Born Brothers: A Novel

Woiwode first introduced the Neumiller family in the critically acclaimed novel Beyond the Bedroom Wall. In Born Brothers he returns to this North Dakota family, focusing on the 30-year relationship between two Neumiller brothers, Charles and Jerome.

Born Brothers

Larry Woiwode

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

The scope of the poets in this collection is as broad as the landscape itself, including work by Heid E. Erdrich, Mark Vinz, Debra Marquart, Ed Bok Lee, Tim Murphy, and North Dakota's Poet Laureate, Larry Woiwode.
Some are poets descended from indigenous inhabitants of the High Plains. Others are descendants of thos who immigrated here from Germany, Russia, or the Scandinavian countries in the nineteenth century, or more recently from other parts of the country and world. They write about the historical struggles of settlement and assimilation, and more contemporary versions of those struggles in the Bakken oil patch in the western part of the state. Some write about North Dakota from the rural settings they have known and loved for a lifetime, others from the distant vantages of nostalgia or escape, and still others from the point of view of transplants coming to terms with their new home. The poets here include seasoned and emerging voices, women and men, old and young, those from the ranching and oil-flared badlands west of the Missouri, and from the flood-prone river valley farmlands of the east.
The poems in this book ache for home. They ache to be at home. In reflecting those who ache in this great expanse, these poems are about what connects us together as humans, poems that sing to each other across lines and pages and space, demonstrating that, as poet Thomas McGrath asserts in his Letter to an Imaginary Friend, North Dakota is everywhere.

North Dakota is Everywhere: An Anthology of Contemporary North Dakota Poets

Literature & Fiction

Rhoda Janzen

Aaron Poochigian

Tim Murphy

Robert King

Madelyne Camrud

Debra Marquart

Mark Vinz

Richard, Watson

Ed Bok Lee

Heidi Czerwiec

Heid E. Erdrich

Dale Jacobson

Denise Lajimodiere

Lisa Linrud-Marcis

Jamie Parsley

David R. Solheim

Poetry

North Dakota State University Press

In The Dignity of Grace, Larry Woiwode recounts the remarkable life of Sister Thomas Welder, Benedictine Sister of Annunciation Monastery and the fifth president of the University of Mary. A towering figure to North Dakotans, Sister Thomas was first Diane, a girl in whom the trace of her future influence was evident from the beginning—in her capacity for endurance amid suffering, her ease of affection and attention, her trademark magnanimity joined to her humility. Entering Annunciation Monastery in 1959 and professing her monastic vows in 1961, the life of Sister Thomas was soon entangled in the drama of the newly established Mary College, from its uncertain beginnings to its dynamic growth into America’s Leadership University. First choir director, then chair of the Humanities Division, then president for over three decades, the University of Mary’s story—and Sister Thomas’, too—can both be summed up in a phrase that marks each to the core: to lead is to serve, to serve God, and to serve one another. On her passing in June of 2020, the University of Mary remembers that Sister Thomas’s was a life that resounded with the truth that, even today, runs all through the striving and dreaming on its windswept prairie bluff – everything is grace.

The Dignity of Grace - A Life of Sister Thomas Welder

University of Mary Press

In A Legacy of Passion, Larry Woiwode unveils the stories behind the family who built one of the most successful retail companies in the country: SCHEELS, a five-generation family business. Founded by Friedrich A. Scheel as a small hardware store in western Minnesota in 1902, the life and career of each Scheel of the following generation would be gripped by the desire that first drove him: to build something extraordinary, at the service of his family and community. Unpacking the distinctive imprint of each generation’s vision on a company that transformed into one of the top sporting goods retailers in the nation, Woiwode reveals the events that sent it through the ranks, and the drive and drama of personality at their core. Rich in historical context, number-crunching, and even poetry, A Legacy of Passion shows that at the heart of a successful family business is the dynamic and unflagging energy of people who believe in the transformative power of the imagination, in the call of the unseen, and in the goodness of a career spent making life better for others.

A Legacy of Passion: The Scheel Family Story

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