Professor of English and Creative Writing Richard Zuras has had his poem “return of Lake Agassiz” accepted for publication in Nourish, a literary journal. The poem explores the horror of the Grand Forks, North Dakota Red River flood of April 1997. Zuras began a Ph.D. program at the University of North Dakota during the aftermath (1998), and has been revising this poem for years. The houses referred to in the poem were mere blocks from his house and he spent many hours walking in the valley where most of the “lost” houses remained standing.
