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

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.

2010 Read North Dakota Features Illustrated Children's Literature

2010 Read North Dakota Features S.D. Nelson's Black Elk's Vision

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