Month: September 2025

Ten Years of the Quarterly Journal

Bill Caraher | For this week’s post, I thought it would be fun to look back to 1920 and read a little about the Quarterly’s origin story. It amuses me to read that faculty back then were much like faculty now: concerned about having the time and energy to sustain

Poetry by Bobby Elliott

It is always the right time for some poetry, but as we ramp up production on the next issue of NDQ, this poem by Bobby Elliott from NDQ 92.1/2 felt particularly appropriate. Inventory Control When they finally let him go he wasn’t supposed to be ecstatic but he was. He

New Book Day: Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres

Keen-eyed readers of NDQ will remember that in issue 91.3/4 we reprinted a pair of poems from the North Dakota poet Clell Gannon. These poems were meant as a kind of amuse-bouche for the re-publication of Gannon’s Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres.  Today, we are very happy today to

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