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...
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:...
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...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Jan 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
ISU-based environmental journal, Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, to launch magical illustrated book about a flying cow for readers of all ages at Ames Public Library on November 7. In March of 2020, the editorial staff of Flyway: Journal of Writing &...