IPA’s Fall Poetry Workshop w/ Debra Marquart – Ames Writers Collective

Join the Iowa Poetry Association (IPA) at Fifth Street Writers for camaraderie, pizza and poetry! We will be gathering in-person October 18th, Saturday in Ames at the Ames Writers Collective (612 5th St). Debra Marquart will be our critic. To register, email your poem to ipa@iowapoetry.com by September 15, 2025. Visit iowapoetry.org/workshops for further details.

This workshop is FREE to IPA members ($20 for non-members which will include a 1-year IPA membership).

About Debra Marquart

Debra is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University, as well as the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program at University of Southern Maine. Marquart served as Iowa’s Poet Laureate and the Senior Editor of Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment.  The author of seven books—including The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere and Small Buried Things: Poems—Marquart has been featured on NPR and the BBC and has received over 50 grants and awards including an NEA Fellowship, a PEN USA Award, a New York Times Editors’ Choice commendation, and Elle Magazine’s Elle Lettres Award.  In 2021, Marquart was awarded a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent books are The Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays Between Exile & Belonging (2021) and a poetry collection, Gratitude with Dogs Under Stars: New & Collected Poems (2023).  For more information: debramarquart.com