North Dakota's Honored PoetsNorth Dakota’s Poets Laureate
Larry Woiwode (1995–present) Lydia Jackson (1975-1982) Henry Martinson (1973-1974) Corbin Waldron (1957-1972) James W. Foley, Jr. (1874 -1939) unofficial poet laureate North Dakota Centennial Poet, 1989 David Solheim List of Poets and Their WorksBeard, Michael, translator
Professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Beard is also a translator of Middle Eastern poetry and co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures incorporating Edebiyât and the book Walking with the Wind by Abbas Kiarostami (translated from Persian and co-edited with Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, 2002). Beede, Aaron McGaffey Toward the Sun (1916) Self Sloughed-Off Person Free (1934) Bjarnason, Paul (Icelandic translator and poet) Odes and Echoes (1954) More Echoes (1963) Fleygar (1953, in Icelandic) Flisar (1964, in Icelandic) Bliss, Paul Southworth Spin Dance and Spring Comes to Shaw's Garden (Lakeside, 1934) Cirrus from the West, with wood engravings by Harold J. Mathews (Lakeside Press, 1935) The Rye is The Sea: A Book of Poems. Together with a prose account of the author’s experiences as a novice hunter and angler entitled: Hunting Begins At Forty and Fishing At Forty (The Cirrus Company, 1936). Poems of Places (The Cirrus Company, 1937). Borner, Florence Modern Poems for Modern People (1919) Camrud, Madelyn A Greener Green, A Bluer Blue (1983) This House is Filled with Cracks (1994) The Light We Go After (Dacotah Territory Press) Crow, Barbara Coming Up for Light and Air (New Rivers Press, 1995) Czerwiec, Heidi Hiking the Maze (Finishing Line Press, 2009) Dreps, Hildegarde Fried Oars in Silver Water and Other Poems (1961) Duggan, F. J., M.D. Infinity or Nature’s God (1909) Foley, James W., Jr. A Little Book of Prairie Breezes (1902) Two Outdoor Plays (1925) Songs of Schooldays (1909) Songs with Silver Linings (1910) Boys and Girls, Plains and Prairie, Life and Laughter (1911) The Verses of James W. Foley: Book of Life and Laughter (1911) Old Friends like You (1914) The Mellow Year (1921) Just for Fun Verses (1923) With Happiness to You (1928) Ford, Deborah Brush strokes: Poems (Singular Speech Press, 1990) A Kind of Heaven: Poems of Vietnam (34 poems) Heffernan, Mrs. John Poems of Home Life (1912) Henry, Gordon, Jr. His work appears in Traces in Blood, Bone and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry (2006), Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) and Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First Native American Writers (1994). Jacobson, Dale Dakota Incantations (1973) Poems for Goya’s “Disparates” (1980) Shouting at Midnight (1986) Blues for Tom McGrath (1991) Factories and Cities: A Poem in Two Parts (2003) A Walk by the River: A Long Poem (2004) Exile in My Homeland (2005) Jackson, Lydia Selected Poems (1962) Rhymes for Every Season (1943) Pardon My Gaff (1965) A Peace Garden of Verses (1967) A Trilogy Trimmed in Lace (1984, posthumously) Janzen, Rhoda Babel's Stair (2006). Julius, Kristjan Niels (1860-1936) Born in Iceland, K. N. Julius emigrated to North America in 1878 and moved to Thingvalla Township, in northeastern North Dakota about 1894. He wrote satirical light-verse, often describing the immigrant’s plight in understanding English and was well known in both Iceland and the United States. A monument to Julius near the destroyed Thingvalla Church near Mountain, North Dakota, still survives. Lowman, Bill Riders of the Leafy Spurge (1985) The Blueberry Road (1986) Walk a Mile in My Bones (1988) Lyons, Richard E. Poetry North: Five Poets of North Dakota (1970, editor) Racer and Lame (1975, editor) Scanning the Land (1980, editor) Stackers of Wheat (1951, co-authored with Prudence Sand) Men and Tin Kettles (1956) One Squeaking Straw (1958) Paintings in Taxicabs (1965) Above Time (1968) Marquart, Debra Everything’s a Verb (New Rivers Press, 1995) From Sweetness (Pearl Editions, 2001) Martinson, David Keith Bleeding the Radiator (1974) Martinson, Henry Old Trails . . . and New (1958) Funny Stories in Verse (n.d.) Marzolf, Arnold H. Faith Amid Despair in Poetry and Prayer (1966) Prairie Poems: Poetic Dreams of Prairie Themes (1974) Masters, Janelle Nelson, Rodney Good Clean Fun (1989) Norstog, Jon Yggdrasil (Christiania) (1902, in Nowegian) Piehl, Shadd His work appears in Towards Horses: Poems (Aluminum Canoe, 1999) Solheim, David On the Ward (1975) Inheritance (1987) West River: 100 Poems (1989) |
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