North Dakota Quarterly for the Holidays

Looking for a last second holiday gift?  Consider giving a subscription to NDQ! Not only will you receive two double issues each year filled with poetry, essays, and fiction as well as reviews and photographs, but you’ll also support the work of a century-old periodical and our authors.  Or maybe

Issue by the Cover

We’re excited to release the cover of issue 91.3/4 today. It’s by Alex Blau and titled Call and Echo and from 2019 (Acrylic on canvas. 36” x 36”).  A proofed copy of the issue is in the hands of our publisher and with any luck should be on its way

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Bill Caraher | Every now and then I dip back into the NDQ archive. Not only can it be pleasant to read some of century-old rumination, but it can often feel prescient. Lately, I’ve been contemplating writing a short history of the first “series” of North Dakota Quarterly published between

New Book Day: The Muslims of Darürrahat

I’m tremendously excited to announce the publication of Ismail Gaspirali’s The Muslims of Darürrahat, translated by Çiğdem Pala Mull and edited by Sharon Carson. This book is published in collaboration with The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota as part of NDQ’s unofficial supplement series. The book is

Tacitus, Agricola

Bill Caraher | The events of the past week have likely tested our national reserve of empathy and will probably continue to do so.  In these situations, I find myself turning to literature — often ancient literature — to find my place in the world. This week, I turned to

Open Access Week!

Those of you who follow such things know that it is International Open Access Week! This is the week where publishers, authors, and readers celebrate open access publishing and publication. While at NDQ we recognize that Open Access publishing isn’t necessarily suitable for every situation and circumstance, we are also

Issue 91.3/4 Table of Contents

It is my pleasure to present the table of contents for North Dakota Quarterly 91.3/4! This issue will be heavily slanted toward prose with 10 short stories, 7 essays, a photo essay, and a small handful of poems including the reprint of a pair of coyote poems by North Dakota

Some Mumbo Jumbo in the Quarterly

Bill Caraher |  There are a lot of things going on the world these days, but I still hope there’s time to appreciate the work of Ishmael Reed, particularly his novel Mumbo Jumbo (1972). For reasons best left unsaid, I’ve been reading around about Mumbo Jumbo over the last few

Fiction by Michael Merlo

Yesterday at about 5 pm I submitted the manuscripts for NDQ 91.3/4. To celebrate that, I decided to post a story from NDQ 91.1/2.   Here’s Michael Merlo’s atmospheric story of love and loss. Rest Assured Before Jean left for work in the morning, she said she wished things were

Archaeology and Poety

Bill Caraher | In the summers, I do archaeology and I’ve always fantasized about a special section of NDQ dedicated to archaeology and poetry or perhaps even archaeological poetry. I’m not sure what this would look like, but there was a time when archaeologists dabbled in poetry. I’ve even posted

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