Exquisite Tangent The Tapestry of Bayeux It winds through the rooms, enormous. Orange, umber, flora and fauna, exquisite technique, serpents uncoiling, the meaning of hounds, stallions stitched with sea-blue hooves. Imagine that Meteors Fall into the limbs of a cherry tree and they set the pink blossoms ablaze. The petals
We should hear poetry read. With almost every issue of North Dakota Quarterly, Bill Thomas, the Director of Radio at Prairie Public Radio, reads some of the most recent issue. Check it out on Main Street at the 27 minute mark.
Two poems by Katharine Coles from NDQ 80.4-82.4. She’s a featured speaker at this years University of North Dakota Writers Conference. Subtraction Katharine Coles The black art of “borrowing” . . . is only a little more baroque than that of “carrying.” Steven Stogatz, The New York Times Hard to
He Will Cover You with His Feathers Rhiannon Conley I am thinking about two hornbills I saw in the Milwaukee zoo the day my sister runs away with her new boyfriend. She, just nineteen, the whitest in our family’s flock of black, submits her confession: “I am pregnant.” She will
We were happy to see that our poetry editor Heidi Czerwiec had a poem published in the most recent issues of Tinderbox Poetry Journal 2.5 (2016). The poem is titled “I Never Saw a Goddess Go” and you can read it here. A single poem, on a single post might
Congratulations to our poetry editor (and friend Heidi Czerwiec) for her award winning essay “Nervous Systems.” It won first prize in the Baltimore Review’s competition for works on the body. Go read it here. Her poem explores the complex relationships with our body’s most-mysterious nervous system and the birth mother
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
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
It seems like a perfect day to showcase North Dakota Quarterly’s long tradition of American Poetry. Tomorrow at 7 pm at the North Dakota Museum of Art NDQ will host a group of poets who contributed to an anthology of North Dakota poets titled North Dakota is Everywhere. For more
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