When the first South Dakota Festival of Books was held in Deadwood October 3-5, 2003, my attention was caught by articles in the newspapers that tried to explain the concept. I did not attend that first Festival, even though I had written poems in my school days. I was still too caught up in the […]
SD Poets You Should Know: Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Christine Stewart-Nuñez, an associate professor of English at South Dakota State, writes poems that are often narrative and often about her family, including the death of her sister (in Keeping Them Alive) and her own experience as a mother of a child with special needs (in the forthcoming Bluewords Greening). Her poems always pay close […]
Developing Imagery in Poetry
As Jane Hirshfield writes in Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, “Images…are forms that let us inhabit abstraction as if from within, and so begin to know our kinship with the wide field of being.” I love that sentence although I admit, I need to ponder it a bit each time I read it. […]
SD Poets You Should Know: Marcella Remund
Marcella Remund, who lives in Vermillion and teaches at USD, has been writing poems for years but only recently begun publishing. Drawing on rich religious and cultural tradition, her poems are concerned with language, feminism, and emotion. Here’s a poem of hers from the online journal Stirring, from Sundress Publications: RELIC I keep this shard […]
SD Poets You Should Know: Bruce Roseland
Many people admit to thinking of only cowboy poetry when considering poetry from South Dakota, so I’ve focused on many non-cowboy poets so far; I’ve also been doing them in alphabetical order, so it’s taken a while to get to my very favorite cowboy poet, Bruce Roseland. I worry about that adjective being too limiting, […]
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