Month: September 2023

The poetry of Brandon Krieg

Bill Caraher | As I dig back through the NDQ Archives, it’s great to see names that appear both in issues edited by the former editors (especially Bob Lewis) and in those that have appeared over the last five years. Earlier this week, I was drawn to a poem by

Clell Gannon on the Missouri

Bill Caraher | As readers of this blog know, I’ve been a bit obsessed with the prairie poet Clell Gannon recently. In fact, I’m working to produce a “centennial edition” of his 1924 book of poems Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres. As part of that process, I’m doing a

Another Look at the Archives: Slow

Bill Caraher | One of my first opportunities to contribute to NDQ was as part of an expanded and refreshed editorial board. This was in 2014, and I supposed it emboldened me to proposed naively an issue dedicated to the “slow” movement. When it appeared a year later, I felt

The Knock-On Impact of Little Magazines

Bill Caraher | Every now and then we hear about how an author got their start publishing a story, poem, or essay in a little magazine. These are heartwarming stories particularly in situations where the author goes on the greater renown. There are a lot of other stories that reveal

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