“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. Marquart_Des Moines...

“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...

“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)...