Media

Video Podcast Series. Developed, written, filmed, and edited by Iowa Poet Laureate, Debra Marquart.  Funded by Humanities Iowa and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Curated Installation of Telepoem Booth. Co-editors: Debra Marquart, Rustin Larson, Elizabeth Hellstern. January 2020. Curated 180 poems from 93 Iowa poets for Iowa Telepoem Booth Installation.

Debra Marquart. Small Buried Things: A Poet’s Response to Extraction, Bedrock Lecture Series, Oregon State University.  Part of eighteen-part video lecture series submitted to the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights, Fracking, and Climate Change, an international tribunal that deliberated the global effects of fracking on human rights, the environment, and climate change. Rome, Italy.  May 2018.

“Some Things About that Day.”  Art of the Essay Lecture Series.  Great Courses Series.  The Teaching Company.  Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black.  2016.

Selected poems by Debra Marquart translated to Braille and incorporated into ceramic pieces for It’s Not Neither: Scale and consequence in Braille installations, an exhibition of work by Ingrid Lilligren, professor and chair of the ISU Department of Art and Visual Culture. September, 2016.

“Lake Effect”

“Poor You”

“Buoy”

Featured Interview.  Director, Bob Dambach.  At Home in Russia, at Home in the Prairie.  Prairie Public Television Documentary, Fargo, ND. 2012.

“How Bad News Comes.”  Poem featured by Garrison Keillor on NPR’s, The Writer’s Almanac.  4 May 2011.

“My Father’s Wallet.”  Featured by Garrison Keillor on NPR’s, The Writer’s Almanac. 14 Sept. 2010.

Featured Interview.  Director, Bob Dambach.  It’s All Earth and Sky.  Prairie Public Television Documentary, Fargo, ND. 2010.

The Horizontal World: Interview.  NPR’s “On Point” with Tom Ashbrook.  WBUR, Boston.  August 8, 2006.

Cyclone Gateway Project, Memorial Union, Iowa State University. Lines from poetry featured in south entrance floor medallion of ISU Memorial Union.

“Palimpsest.”  Commissioned Poem.  ISU University Museums, Public Art Project. Poem to accompany Doug Shelton mural, Unlimited Possibilities, 1997.

Talk of Iowa, Book Club with Charity Nebbe. “Richard Powers, The Overstory Discussion.” Discussed Powers’ novel with two other scholars for Talk of Iowa Book Club. 23 March 2021.

The Best of Brevity. A VIDA Interview. VIDA Women and the Literary Arts. Edited by Amy Butcher, Best of Brevity Anthology. Interviewees: Jamila Osman, Debra Marquart, Alexis Wiggins, and Torrey Peters. (2020)

Talk of Iowa, Book Club with Charity Nebbe. “Ted Kooser, Delights & Shadows Book Discussion.” Discussed Kooser poems with two other Iowa poets for Talk of Iowa Book Club. 10 June 2020.

Interview. Talk of Iowa, Iowa Public Radio, Charity Nebbe.  “Creativity in Quarantine.” Debra Marquart interviewed with two other Iowa artists, Claudia McGheehee and Dan Knight. 11 May 2020.

Interview. “Poems for Uncertain Times.” Interview with Michael Morain, Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs. 14 April 2020.

Poetry Feature.  “Even on a Sunday Drive.” Journey Daily Podcast, edited by Sharon Foley. 18 Feb. 2020.

Poetry Feature. “Kablooey is the Sound You’ll Hear.” Journey Daily Podcast, edited by Sharon Foley. 19 Feb. 2020.

Poetry Feature. “Traveling with Guitar.” Poetry from Studio 47, hosted by Patrick Hicks. South Dakota Public Radio.  6 March 2020.

Video Feature/Interview. “Change Agent: Debra Marquart.” Iowa State University News Service. Displayed on Iowa State University main website. June 2019 – August, 2019.

Feature & Interview “Debra Marquart, Poet Laureate.” Don McLeese. The Iowan Magazine. Fall 2019.

Interview.  “In Class with Professor Debra Marquart.” Frontier Poetry. 29 May 2019.