Bill Caraher | One of the things that I’m most proud of during my time at NDQ is working with my fellow editors to get most of the back issues of the journal released under various open access licenses (some, of course, have already entered the public domain!). This allows
We’ve had a bit of a backlog and decided to close submissions for a while to catch up. Now, we’re caught up… ish and ready to see what folks have for us! Go here to submit poetry, essays, or fiction. There are three things you might want consider before sending
We are very excited to announce that issue 92.3/4 went off to our publishing partners at the University of Nebraska Press this week. The table of contents for this issue filled with fiction, essays, reviews, and poetry appears below. It will feature brilliant cover art from Jessica Halonen. Thank you
Bill Caraher | I have an ulterior motive for posting another archival article today and if you’re a committed reader of the NDQ blog you’ll figure it out later this month. For now, I present to you Orin G. Libby‘s (whom we call O.G. Libby around the NDQ office [which
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
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
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
Bill Caraher | Over the last few weeks, I’ve been using Google’s Gemini Notebook LM function to do some remote reading of the first 25 issues of North Dakota Quarterly (1910-1934). This amounts to just under 8500 pages of text. I’m looking to write a short article on these volumes,
Sharon Carson | It’s not at all surprising that in recent years, readers and activists around the world have turned to the work of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), a political philosopher preoccupied with human plurality and freedom, with thinking through the contingencies of history, with thinking and acting creatively and collaboratively
We understand that we haven’t necessarily been the best at maintaining the blog over the last few months. This is because we’ve fallen behind with most aspects of running North Dakota Quarterly. As some small — and ironic — consolation, it would appear that our publishing partners at the University
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