howard Rienstra; 12 Sigsbee Street George Harper; 22The Unattached Poor of Downtown Grand Rapids Ronald VanderKooi
Afterwards
31 Believe? Ronald Wells
Art
9 Shelley Smith; 21 Janet Hagedorn; 30 Mark Borst
Poems
9, 16 Kim Gilmore; 11 R. Stravers; 28 David Westendorp
Photographs
8, 18, 20 Mike Brouwe; 10, 17, 36 Bill Melenberg; 17, 26, 27, 30 Don Hettinga; 25 William F. Reus III -
Dialogue: March 1976
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 8, Issue: 5Comment
2 Don Hettinga
Features
6 The "Christian" Exploiter Clarence Vos; 10 Thanks to the following who contributed time and effort: James Bosscher, Roger Connor, Tim Diephouse, Pete Dykhuis, Denis Hayes, Miriam Van Goor, Mark Wiersma, Don Wilson
Afterwards
29 Review of Gary Synder's Turtle Island David Westendorp
Art
9 Amelia Harper; 10 Peter Dykhuis; 21 Elmer Yazzie; 29 Mary Lambers
Photographs
3, 4, 16 Robert Eskes; 14 Howard Van Til; 28 William F. Reus III
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Dialogue: February 1976
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 8, Issue: 4Comment
2 A Quadrennial Orgy Mark Van Putten; 3 Tribal Animosities in Angola Joel Kuipers
Features
8 The Impossible Possibility photographs by William F. Reus 111; 17 Pottery photographs by Don Hettinga & Mark Va.n Putten; 21 A Brief Dialogue Lambert Van Poolen 26 Letters On Hesse Carl Byker & Don Hettinga
Afterwards
34 Hearts and Minds Patricia Steenland
Art
6 Peter Dykhu is; 15 Chris Stoffel; 24 John Powell; 25 Dan Nelson; 31 Janet Hagedorn; 32 Alba DeBee
Poetry
16 Kim Gilmore; 31 M. Edmund
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Dialogue: December 1975
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 8, Issue: 3Comment
2 To Recreate Experience Mark Van Putten; 6 A Christmas Comment Don Hettinga, Mark Van Putten
Equal Space
4 Depraved Dialogue? Jane Ridder; 4 Cold Water & Little Foxes Kathy Cale; 4 Through disgust Robert Boomsma
Features
8 Dialects, Latin, and Language Change: A Reply to Mr. Wiersma Steve VanDer Weele; 17 On Christianity, Art, and Being Explicit Nicholas Wolterstorff; 20 Paul Schrader Talks interview by Mary Hietbrink
Afterwards
28 Poetry: A Creation of Selfhood Marilyn Vander Burgh
Art
2 Alba DeBee; 10 Cal Niemeyer; 11 Shelley D. Smith; 16 Jan Hagedorn; 19 William F. Reus III; 26 Amy Rumph
Poetry
11 R. Stravers; 16 j.e.artis; 27 David Westendorp
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Dialogue: November 1975
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 8, Issue: 2Comment
2 Don Hettinga
Equal Space
3 The Importance of Water in The Little Foxes
Features
30 Interview with Dr. Anthony Diekma; 6 Furiously Sleeping Ideas Joel Kuipers; 26 Heiman Dullaert: Dutch Metaphysical Poet translated by Henrietta Ten Harmsel; 14 Change-or Decay Richard Tiemersma; 17 Recent Prints and Drawings Jake VanWyk; 21 Babel Revisited Stanley Wiersma
Fiction
12 Debby Neil LEttinga -
Dialogue: October 1975
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 8, Issue: 1Comment
2 From Ashes
Equal Space
3 Jonathan Rockey
Features
6 Detents, SALT, & Solzhenitsyn Robert De Vries; 12 Symposium: The American Dream; 20 Call Us Refugees Donald Hettinga
Fiction
10 A Snapshot of the Artist as a Young Man Al Aasman; 24 New Critics, New Questions, New Dreams Clarence Walhout
Afterwards
28 The Love Song of Allen Steward Konigsberg Irvin Kroeze -
Dialogue: April 1975
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 7, Issue: 5Comment 2
Articles
2 Well-fed Faith Without Works Neil Lettinga; 8 St. Patrick's Day: A "Protestant" Recollection Ronald Wells; 10 Academic Procession William Spoelhof; 10 Academic Procession William Spoelhof; 20 As I knew Them John Timmerman; 24 Intimidations of Mortality Malcolm McBryde
