“In Defense of the Least Weasel” | Voices from the Prairie (2022)

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...

Independent Book Publishers Association Awards Silver Medal to Debra Marquart’s Memoir, The Night We Landed on the Moon

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...

“What A Writer Needs”| Humanities North Dakota Magazine (2021)

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...

Academy of American Poets Interviews Debra Marquart

by marquart@iastate.edu | Mar 24, 2022 | Uncategorized

Iowa Poet Laureate Debra Marquart was interviewed by the Academy of American Poets about her 2021-2022 Poets Laureate Fellowship. Click here to read full interview. Poets.org: Has being a poet laureate changed your relationship to your own writing in any way? DM:...

Sing the Unstoried Landscape: Stonecoast MFA Program Interviews Debra Marquart

by marquart@iastate.edu | Feb 18, 2022 | Uncategorized

Sing the Unstoried Landscape: Debra Marquart’s The Night We Landed on the Moon and the Poetics of Place Linda Mahal interviews author and faculty member Debra Marquart for the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program. In this wide-ranging interview, Marquart reflects on...