Debra Marquart Reading
About Debra Marquart:
Debra Marquart is a professor of English at Iowa State University. Her work has appeared in numerous journals such as The North American Review, Three Penny Review, New Letters, River City, Crab Orchard Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, The Sun Magazine, Southern Poetry Review, Orion, Mid-American Review and Witness.
In
the seventies and eighties, Marquart was a touring road musician with rock
and heavy metal bands. Her collection of short stories, The Hunger Bone:
Rock & Roll Stories draws from her experiences as a female road
musician. Marquart continues to perform with a jazz-poetry rhythm & blues
project, The Bone People, with whom she has released two CDs: Orange
Parade (acoustic rock); and A Regular Dervish (jazz-poetry).
Marquart’s work has received numerous awards and commendations, including the John Guyon Nonfiction Award (Crab Orchard Review), the Mid-American Review Nonfiction Award, The Headwater’s Prize from New Rivers Press, the Minnesota Voices Award, the Pearl Poetry Award (Pearl Editions), the Shelby Foote Prize for the Essay from the Faulkner Society, and a Pushcart Prize.
A performance poet, Marquart is the author of two poetry collections: Everything's a Verb and From Sweetness. Her memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, was published by Counterpoint Books in 2006, and she’s currently at work on a novel, set in Greece, titled The Olive Harvest.
What: Debra Marquart Reading
Where: Bracken Library Rm. 225
When: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 @ 7:00 p.m.
Read more about Debra Marquart on her
personal website.