Debra Marquart Contributes Poem to Celebration of 175th Anniversary of Iowa’s Statehood

by marquart@iastate.edu | Jan 3, 2022 | Uncategorized

Iowa turns 175 on Dec. 28. Gov. Kim Reynolds and other distinguished Iowans reflect on what the statehood anniversary means. Des Moines Register Published 4:46 PM CST Dec. 23, 2021 Updated 10:21 AM CST Dec. 24, 2021 As the state turns 175 on Dec. 28, all Iowans have...

“When the First Love of the One You Love Dies” | North American Review (2021)

by marquart@iastate.edu | Jan 3, 2022 | Recent Publications

When the First Love of the One You Love Dies   something in you goes silent, too. didn’t she lap up all the sweetness with a hungry tongue, the hot fudge   sundaes he delivered to her front porch swing, summer nights after his first job folding men’s shirts...

“Gratitude with Dogs Under Stars” | Des Moines Register (2021)

by marquart@iastate.edu | Jan 3, 2022 | Recent Publications

  bless this night bless the small bladders of dogs urgent under moonlight Marquart, Debra.  “Gratitude with Dogs Under Stars.” Des Moines Register. Iowa Poet Laureate poem to commemorate Iowa’s 175th Anniversary. 23 Dec. 2021....

“At 79, My Mother Decides to Plant Trees” | Fourth Genre (2021)

by marquart@iastate.edu | Sep 22, 2021 | Recent Publications

They loom over us like sequoias, our parents. In my first holy communion photos, they flank me, grave and unsmiling in formal black clothes—my father’s wool suit, my mother’s boucle skirt, long gloves, and short jacket.   “At 79, My Mother Decides to Plant...

“Small Buried Things,” Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change (2021)

by marquart@iastate.edu | Sep 17, 2021 | Recent Publications

Frack first the bakken     then the three forks formation     even deeper the oil patch, they call it two miles below the surface oil embedded in shale late devonian     remnants of the anoxic sea      the coastal carbonite layer deposited when the middlewest was...