The editors at North Dakota Quarterly have joined the world in mourning the death and celebrating the life of David Bowie. We defer to NPR’s Terry Gross in our reflection on Bowie’s achievement as both a musician and a cultural phenomenon. “We wanted to manufacture a new kind of
Perhaps no author is more closely associated with North Dakota Quarterly than Thomas McGrath. In recent years, his work as a definitive poet of the Northern Plains or the American West has received renewed interest and attention. Charlotte Mandel’s recent essay in Poets’ Quarterly captures the scope and tone of
As the Northern Plains fall under the grip of winter, I thought it would be nice to enjoy the winter colors of the Winter 1991 (59.1) by UND alumnus William Gay. The volume features stories by Dainis Hanzer and Sharon Pugh, a poem reflecting on the second decade of AIDS
Our managing editor Kate Sweney and our digital editor, Bill Caraher, joined the nice folks over at Prairie Public Radio’s Main Street to talk about the most recent volume of NDQ and some changes that we see in the future. Bill Thomas reads one of the poems and we explore
A couple years ago, two University of North Dakota faculty members, Brett Ommen and Joel Jonientz told the story of Christmas from a different perspective on their brilliant and tragically short-lived podcast, Professor Footnote. Because the internet remembers, it is still available for our listening. Take an hour or so
Congratulations to Scott Olsen whose “Nine Variations on the Idea of Street Music” appeared in this month’s Utne Reader. It originally appeared in North Dakota Quarterly 80.3. The articles looks at nine incidents of street music accompanied by a pair of vibrant black-and-white photographs. I won’t wreck the elegance of
For students and faculty across the country, this is finals or grading week, and this gives particular meaning to Jan Sher’s cover photograph from the Fall 2006 North Dakota Quarterly. It’s the light that we all see at the end of the long semester. Be sure to check out Neil
North Dakota Quarterly is around to announce the poems and stores nominated for this year’s Pushcart Prize: The Best of Small Presses. In 2008, “Overwintering in Fairbanks” by Erica Keiko Iseri which appeared in NDQ 73.3-4 (2006). You can read it here. This year, we’ve nominated six more works: 2
North Dakota Quarterly had a problem. At some point during the history of this journal, we fell behind in the volume numbers and dates. Volume 79 had a date of 2011, but did not appear until 2012; volume 80 was dated 2013, but the last numbers did not appear until
People usually don’t associate popular music with science. In fact, most people see pop music as little more than a pleasant distraction whereas science represents the intricate rhythms that structure our world. Some folks know, of course, that Brain May from Queen has a PhD in astrophysics, Greg Graffin from
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