North Dakota Quarterly 88:3/4

North Dakota Quarterly 88:3/4

Edited by William Caraher

Table Of Contents

Volume 88, Numbers 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2021)

Contents

Erratum
The Art of Reinaldo Gil Zambrano 

Special Section
The Poetry of Don Quisenberry
Paul Worley

Baseball Cards
Vocations
Time to Quit
Words
Grasping at the Poet Rumi
What If
Don Quisenberry

Fiction
1967
Peter D. Gorman

An Arcane Saga
Cynthia Graae

Protective Instinct
Kasey Peters

The Famous Patient
Talia Deitsch

Earache
Trudy Lewis

The Story I Tell Myself
Ian Woollen

Essays
Pilgrim at Fifty-Third and Fifth
George Choundas

In Praise of Grass
Judith Fetterley

The Kid’s Last Stand
Steve Wing

Teach a Girl to Make a Fire
Serrana Laure

Reviews
Finding Self in the Bakken North Dakota Oil Boom
Richard M. Rothaus

Whither Sun Ra?
William Caraher

Poetry
the mitt
Corbett Buchly

The Book Lady
Nolo Segundo

Cold Grapes
Danny P. Barbare

Blood Orange
Hollie Dugas

Street Talk
Lolalee Walke

Office Above a Busy Sidewalk
Riding the Tiger’s Head
Robert Tremmel

Psychic Overload: The Watchman Considers
Mark DeFoe

The Shower
Your June
Day Job
A Whittenberg

Going to Ruin Is Silent Work
Andrew Gent

Aftermath
Hege Anita Jakobsen Lepri

Archaeology of Rumors
Tom Daley

Temporary Measure
Original Lesson
Autumn Schraufnagel

Jackrabbit Round Up
Stephen Barile

Not the First
John Krumberger

Plain Living
John Zedolik

July 20, 1969
Susan Michele Coronel

Off-Road Diner: Panhandle, Oklahoma
Red Oklahoma Cries
Susan Kates 

By the Roadside
Bog Jumping
Jeanine Stevens

Whatever is going on
Ibis
Twixt

An invitation to workers
Learning the time and the alphabet
Spartakos Anganostaras

I reckon a move to Cuba
Ron L. Dowell

Tidal Wave
Outside
Kye Woodward-Ganz

Portrait
Brenton Booth

Hard Times
The Persistence of Memory
Snapshots of Brighton
Robert McNamara

Thanksgiving, 1993
Preservation
Mallory Nygard

Collaborators
Euchre
David Sapp

Winter Ghazal
D.S. Waldman

Glass
Matthew J. Andrews

The Tree in Our Garden
Milton P. Ehrlich 

Christmas
Clint Bowman

What Winter Brings
Trailblazing
What Else Have You Got?
What Is Done
When My Valentine Explains the Universe
Helen Marie Casey

Through the Plane Window
Hannah Whiteman

Vigil
Lore
Kareem Tayyar

Ode to the Glass Slipper
Stephanie L. Harper

Salting the Driveway (With Help)
Robert Fillman

Tears
Laura Zucca-Scott

Grief
My mom is not
Emma Charlton

North Dakota Gold
Garland Strother

hummingbird in my hollyhocks
Bonnie Larson Staiger

Cardinals
Birdcalls
Cameron Morse

Robin
A Word for Crow
John Minczeski

Hell Was Full, So I Came Back
What Seems to Be My Life
J. Tarwood

Host
Holding
Hawk
Becky Kennedy

Brief Delight
Frederick Wilbur

Finishing My First Agatha Christie Novel over Breakfast, Then the News
Lisa Creech Bledsoe

Earth
Dana Holley Maloney

Birds After a Fashion
Rebecca Lilly

Anderson Elv
James Gifford

Sleep
Friday Namaz
Faiz Ahmad

for the evil eye
conversations
Kashiana Singh

Sonnet on being truly lucky
William J. Joel

The Howl
My Daughter and I Gather Stones at Empire Beach
Kimberly Ann Priest

Robins Revisited
Song for Curtis Hayes
John Steven Beauchamp

Christ Came Down to Capel Celyn
Tobacco Offering in a Welsh Graveyard
Brett Evans

A Little Coat of the Metaphysical
Wordt
Mark Wagenaar

Almost
Front
Dragonflies Hunting
Matthew J. Spireng

That Lighter, Brighter World We Sleep In
Boomerang Poem
Deborah H. Doolittle

That Moment
Anthony DiMatteo

“Dust (Singapore Galaxy)”—Ni Youyu
Peter J. King

Tenebrists
Timothy Dodd

Making Room
Bruce Cohen

Even with Eyes Open
Letter to Terwilliger from Nowhere
The Spreading Wide
Robert Okaji

Sick and Sad
Janelle Cordero

Desolate
Olaitan Humble