“The Taste of Home” | Humanities North Dakota: Sense of Place (2021)

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

At the Bismarck Airport, I pick up the jar of chokecherry jelly in the gift shop before boarding my flight back to Iowa. Not sure when I’ll make it home to North Dakota again. “Taste of Home.” On Second Thought | Sense of Place Issue. Humanities North Dakota (April)...

“Tell It Cool: On Writing with Restraint” | New Ohio Review (2020)

by marquart@iastate.edu | Sep 23, 2021 | Recent Publications

For years, I’ve encouraged students to “tell it cool” when narrating a tale that is harrowing or emotional. A cool narrator can be a buoy in rough waters. I’ve always thought this advice came from Hemingway, but at this moment as I search my bookshelves for the place...

“On the Ephemerality of Things: Thoughts on the Demise of a Small Literary Press” | High Plains Reader (2020)

by marquart@iastate.edu | Sep 23, 2021 | Recent Publications

A few years ago, I was giving a talk at the Fargo Public Library about researching and writing my book, The Horizontal World, which is a memoir about growing up a rebellious farmer’s daughter on a North Dakota wheat farm. In the 1970s, I was a college student at...

“Come November” Dear America Anthology (2020)

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

come cold eye corrective, come pendulum take wrecking ball to venerable walls   “Come November.”  Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, edited by Simmons Buntin, Elizabeth Dodd, and Derek Sheffield, Trinity University Press, 2020, pp....

“Some Things About That Day” | Best of Brevity Anthology (2020)

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

The placards I walked through. The wet raincoat on a hook. The questionnaire on a clipboard placed before me. “Some Things About that Day.” Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction, edited by Dinty Moore and Zoë Bossiere. Rose Metal Press,...