"In my selection and arrangement of this anthology’s poems, I have composed a capacious conversation among South Dakota and South Dakota-affiliated poets that speaks to our complex stories and experiences. Personal, political, historical, contemporary: this conversation in verse reflects the diverse lives of people who live here or have strong residential ties to the state. Bruce Roseland, long-time president of the South Dakota State Poetry Society, once told me he wanted to see poets “write South Dakota,” and I offer this conversation as one of many that could be fashioned from the rich work happening here in the last decade."
Editor of South Dakota in Poems
"In my selection and arrangement of this anthology’s poems, I have composed a capacious conversation among South Dakota and South Dakota-affiliated poets that speaks to our complex stories and experiences. Personal, political, historical, contemporary: this conversation in verse reflects the diverse lives of people who live here or have strong residential ties to the state. Bruce Roseland, long-time president of the South Dakota State Poetry Society, once told me he wanted to see poets “write South Dakota,” and I offer this conversation as one of many that could be fashioned from the rich work happening here in the last decade."
Editor of South Dakota in Poems