Calls for Events!  As you may or may not know, I currently reside in Rapid City. That means I don’t always know what other poetry events are happening across the state. If you have any poetry-related event that you’d like the SDSPS to promote, please submit the details and I’ll get it on the […]
What’re You Reading? Poets and poetry lovers, Hopefully you received some new books over the holiday. If not, maybe you had enough time to crack open one you’ve been meaning to get to. Maybe it wasn’t even a book, but a poem that leapt from a journal or an online archive into your
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Welcome 2016! Greetings poets and poetry lovers, Happy New Year, first of all. I wish all of you a fruitful 2016. I expect many good things out of this year. Why not? We have a new Poet Laureate to get to know. We have a state peopled with poets and readers from border to border.
Our friends at Black Hills Books are looking for submissions. Take a look at their website and consider sending them something. They are looking for more than poetry? http://blackhillsbooks.com/anthology-submissions
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Call for Archival Materials! Greetings, poetry supporters of South Dakota. As you may or may not know, the South Dakota State Poetry Society is in the process of securing archives to preserve our long, proud history of serving poetry in our great state. We are looking for any materials that you may have lying
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The 2015 South Dakota Festival of the Book is upon us. Please come out to Deadwood and check us out. We will be hosting an open-mic reading on Friday night in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Prospector Room from 7:30-9:00. Twist some arms and bring some friends to join us at our membership table. There are workshops,
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Members, we will have an Open Mic Poetry reading on June 6 at 11:30 at the Dakota Discovery Museum in Mitchell. The reading will be followed by the annual members meeting at 1 p.m. Both events will be held in the white church on the museum grounds. We need your voice and vote. I
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Poets and Poetry Lovers, We are pleased to introduce Betty L. Beer, our new SDSPS Membership Chair. Information about joining SDSPS or renewing your membership for 2015 is locatedhere. If you have questions, please email Betty at sdsps.membership@gmail.com. Thank you, also, to Sara Snelling, for her dedicated work as Membership Chair. We are sorry to
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Call for Poems The South Dakota State Poetry Society (SDSPS) seeks poems for its Spring 2015 issue of PASQUE PETALS. We do not accept previously published work. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted somewhere else. Submit up to five poems in the body of your email
Members, we will have an Open Mic Poetry reading on June 6 at 11:30 at the Dakota Discovery Museum in Mitchell. The reading will be followed by the annual members meeting at 1 p.m. Both events will be held in the white church on the museum grounds. We need your voice and vote. I mailed
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