by marquart@iastate.edu | Dec 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
On this November 14, 2023 episode of Talk of Iowa, Debra Marquart joins host Charity Nebbe to discuss her new collection Gratitude with Dogs Under Stars. Click to Listen to Podcast
by marquart@iastate.edu | Dec 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Debra Marquart’s long poem, “Leave it in the Ground,” selected from international pool for shortlist honors. Winners in both categories (poetry and fiction) will be announced at a gala in Manchester UK on December 8th. The Poetry Prize...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Jun 16, 2022 | Recent Publications
world’s tiniest carnivore eight inches long, two ounces. you might think it’s cute but razor teeth, scimitar claws. the least weasel steals the burrows of rats and moles “In Defense of the Least Weasel: Poem & Scientific Note.” Voices from the Prairie: A...
by marquart@iastate.edu | May 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Silver medal honors in the memoir category go to Debra Marquart’s most recent book, The Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays Between Exile & Belonging. The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award program, which include fifty-six categories recognizing excellence in book...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Mar 25, 2022 | Recent Publications
In the spring of 1975, I was walking back to my dorm room at Bismarck Junior College and studying the comments my Freshman English teacher had written on my final paper. All semester, the class had written pragmatic compositions, mostly research papers, but for this...