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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
