by marquart@iastate.edu | Aug 15, 2025 | Recent Publications
If I had been a better college student / attended lectures instead of reading / unassigned novels in my dorm room / maybe I would have learned about /holometabolism earlier and known “Metamorphosis.” Poetry commissioned by University Museums, in response to The...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Aug 15, 2025 | Recent Publications
for a long time we might enjoy the box we’re born into comfortable in the edges pre-made to shape us then hunger arises or war or desire and pressed by necessity we must seek what’s outside the drawn lines beyond the...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Aug 15, 2025 | Recent Publications
imagine the grave voyage of the lipid nanoparticle infinitesimally small nano from the greek for dwarf a gossamer vessel spun from lipids microscopic fatty molecules bound together durable enough to traverse the body’s inner...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Aug 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Debra Marquart’s essay, “How Fish Learned to Sing,” received the Winter 2025 Story Award from Narrative Magazine. The essay–which is a chapter from Marquart’s in-progress acoustic ecology on music, singing, the spectacle of performance,...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Apr 28, 2024 | Recent Publications
To spend a blustery spring afternoon walking the acres of WildWay with Marlene Ehresman, the longtime Executive Director of the Iowa Wildlife Center, is to enter into the dream of the place. Marquart, Debra. “Healing the Wild.” The Iowan. November/December 2022: 17...
