NDSU PRESS PARTY

 Yesterday we had the pleasure of attending another of what has become an annual affair, the NDSU Press Party. Authors whom they have published during the year come in to read from and talk about their work. We bought two books of poetry written by onetime North Dakota  poets. The author of one, Debra Marquardt originally from Napoleon, ND, lives and teaches at Iowa State University and serves as that state’s poet laureate. David R. Solheim, an associate poet laureate of North Dakota, spent thirty years as an English professor at Dickinson State University. Given the opportunity, there’s a good chance we’ll attend again next year. They serve a nice lunch, too. An extra bonus for us as we left was hearing the church bells of the Newman Center ringing a block away. We’d been wanting to attend a service at this new church anyway, so now this morning I can take it easy while Mary is making pancakes with our Cracker Barrel flour. Pix show Marquart with Mary, fellow Germans from Russia, and David Solheim.