Read North Dakota

In the summer of 1995, North Dakota History: Journal of the Northern Plains published an edition featuring essays by North Dakota authors about the theme, "Language of the Land: North Dakota 's Literary Heritage." Selected articles from this edition are featured below.

Introduction to "Language of the Land"
by Janet Daley Lysengen

A Journey into Literary North Dakota
by Kathie Ryckman Anderson

Preserving Rural Cultures in the Twenty-First Century
by Richard Critchfield

Glassy-eyed Reviewers and "What is Wrong with the World"
by Lois Phillips Hudson

Language of the Land: Poetry and Commentary
by David R. Solheim

Silence as a Language of the Land
by Larry Watson

Language of the Land: Voices from the North|
by Larry Woiwode

SD Nelson Featured

SD Nelson lecture event on Oct. 21, 2010, at the Fargo Theatre.

N.D. Associate Poet Laureate and local artist publish book

This Grass, a book of poems by poet Jamie Parsley and paintings by artist Gin Templeton was recently published by Enso Press of Fargo.

Eric Sevareid Symposium

10/3/2010
Eric Sevareid was one of the earliest of a group of intellectual, analytic, and sometimes controversial newspapermen, hand-picked by Edward R. Murrow as CBS radio foreign correspondents.

Feature Author and Artist S.D. Nelson

10/21/2010
2010 Featured author and artist, S.D. Nelson, presents at the Fargo Theatre Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:00 p.m