Welcome to our community of talented poets.

Our community is home to a diverse group of writers who have honed their craft and produced unique pieces of poetry catering to various interests.

Our listing below showcases some of our member poets' work, where you will find links to their books and other publications.

If you are an SDSPS member in good standing and would like to be included in this list, please send your information to:  sdsps.membership@gmail.com.

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    Mailing address: PO Box 169, Hermosa, SD 57744 

    Website: www.WindbreakHouse.
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    South Dakota Living Poet of Merit, 2020

    Author of: 

    Walking: The Changes (poems with photographs by James W. Parker)

    Write Now, Here’s How – Insights from Six Decades of Writing (August, 2020)

    Gathering from the Grassland: A Plains Journal

    Dakota: Bones, Grass, Sky, collected and new poems

    The Wheel of the Year: A Writer's Workbook

    Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet, with Twyla M. Hansen; No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life, Between Grass and Sky, Feels Like Far, Bitter Creek Junction, Land Circle, Dakota Bones, Going Over East, Windbreak, Bison: Monarch of the Plains, When a Poet Dies, The Roadside History of South Dakota, Roadkill, Caught By One Wing.

    Editor of Leaning into the Wind, Woven on the Wind, Crazy Woman Creek with Gaydell Collier and Nancy Curtis; also editor of Journal of a Mountain Man, by James Clyman.

  • Winter Solstice, (A Memoir in Poetry)

    "The poems and vignettes in this chapbook follow a 10 year journey with my mother after her diagnosis of dementia."

    Available on Amazon and Atmosphere Press.

    Email: diana.howard@mac.com 

    Website: thecottonwoodtree.com

  • Donna Kathryn Kelly's poetry has appeared in literary journals and anthologies such as Pasque Petals, Southern Arizona Press, Oakwood, Snapdragon, Bowery Gothic, and North Dakota Quarterly. In 2022, she received an Honorable Mention in the 91st Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition (Non-Rhyming Poetry Category). Kelly is the author of The Cheney Manning Series, a collection of suspense novels about a criminal defense attorney turned amateur sleuth. The novels are available for purchase on Amazon.com .You can find out more about Kelly @donnakathrynkelly.com.

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    Bruce Roseland is the 8th Poet Laureate of South Dakota. He is a 4th generation rancher in Seneca, SD. Roseland is a Prairie Poet whose poems often reveal the sacred in relationships between the land, the life it supports and those who are its stewards. Roseland received a MA in Sociology, ‘80 from U. North Dakota. Roseland has published eight books of poetry and won four national awards, 2007 Wrangler Award for The Last Buffalo (2006), 2009, 2019 and 2022 Will Rogers Medallions for A Prairie Prayer (2008), Cowman (2018) and Heart of the Prairie (2021). His latest work is an epic poem, Earl’s Own Dakota Odyssey (2024). Roseland is President Emeritus of SDSPS and a SD Humanities Scholar.

  • "Willing Pioneer is a poignant debut collection of poetry centering around themes of love, grief, aging, adventure, spirituality and all the detours in between."

    Website:

    www.lindastarbuck.com