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“The Unhappy Hour” | Ascent Magazine (2019)

“The Unhappy Hour” | Ascent Magazine (2019)

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

We charm the waitress in her colorful sombrero at Paradiso Mexican Restaurant when our party of seven arrives. Three tables pushed together against a long booth, the scrape of metal on ceramic tile. It’s $2 margarita pitchers this afternoon, and all the chips and...
“Buried Voices” | Narrative Magazine (2018)

“Buried Voices” | Narrative Magazine (2018)

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

1. Gayle McCormick Baby, It’s You. The high point of Gayle McCormick’s career—when the song she recorded with the band Smith reached number five on the charts—is also where her path becomes obscured. You’ve probably never heard of her. But if you were alive during the...
New Micro Fiction Anthology (2018)

New Micro Fiction Anthology (2018)

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

Somewhere between Hibbing and New York, the red rust streets of the Iron Range and the shipping yards of the Atlantic, somewhere between Zimmerman and Dylan was a pit stop in Fargo…  –“Dylan’s Lost Years” The day after the fire, all their...
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Recent Posts

  • “Healing the Wild” | The Iowan (2022)
  • “Leave it in the Ground” | Manchester Poetry Prize (2023)
  • Charity Nebbe interviews Debra Marquart on Iowa Public Radio
  • Debra Marquart’s poem shortlisted for Manchester Poetry Prize
  • “In Defense of the Least Weasel” | Voices from the Prairie (2022)

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