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North Dakota Quarterly

Issue 88.3/4 

Table of Contents

Erratum 

The Art of Reinaldo Gil Zambrano

Special Section

The Poetry of Don Quisenberry 
            Paul Worley

Baseball Cards
Vocations
Time to Quit
Words
Grasping at the Poet Rumi
What If
           Don Quisenberry

 Fiction

1967
           Peter D. Gorman 

An Arcane Saga
           Cynthia Graae 

Protective Instinct
           Kasey Peters   

 The Famous Patient
           Talia Deitsch  

 Earache
           Trudy Lewis 

The Story I Tell Myself
           Ian Woollen

Essays 

Pilgrim at Fifty-Third and Fifth
           George Choundas

 In Praise of Grass
           Judith Fetterley 

The Kid’s Last Stand
           Steve Wing 

Teach a Girl to Make a Fire
           Serrana Laure 

Reviews 

Finding Self in the Bakken North Dakota Oil Boom
            Richard Rothaus

Whither Sun Ra?
           William Caraher

 Poetry

 the mitt
           Corbett Buchly 

The Book Lady
           Nolo Segundo

Cold Grapes
           Danny Barbare 

Blood Orange
           Hollie Dugas 

Street Talk
           Lolalee Walker 

Office Above a Busy Sidewalk
Riding the Tiger’s Head
           Robert Tremmel

 Psychic Overload: The Watchman Considers
           Mark DeFoe 

The Shower 
Your June
Day Job
           A Whittenberg 

Going to Ruin Is Silent Work
           Andrew Gent

Aftermath
           Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri

Archaeology of Rumors
           Tom Daley 

Temporary Measure
Original Lesson
           Autumn Schraufnagel

Jackrabbit Round Up
           John Krumberger

Plain Living
           John Zedolik 

July 20,1969
           Susan Michele Coronel

Off-Road Diner: Panhandle, Oklahoma
Red Oklahoma Cries  
           Susan Kates

By the Roadside
Bog Jumping
           Jeanine Stevens 

Whatever is going on
Ibis
           Twixt

An invitation to workers
Learning the time and the alphabet
           Spartakos Anganostaras

I reckon a move to Cuba
           Ron L. Dowell 

Tidal Wave
Outside
          Kye Woodward-Ganz

Portrait
           Brenton Booth 

Hard Times
The Persistence of Memory
Snapshots of Brighton
         Robert McNamara 

Thanksgiving, 1993
Preservation
           Mallory Nygard

Collaborators
Euchre
           David Sapp

Winter Ghazal
          D.S. Waldman

Glass
          Matthew J. Andrews

 The Tree in Our Garden
           Milton P. Ehrlich

Christmas
           Clint Bowman

What Winter Brings
Trailblazing
What Else Have You Got?
What Is Done
When My Valentine Explains the Universe
           Helen Marie Casey

Through the Plane Window
           Hannah Whiteman 

Vigil
Lore
          Kareem Tayyar 

Ode to the Glass Slipper
           Stephanie L. Harper 

Salting the Driveway (With Help)
            Robert Fillman

Tears
           Laura Zucca-Scott 

Grief
My mom is not
          Emma Charlton 

North Dakota Gold
           Garland Strother 

hummingbird in my hollyhocks
           Bonnie Larson Staiger 

Cardinals
Birdcalls
           Cameron Morse 

Robin
A Word for Crow
          John Minczeski

Hell Was Full, So I Came Back
What Seems to Be My Life
          J. Tarwood

Host
Holding
Hawk
          Becky Kennedy

Brief Delight
           Frederick Wilbur

Finishing My First Agatha Christie Novel over Breakfast, Then the News
           Lisa Creech Bledsoe 

Earth
           Dana Holley Maloney 

Birds After a Fashion
           Rebecca Lilly 

Anderson Elv
           James Gifford 

Sleep
Friday Namaz
          Faiz Ahmad 

for the evil eye
conversations
          Kashiana Singh

Sonnet on Being Truly Lucky
           William J. Joel

The Howl
My Daughter and I Gather Stones at Empire Beach
          Kimberly Ann Priest

Robins Revisited
Song for Curtis Hayes
          John Steven Beauchamp

Christ Came Down to Capel Celyn
Tobacco Offering in a Welsh Graveyard
            Brett Evans

A Little Coat of the Metaphysical
Wordt
          Mark Wagenaar

Almost 
Front
Dragonflies Hunting
          Matthew J. Spireng

That Lighter, Brighter World We Sleep In
Boomerang Poem
          Deborah H. Doolittle

That Moment
           Anthony DiMatteo

“Dust (Singapore Galaxy)” — Ni Youyu
           Peter J. King

Tenebrists
          Timothy Dodd

 Making Room
           Bruce Cohen

Even with Eyes Open
Letter to Terwilliger from Nowhere
The Spreading Wide
          Robert Okaji

Sick and Sad
           Janelle Cordero

Desolate
          Olaitan Humble

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