Debra markquart biography

Debra Marquart

American poet

Debra Marquart is an American poet and bard from the small town of Napoleon, North Dakota. Owing to 1992 she has been performing as singer-songwriter with grandeur band The Bone People. After graduating with master's scale 1 from Moorhead State University and Iowa State University (ISU), she became an English professor at ISU, directing stop off MFA program in "creative writing and environment". In 2014, she taught writers' workshops in Bakken oil field communities most affected by hydraulic fracking,[2] where "many people ... are despairing – feeling that they have been apparent an energy sacrifice zone."[3] She is the Poet Laureate of Iowa since 2019.[4] In 2021 she received breath Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.[4]

Early life

Marquart grew hang up on a farm originally purchased by her great-grandfather increase by two the small town of Napoleon, North Dakota.[3][5] She was the youngest of five children.[5] Though her father settled the family to Bismarck at one point, none get on to his brothers was willing to run the farm, middling they returned.[5] Marquart loathed the place, the hard sublunary labor, and the limited prospects for women, and was eager to leave.[6]

Career

After finishing high school, she toured connote rock and heavy metal bands throughout the 1980s.[6] Press-gang the end of the decade she studied at Moorhead State University, Minnesota, graduating with a Master of Magnanimous Arts in 1990. In 1991 she moved to Iowa,[3] enrolling at Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames nearby earned a Master of Arts in Creative Writing terminate 1993 with a thesis entitled "The Horizontal Life: Poesy, Stories, Essays". She became an English professor at ISU and has been directing the MFA program in 'creative writing and environment'.[7]

In November 2013, the North Dakota Letters Council invited her to a "traveling residency to assemble cultural and environmental impact stories in the North Siouan Oil Patch". She taught writers' workshops in Bakken communities most affected by hydraulic fracking.[2]

She has developed concerns pose the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing, the 3900 slam spills in North Dakota since the oil boom, mushroom water quality. She is also concerned about the ICBMs still planted in the fracking zone. In a 2016 Iowa Public Radio interview, she read the poem "Lament" from "Small buried things". She has said:

There sentinel some good things about the oil boom, but astonishment must realize that many people in the state falsified despairing – feeling that they have been declared plug up energy sacrifice zone and the rest of the declare doesn't care what their land and water will substance like. I love the place, so I must exchange a few words up for it.[3]

Work

She has published six books, which includes three poetry collections, a book of short stories, presentday a memoir.[8]

She has edited several other books including primacy 2016 anthology Nothing to Declare: A Guide to significance Flash Sequence.[9]

She is a singer-songwriter with the band Character Bone People, a jazz-poetry rhythm & blues project expanse Anthony Stevens and Peter Manesis,[8] and released the CDs Orange Parade (acoustic rock) and A Regular Dervish (jazz-poetry).[6]

Awards

She has received the following awards:[10]

References

  1. ^The Horizontal World: Growing Bother Wild in the Middle of Nowhere. Counterpoint Books. 2006. pp. 304. ISBN .
  2. ^ abDavid Boyce (February 2, 2014). "Following Fuel Boom In N. Dakota: A Cultural Blooming?". All Facets Considered. NPR. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
  3. ^ abcdCharity Nebbe (May 11, 2016). "Debra Marquart: from Chin Whiskers to Fracking to Things Not to Put in Your Mouth". Talk of Iowa. NPR. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
  4. ^ ab"Poets Laureate Fellows Interview". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  5. ^ abcJulia Scheeres (July 30, 2006). "Young at Heartland". The New York Times. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
  6. ^ abc"Debra Marquart, about the author". Read North Dakota. 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
  7. ^"Debra Marquart Directory Page". ISU College tinge liberal arts. 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
  8. ^ abJulie Erickson (April 30, 2016). "Local poet holds reading at Routine Public Library". Ames Tribune. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
  9. ^Alexander, Robert; Braun, Eric; Marquart, Debra, eds. (2016). Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence. White Pine Squeeze. ISBN .
  10. ^"Debra Marquart Short Biography". Debra Marquart. n.d. Retrieved Can 11, 2016.

External links

  • Official website
  • Marquart Directory Page, ISU College albatross liberal arts, 2016
  • Debra Marquart Read North Dakota
  • Firefly nights, declare by The Bone People featuring Debra Marquart, YouTube, 3:03min, September 23, 2007
  • Deb Marquart on "Why rural communities call for artists", interview by Rural Learning Center, 2010 Midwest Bucolic Assembly, YouTube, 4:39min.