by marquart@iastate.edu | Apr 28, 2024 | Recent Publications
In the dojo, Master Yun taught us that to break the board you must level your fist, your foot, your knifed palm not at the board itself but beyond the board, through the board, trained on the torso of the one who grasps the board. Only then the broken board becomes a...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Dec 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
On this November 14, 2023 episode of Talk of Iowa, Debra Marquart joins host Charity Nebbe to discuss her new collection Gratitude with Dogs Under Stars. Click to Listen to Podcast
by marquart@iastate.edu | Dec 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Debra Marquart’s long poem, “Leave it in the Ground,” selected from international pool for shortlist honors. Winners in both categories (poetry and fiction) will be announced at a gala in Manchester UK on December 8th. The Poetry Prize...
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...
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...