Fiction
16 A Fine Point David Schaafsma; 29 Reformed Politics in North Prairie Herbert Brinks
Poetry
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Dialogue: February 1975
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 7, Issue: 4Comment
2 Peter Dykstra
Correspondence
6 Paul Zwier, Jr.
Articles
7 Crying in the Wilderness: the Berrigan Brothers in the 1970's Bart Kreps; 12 San Francisco Beat Poets Mark VanPutten; 21 Omphaloskepsis in the Ed Department: A Reply Peter DeBoer
Reviews
23 Massa's in de cold, cold ground Scott Feringa; 24 Barefoot, pregnant, and behind the plow Sally Kuiper Bulthuis
Comics
28 Luna-Toon, excerpted from the Boink comic book
Poetry
10 High in the Heart of the City Thomas Konyndyk; 13 No Moon for the Misbegotten John Earle Artis; 16 Purpaleanie Sietze Buning; 26 Paris 1/75 R. Stravers -
Dialogue: January 1975
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 7, Issue: 3Articles
4 Back to the U.S.S. R.: You Don't Know How Lucky You Are Gil Besselsen; 7 The Christian College: Some Reflections on the Adjective Clarence Boersma; 9 The Content of Process Marion Snapper;
16 Omphaloskepsis in the Ed Department Peter Dykstra; 19 Calvin's Core Curriculum: The Rhetoric and the Reality Donald Oppewal; 21 Evolution and the Christian School Joel Kuipers
Fiction
26 Signals H. K. Zoeklicht; 28 The Brownsville Fire David Schaafsma
Cover
Lee Doezema
Art
8, 12, 14, 15, 16 David Bradford; 25 Roger Dik; 3 Faith Gysen; 29 Bruce Okkema
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32 traditional
Poetry
10-11, 22-23 Sietze Buning; 13 L. Van Poolen; 31 Mark D. Lipscomb -
Dialogue: November 1974
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 7, Issue: 2Comment
2 Tractatus Dialogico-Communicatus: a translation from the German James Leunk
Articles
7 Presidents, Parties, and the Balance of Power; David Hoekema; 9 Christianity in the Work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn Winifred Holkeboer
14 Symposium on Sculpture; 19 Interview by Lee Doezema Good Groceries Contest Winners -
Dialogue: October 1974
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 7, Issue: 1Comment
2 Strange Bedfellows Barbara Reinsma
Articles
4 Mass Communication: A Proposal for Christian Collegiate Study; 8 Tom Ozinga Thoughts in Anticipation of All Saint's Day Ronald A. Wells
Fiction
10 Up Against the Wall, Boink-a-Roink Maxwell Bredeboer; 12 Night Talk Herbert Vander Zwaal; 18 Fishing Douglas Brouwer; 21 What I Did on My Summer Vacation, For Lack of Anything Better James Leunk; 25 Arrow, Arrow: A short Short Story by the Modern Method Herbert Vander Zwaal
Reviews
28 All the President's Sin Peter Dykstra; 29 Hands Across the Water John Ottenhoff -
Dialogue: May 1974
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 6, Issue: 6Features
6 Satori ; 18 Joy and Desire, Fantasy and Belief ; 26 Come on Nin. Martha Lipscomb
Reviews
30 Catching Line Drives in the Dark David C. denBoer -
Dialogue: March 1974
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 6, Issue: 5Features
6 The Jesus Alternative Nancy Leesman; 16 The Core of the Matter Benjamin VanderKooi; 22 Satan: Within or Without Peter Slofstra
Fiction
27 The Agony and the Idiocy -
Dialogue: February 1974
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 6, Issue: 4Features
6 Calvin, Once Removed Joel Carpenter; 12 Selected Stanzas
Fiction
20 Hercules the Reprobate Randall VanderMay
Review
30 Using the facts, aking a fiction Peter Dykstra
