Earlier this month, North Dakota Quarterly 92.1/2 went to our publishing partner at the University of Nebraska Press. Last week, I shared the lovely editors’ note authored by the students in a practicum in writing, editing, and publishing who assembled the Quarterly. This week, I’m sharing the table of contents!
Fiction
The Truth Within
Cynthia Graae
The Boilermaker’s Wife
Kelly Schoenegge
The Amazons
Claudia Gottridge
Whose Story?
Kevin Lavey
Essays
Great Gatsby, North Dakotan
Amber Burke
Zero-Zero Star
Jenn Blair
On Wounds and Silence
Ygor Noblott
What Can Happen in Ohio (According to the New York Times’ “Notable Books”)?
Anesa Miller
I Think They’re Shooting at Us
Kyle Abbott Smith
Resurrection
Jim Daniels
View from Living Room G320 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Patti Kameya
Poetry
January Weekends
Request
Eighty and Six
David Solheim
Magnifying Winter
Not in Control
Ode To My Pencil
Corridor of Doors
Diane Webster
Father of the Groom
Driving Home in a Blizzard at Sixteen
Search Party
Dana Salvador
Two visual poems from Lovers Leap
C.R.E. Wells
“Careless Love”
The First Time an Airline Lost My Suitcase
The Calculus of Affection
Susana H. Case
Tilting
Pre-Post-Mortem
Jane Blanchard
Music for the Heart
Brenton Booth
Cords
Cape Forchu, Nova Scotia
Isabel Cristina Legarda
Rum Raisin Ice Cream
Aren’t All Children’s Hospitals Basically Haunted Houses
Broken Eggs
Sumit Parikh
I Remember Charlie
Stephen Barile
How Many Miles Away is Heaven?
The Day the Devil Brought Us to Church
Choices
It’s Elemental
Bethany Jarmul
God, might we be your world
Alicia Aranyi
Sore Afraid
Kevin Grauke
New Parents
Inventory Control
Bobby Elliot
Love and Loathing
Of All that Is Without and Within
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas
Kurdt
reading Aracelis Girmay after listening to “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” on repeat
Steven Hollander
Where Chromosomes Cross
Zanzibar in Relation
Elly Katz
What doesn’t make you stronger will certainly kill you
The flux of real time
Josef Krebs
Don’t Look Back
Laine Derr
Eavesdropped
Maybe
Christopher Joseph
Where I Was, Sixty Years Ago
Sincerely Yours
John S. Eustis
Kayembé
Lament for the little banana
Landa Wo
Emily as Amid the Damage
Emily as the Sand Must Be Happy
Darren C. Demaree
How Do You Paddle Your Way Out?
Jim Tilley
Fuchsia
Amaranth
Shocking Pink
Toni Holland
Pink Acrylic Nails
Tiny Stone Whales
Mercury Sunderland
nothing so simple
Corbett Buchly
Petersburg Elegy
Coleman Taylor
Woman, Why Not Uber?
This is the Effect I Crave and Cannot Easily Conjure
L. Lois
Forest Fire
Prachika Dhaubhadel
What to Wear While Saving France
What the Lake Thinks
Red Osier Dogwood
Texture
Christine Madline Ellsworth
Magnitude
Everywhere
Waltz
Angie Macri
Love in the Underworld
Hollie Dugas
Loveproof
You’ll know forgiveness
Keka Simon
Let’s All Go To The Moon
H.L. Dowless
Love Letter
Love Letter
A. Molotkov
Highly Regarded
University
Taking Our Son to College in the Morning
Jeff McRae
The Day I Ran Faster Than God
Driving II
Marc Janssen
The Mockingbird’s Lament
Ayaan Fahad
A Heron Flies Low
Jim Krosschell
Near O’Neill, Nebraska
The Truth
John Mullen
Mastery
Mud Flats
Robert McNamara
On An Earth Day Like Today
Ndaba Sibanda
Highland Ave. Stroll
Hiking Harriman State Park
J.M. Hall
May Shower
Richard Dinges
Cloud Haiku
Ocean Haiku
Joshua St. Claire
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