Calls to Dabaab (published in NDQ 84.1/2) Yahya Frederickson Fargo, North Dakota Sharif’s wife points me to the diwan, where Sharif and several other men sit on the floor around a phone. I say salaam, shake hands, offer condolences for the relative who died. There’s a tap on the doorjamb—the
Refugee Body (published in NDQ 84.1/2) Lois Roma-Deeley If I could speak from the afterlife, my first words would be: the sea is harsh and unforgiving and I would tell you leave this city of tanks and guns—and everyone we’ve ever known. Our church will fill with soldiers. Women will
My Life=A Haiku: The Transnational Eco-Ecesis of an Anatolian Boy via Creativity in the Age of the Anthropocene (published in NDQ 84.1/2) Yusuf Eradam PDF To my late cats Minnosh, Poe Yavri Mou, and the present ones Raki and Sharab If you understand others, you have
By That Spurious Lyricism: Translations of Three Poems by Alberto Girri (published in NDQ 84.1/2) Cody Deitz PDF Alberto Girri (1919–1991) was an Argentine poet, journalist, and translator. Beyond the prolific body of his own poetry spanning some thirty volumes, Girri is perhaps best known for
Elizabeth Hellstern (Inscribed in the granite base of the “Prairie Grass Ballet” sculpture in The Arts Center’s Hansen Arts Park, Jamestown, ND) Somewhere below the sky highways is one of those lost places in which I have found myself. If you’re not from the prairie you can’t know such simple
It’s that time of year again. No, not the Nobel Prize awards. That’s so yesterday. But the Pushcart Prizes, according to its website, “the most honored literary project in America.” The annual publication represents the best stories, poetry and essays submitted by editors of small presses and little magazines. A
If you’re in the Twin Cities today and a Thomas McGrath fan, you might want to stop by the University Club on 420 Summit Ave. in St. Paul at 7 pm for a reading from his epic poem “Letters to an Imaginary Friend” and discussion of his life and legacy. Here’s the
By Lee Ann Roripaugh I agree to speak, but only on condition of anonymity I worry about my children being ostracized at school and still feel much shame for being unable to prevent over 150 thousand people having to flee their homes in the nuclear exclusion zone it happened so
It’s not that unusual for our two editors – Bill Caraher and Sharon Carson – to agree on something, and this week our tendency to agree made it easy to post something to celebrate Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize in literature. At North Dakota Quarterly, we have a soft spot for poets from the
Round Baby Believes in Ghosts —for Carol Anne Baby believes in ghosts, of course she does. She can feel if not see their misty outlines, their heat wave patterns rising from some energy field, their once-corporal forms. Baby’s ghosts belong to her. Ancestral and loving, she longs to touch their
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