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Dialogue: December 1973
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Volume: 6, Issue: 36 Symposium
15 Fiction
18 Reviews -
Dialogue: Noember 1973
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 6, Issue: 26 - JFK Ten Years On by Ronald Wells
12 - Bonhoeffer: A New Look at His Theology of the Church by David Timmer
20 - Kerouac in Retrospect: On the Road Again by David denBoer
24 - The Exstentialist by Peter Dykstra
29 - Dizziness, Drugs, and Other Highs Review by Richard Mouw -
Dialogue: October 1973
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Volume: 6, Issue: 16 - Slow Death in the Factory by Joel Kuipers
10 - Tolkien: The Light Recovered by Henry Meeter
16 - Church Responds to Charismatic Question by Leonard Sweetman 22 - Dr. Chicago by Douglas Brouwer
27 - The Begetting by Mark Lipscowbb
27 - Brashler scores by DC den Boer -
Dialogue: May 1973
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 5, Issue: 5Comment
2 Jack Harkema; 2 George Harris; 6 The Don Juan Evasiveness Gap by Luke Reinsma; 13 The Fine Arts and the Curriculum by Clarence Walhout; 21 Literature and Publishing: The Art Versus the Industry, by Mark VanHalsema; 24 Art and Beauty in the Christian Life by Nicholas Wolterstorff; 29 Calvin Rag by Kelly Sterk; 34 Marx's Women by Donna Kuiper
Poetry
22, 27 Donald Mulder; 12 Kathleen Speyers; 20 Robert Swets; 20 Randall VanderMey
Photography
4, 5 Randall Nyhof; 28 John Daverman
Illustrations
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Jack Harkema; 13, 36 Timothy Vanlaar; 25 Randall Nyhof
Pencil Drawing
16 Jake Vanwyk -
Dialogue: March 1973
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 5, Issue: 4Comment
4 Wiersma Does Achterberg, review by Robert Swets; 9 The Poetic Performance of Sylvia Plath by Marilyn Brouwer; 14 Borscht by Donald Ottenhoff; 19 Fathoming Kael, Rreview by John Ottenhoff; 25 What's New in Economics, by George Monsma; 27 What's New in Psychology, by William Sanderson
Poetry
6, 7 Donald Mulder; 18 Hubert Van Toi; 21 David Timmer; 28 Robert Swets; 30 Lambert VanPoolen -
Dialogue: January 1973
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 5, Issue: 3Comment
2 David Timmer; 4 The Sabbath, fiction by Herbert Brinks; 8 Video Medium: Paradox and Prospect, by Robert Ottenhoff; 21 What's New in History? by Edwin Vankley; 25 What's New in Political Science? by James DeBorst; 31 Abijah's Graveyard, by Melody Takken
Poetry
7 David Holtrop; 17 Robert Swets; 22 Joan Maida; 28 David denBoer -
Dialogue: November 1972
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 5, Issue: 2Comment
2 Ronald Wells; 3 Richard Tiemersma; 7 Community Goals and College Governance, by Nicholas Wolterstorff; 10 Satanism in America,, by Kristine adn Theodore Opperwall; 18 Sampler: Faculty Art Show; 22 Commands for Grown-ups, by Richard Mouw; 31 Postscript: Reflections on dialogue, by Marilyn Brouwer
Poetry
24, 29 Robert Swets; 29 John DeKoekoek; 29 Randall VanderMey
Photography
18, 21 Nick Kroeze; 19, 20 Malcolm McBride; 28, 30 John Daverman -
Dialogue: October 1972
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 5, Issue: 1Comment
4 McGovernomics vs Nixonomics, by George Monsma; 8 Streets of Zion, by Stanley Wiersma; 19 City Boy, fiction by Randall VanderMey
Poetry
7 Hubert Van Tol; 18 David denBoer; 22 Robert Sweets -
Dialogue: May 1972
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 4, Issue: 6Comment
