More poetry from NDQ 90.3/4! I know it’s cliche to post love poetry around Valentine’s Day, and it would be even worse to reduce Roseline Mgbodichinma’s poem ‘A galaxy of entropies” to the tired genre of love poetry. It is much more than that, of course, and offers a
I have a soft spot for poetry, art, and music that creates a sense of motion through a landscape. I attribute this interest to too many hours looking out the bus window on my trips home from school as a kid or my more recent work as a landscape archaeology.
We’re excited to continue to share some work from the latest issue of NDQ. Molly Weisgau’s story “Little Fingers” from NDQ 90.3/4 invites you into the unsettling world of traumatic memories suffused with displacements and pain. It’s a haunting story that exemplifies the pressure that short fiction can exert on
The beauty of good short fiction comes through even when it’s bad. Or something like that. Max Blue’s story from NDQ 90.3/4, “How to Write Good or the Bad Story Ever” is a funny and awkward but somehow also touching piece of short fiction that embodies the best (and also
North Dakota Quarterly is proudly edited at the University of North Dakota, and life at NDQ world headquarters is shaped by the rhythm of campus life. We not only enjoy the assistance of UND students, but our editors are faculty either at UND or elsewhere. As a result, Lori D’Angelo’s
It’s getting toward wintertime here in North Dakotaland, and this past week we enjoyed a couple of frosty mornings. These prompted me to share Matthew Brennan’s contribution to NDQ 90.3/4 which is almost on its way to the printer. It is a lovely reverie on the changing seasons that could
We’re really excited to share the cover of our next issue of NDQ 90.3/4 this week. The last of the proof edits go back to our publishing partners at University of Nebraska Press and, with any luck, it should be winging its way to our subscribers and contributors with the
I have a little tradition of making sure that the last work in any issue of NDQ gets a little extra attention here on the website. For NDQ 90.3/4, it’s Nathan Whiting’s poem “To Scale.” Its unconventional formatting shakes up what it means to read a text and to experience
We are excited to announce that issue 90.3/4 has gone to our publishing partners at the University of Nebraska Press for typesetting and printing. To celebrate this milestone in the publication process, find a preliminary table of contents below! Fiction Little FingersMolly Weisgrau That Type of GirlEvelyn Maguire Straight
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