Welcome to our community of talented poets.

Our community is home to a diverse group of writers who have honed their craft and produced poetry with subjects and styles that cater to a broad range of interests.

The listing below showcases some of our members’ work. You’ll find links to their publications and websites.

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.

  • info@windbreakhouse.com
    Mailing address: PO Box 169, Hermosa, SD 57744 

    Website: www.WindbreakHouse.
    Facebook: www.Facebook.com/
    Blog    : WindbreakHouse.

    Named South Dakota's Author of the Year by the SD Hall of Fame in 1989. That same year, received the Governor's Award for Distinction in Creative Achievement; and SDSPS's first Living Poet of Merit award in 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

  • Starr Paul is a Black Hills based poet from Spearfish South Dakota. She serves as the founder and co-director of the Black Hills Writers Collective, host of the Arise Online Open Mic Series, and board member of the South Dakota State Poetry Society. She holds her MFA in Poetry from Western Colorado University. Her work can be found in The Santa Fe Literary Review, Literary Matters, The Last Stanza Poetry Journal, and the Three Peaks Review. 

  • 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.

  • Marcella is a retired USD English teacher, a founder of SDSPS’s Poetry on the Road, and a Pushcart nominee. Her work has been widely published in journals and anthologies, and she is the author of four books of poetry: The Book of Crooked Prayer, The Sea is My Ugly Twin, Hysterian, and Stroke, Stroke. You can find more info about Marcella here:

    http://www.marcellaremund.com

    You can order Marcella’s books here, then click on any book to read more about it:

    https://www.finishinglinepress.com/?s=remund&post_type=product

    or find them on Amazon.

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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 an 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 a past president 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

  • Kathy (also writing as Kate Glass) is an award-winning author of speculative and historical fiction. Her poetry, written for all ages, captures the same sense of wonder that fuels her novels. A retired public school teacher and librarian, Kathy now finds her inspiration in the Black Hills.

    Her poetry collections include Let There Be Birds! (2025), Bugs in the Backyard (2023), and Rhymes from the Reef (2022; reprinted 2024).

    Find out more at Redheadswrite.com

  • Robert Harold Bordeaux is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Siċaƞġu Lak̇ot̄a), writer, activist, and board member of SDSPS from Spearfish, South Dakota. His previously published works include Lovely Seeds (Central Avenue Publishing), Quiet Remnants (self-published), a short story in the anthology Disconnected (Central Avenue Publishing) and poems in Pasque Petals. His latest collection of poems, Prairie Bones (Wiyounkihipi Productions), is out now.

    Website:

    www.robertharoldbordeaux.com