2 David Timmer; 5 The Americanization of the CRC, by Lambet Okina; 8 Hard-Core Optimism, review by Jack Huissen; 10 Fine Arts Festiva Section 10 The Residents, play by Randall VanderMey; 15-18 Visual Arts Winners
Poetry
22, 24 David DenBoer; 23 Robert Sweets; 23 Randall VanderMey; 24 Hubert VanTol; 25 The Suit, fiction by Randall VanderMey; 28 Christian Political Action: NACPA Reconsidered, by Paul Henry; 31 The Friend, poem by Herbert Vander Zwall -
Dialogue: March 1972
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 4, Issue: 5Comment
2 David Timmer; 4 The Good and the Possible in South Africa, by Ronald Wells; 7 Artist and Community, by Donald Ottenhof; 11 A Tourist Does Golotha, epic poem by Robert Sweets; 17 Report 36: Room Within the Boundaries, by Leonard Sweetman; 22 Our Vanishing Canadian Minority, by Concerned Canadian Students; 25 Films and Filmmakers: Perfecting Artistic Fascism, by John Ottenhoff
Poetry
5, 26 Hubert VanTol; 6 Robert Swets; 8 Glen Fennema; 18 Thomas Konydyk; 21 Steven Dieleman; 21 John Knol; 21 Randall VanderMey; 24 David DenBoer; 29 Herbert VanderZwaal -
Dialogue: February 1972
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 4, Issue: 4Comment
2 David Timmer; 4 Education at the Open End, review by Thomas Jonker; 7 History and Biblical Authority, by David Holwerda; 13 Notes of a Pacifist Activist, essay-review by William VanWyk; 18 Faith and Doubt in "The Oxen" by Henrietta TenHarmsel; 19 The Status of Women in Scripture, by JoanMalda
Poetry
8 Miriam Timmerman; 11 Robert Swets; 20 Glen Fennema -
Dialogue: December 1971
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 4, Issue: 3Comment
2 Theodore Opperwall; 4 Rose-Tinted Revolution review by Carl Strikwerda; 6 Two Catches songs by John Worst; 7 A Study in Perseverance: The Feminine Mystaque? by Edward Vanderberg; 12 Guilded by David DenBoer and Robert Voogt; 13 The Revival We Are Supposed to be Having by David Timmer; 19 The Case for Christian Political Action: NACPA, by Gordon Spykman; 21 Firmness and Fairness
by Bernard Pekelder
Poetry
5 David DenBoer; 8 Glenn Fennema; 10 Amy Harper; 16 Donna Huisjen; 15 Hubert VanTol; 18 Steven Dieleman -
Dialogue: November 2011
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 4, Issue: 2Comment
2 Robert Stri kwerda; 4 And Here's to You, Danny Orlis fiction by Phillip Blosser; 7 Is a Historic Fall Necessary? by Herman Bouma; 9 The Secular Academic Community, by Gordon Van Harn; 13 Communal Life at Oalvin by Delwin Nykamp; 15 A J Muste: A Life of the "American Gandhi" Part 2, by Steven Dieleman; 21 Correspondence
Poetry
5 Donald Mulder; 10 Robert Swets; 12 Richard Prins; 14 Herbert VanderZwaal; 16 Glen Fennema; 17 Hubert VanTol; 14 Joan Maida; 20 David DenBoer; 22 John Bakker 22 -
Dialogue: October 1971
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 4, Issue: 1Comment
4 A Tooth for a Tooth, fiction by Miriam Timmerman; 7 The Core Curriculum and the Fragmentation of Education, by Richard Prins; 12 Nixon's "New Economic Policy," by George Monsma; 15 Power, Coercion, and Politics, by Richard Mouw; 18 A J Muste: A Life of the "American Gandhi"; 18 Part I, by Steven Dieleman
Poetry
4 Gordon Bordewyk; 6 Thomas Konyndyk; 6, 19 Miriam Timmerman; 9 Robertswets; 11 Herbert VanderZwaal; 13 Hubert Van Toi; 17 Randall VanderMey; 21 Glen Fennema -
Dialogue: April 1970
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 2, Issue: 3Index
1 - Nixon's Welfare Reform: Neither A Poison Nor A Miracle Drug George N. Monsma Jr.
