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
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
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
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
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
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
Congratulations to our fiction editor, Gilad Elbom for his new book: Kabbalah as Literature: The Revolution of Interpretation. You can get a copy here. The editors have not yet read it because it is so hot off the presses, but I want to share the blurb offered by its publisher,
Over the last few issues, NDQ has been working our way through a massive backlog of poetry. Now, we can happily say that we’re almost through. This means, we can reopen poetry submissions this morning. To submit go here. While we don’t charge a reading fee, it would be absolutely
Bill Caraher | I get too many emails and the ones that I open and respond to in a timely way (my apologies to anyone awaiting a response) vary day to day. Yesterday morning, I opened an email telling me that Maria Chávez is performing at Solar Myth, the music
Bill Caraher | There’s something about coyotes and the American imagination. I’ve not seen a coyote in the wild, but I’ve seen signs of coyotes (or maybe signs of foxes… it’s hard for a nonspecialist to tell. I’ve decided that what I see must be from coyotes). I’ve heard coyotes.
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