by marquart@iastate.edu | Aug 15, 2025 | Recent Publications
My boy name. For years I pestered my mother: What was my boy name? My parents had picked two names and discarded the boy name after I was born. But who was the shadow that walked inside me? I felt him in my every step. My mother could never remember. “How Fish Learned...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Aug 15, 2025 | Recent Publications
is the movie called america / a high octane action-packed / thriller with plot twists galore / enough to white knuckle flip / the bottom of your stomach / & boomerang your senses “all the rage this winter,” terrain.org. 10 June 2025. [link]...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Aug 15, 2025 | Recent Publications
go in august with sisters / down the fly buzz dusty / rows of elms ashes poplars –“Chokecherry” I kept the beige wall-mounted trimline telephone / with its lighted touchpad & Bell South label / hanging from its metal plate on my kitchen wall...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Aug 15, 2025 | Recent Publications
Sometimes learning hurts. / The burnished brick and mortar / of Morrill Hall, so solid and distinguished. “Intervention.” Poetry commissioned by University Museum, in response to sculpture, Transformation, by Albert Paley. Iowa State University Museums. 2025....
by marquart@iastate.edu | Aug 15, 2025 | Recent Publications
brackish seas spread shallow over shark’s teeth and coral reefs where boreal forests coniferous evergreens / rose and fell left resinous needles // wind-pollinated pinecones to mark / their time where subtropical swamps // bequeathed coal...