3 - THe Calvin Bookstore Tom Prins
9 - L'Homme Moyen Sensual: The Humor of Charlie Chaplin Sandra Zoeterman
6 - Echoes of Nazism In American Politics Daniel DeVries
12 - Flight Marilyn Van Vuren
13 - Trampled In The Vintage David Vander Meulen
16 - China and Its Future Andy Van Baak
19 - Castro and Cuba Ira R. Slagter
23 - The Huk Insurgency Mike Brandsen
25 - Hitler on The Rostrum A Presidential Address to Congress Robert P. Schoone-Jonge, William Van Harken
29 - Academic Freedom In The Christian College Nicholas Wolterstorff -
DialogueJanuary 1970
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 2, Issue: 22 - Non-Christian Reformed Faculty at Calvin Richard J. Mour
4 - Why "Bottle-up" the Author?
9 - A Wise Man
10 - An Analysis of the Intellectual Consumption
14-15 - One Idiot in Idio Batch
27 - Poetry
28 - From the Office of the Student Body President
32 - Poetry -
Dialogue: November 1969
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 2, Issue: 12 - The Brass Pitoon William Burrsma
5 - Mateus Mark Miller
10 - Genetic Pollution adn the Future of Man Terri Entingh
20 - Death Sestina Tim Van Laar
21 - Over the Jabbok Stanley Wiersma, tr.
22 - Open the Gates of the Temple George Marson
24 - Poetry Joel Beversluis
26 - Why I Feel Uncomfortable with You Jeremiah Whittington
30 - Calvin Paranoia E. J. Daverman -
Dialogue: May 1969
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Volume: 1, Issue: 32 - Nuclear Strategy and the ABM James DeBorst, Vernon Ehlers
8 - The Negative Income Tax: Better Than Present Welfare Systems? Donald E. Pruis
10 - Welfare Reform and teh Poor Robert A. Bosscher
12 - In Loco Parentis vs. Student Rights Roger Helder
14 - The New Constitution adn Student Government David Hoekema
16 - Student Power in Miniature Dan Entingh
18 - Springtime Signtime
19 - Art as Transformed Subversion The Elusive Aesthetics of Pauline Kael James Hoekema
23 - Woodrow Wilson and the "Infection" of War Robert Bolt
24 - Definition Loeren Hoekzema
25 - The Proper Function of the Artist in the State Gerald R. Hoekstra
30 - Wordsworth Before THe Board of Trustees Luicie Commeret -
Dialogue: March 1969
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Volume: 1, Issue: 2Poetry
1 To Gregory Patovsky 1887-1968 Lee Fischer; 16 Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics Earl Ophof; 26 Made Unmade Henry de Graaf; 33 The Oatmeal Kid Jane Zylstra; 35 Recommendation Merry Sluis
Drama
29 Footsteps Dirk Brinkman
Art and Photography
4 Slab Pot No. 2 Steve de Jong; 5 Fairy Village Jeanne Buiter; 14 Pedestrians Downtown Gerry Hoekstra; 15 Black Woman Kathy Veenstra; 15 Wayne Loren Hoekzema; 17 Initial Design Phil Peterson; 24, 25 Not Much of A Speechmaker John Visser; 27 Shark's Nose Robert Fontyn; 28 Charcoal Sketch Jeanne Suiter; 28 Civilization John Vanderzee; 32 Under the Eye of a Microscope Rieki Blanke; 34 Large Blue Pot Jan de Boer; 36 Goaty at the Hammond David Ornee; 37 Abortion Marcia Lagerwey
Music
18 Six Miniatures for Three Horns D.aniel Heynen
Prose Non-Fiction
6 The Predicament of Man: Kafka in Review Barbara Peters
Prose Fiction
38 The Actual Circumstances Concerning; The Short but Illustrious Career of Robert Burton as Third Baseman for the Whitneyville Bobcats Daniel DeVries -
Dialogue: January 1969
Staff and writers of Dialogue
Volume: 1, Issue: 1Inaugural issue of Dialogue.
