Poetry from Studio 47

Tina Chang and "Milk"

American poet, Anne Pierson Wiese, and “Lincoln Elementary School”

American poet, John Engman and "Mushroom Clouds"

American poet and novelist, Jane Yolen and “Majdanek: Winter 1941-1942”

American poet and essayist, Kathleen Norris

American poet, Sharon Chmielarz, and "New Water"

British poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and "Kubla Khan"

Legendary drummer, lyricist, and author, Neil Peart, of Rush. "The Garden" is featured on our 100th episode.

Lakota poet, educator, musician, and writer, Zitkala-Ša and "“The Red Man’s America”

British novelist, Rudyard Kipling, and his poem, "If"

British poet, Andrew Marvell, and "To His Coy Mistress"

American poet and writer, Christopher Vondracek, and “Hanging Out in the Deadwood Library during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally”

American novelist and poet, Steven Wingate, and “Octet for my Future South Dakota Selves”

Korean-American poet, Su Hwang and “Show Me Where it Hurts”

American poet and essayist, Dana Gioia and "The Next Poem"

Korean-American poet, Ed Bok Lee and "Poetry is a Sickness"

American poet and essayist, Heid Erdrich and "Stung"

American poet, Richard Robbins and “Old Country Portraits”

American poet, writer, and editor, JD Schraffenberger and “Brother Tom Smoking Too Much”

Irish poet, Seamus Heaney and "Digging"

American poet, Athena Kildegaard, and “Brothers at the Reunion”

American poet and writer, Stephen Powers and “Drive My Urn to Dollywood”

American poet and author Bill Meissner; “A Little Something About the World’s Largest Ball of Twine”

American poet, painter, and writer Clarence Major  "Mt Rushmore"

Chinese-American poet, Marilyn Chin, and "Get Rid of the X"

American poet, Richard Terrill and “10:00 A.M, Papa’s Café, New Hope, Minnesota”

Three poems from Christine Stewart-Nunez's anthology, South Dakota in Poems

American poet, Walt Whitman, and "To the States”

American poet, Jamie Sullivan, and "Social Contract"

American poet, Camille T Dungy and “This’ll Hurt Me More”

Irish poet, W.B. Yeats and "The Second Coming"

American poet, Maryann Corbett and “State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day”

Irish poet and essayist, Eamonn Wall and “Brewery-Millwheel-River Folly”

American poet and activist, Carolyn Forché, and her poem, "The Colonel"

British Romantic poet, William Wordsworth and "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"

British Victorian poet and novelist, Lewis Carroll and "Jabberwocky"

American poet Mary Swander and her poem, "Letter"

American poet Patricia Smith and "10-Year-Old Shot Three Times, but She’s Fine"

American poet, Sean Hill, and "A Photograph Taken in Duluth"

William Shakespeare and "Sonnet 130"

American poet, Louis Jenkins and "Football"

American poet, Emily Dickinson and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

Irish poet and theologian, Pádraig Ó Tuama, and his poem "Enjoy Your Pint"

American poet, Sandy Longhorn and "Jack & Diane, Rearview Mirror”

American poet and memoir writer, Freya Manfred “When My Dead Father Visits”

French-American poet and actress, Hélène Cardona, and "The Sexiest Flower"

American poet and novelist, Joe Wilkins, and his prose poem, "Say"

American poet and novelist, Jill Alexander Essbaum and her poem "Bad Friday"

English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the opening of "The Canterbury Tales"

Korean American poet and essayists, Sun Yung Shin "Orphans of Skynet"

American poet and Vietnam War veteran, Yusef Komunyakaa "A Break from the Bush"

American poet, essayist, and poet laureate of Iowa, Debra Marquart

American poet, Barbara Crooker, and "Book of Kells"

Poet and essayist Bill Holm and "American News"

Three grade school poets from Stillwater, Minnesota

British Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley and "Ozymandias"

Scottish poet, Robert Burns, also known as Robbie Burns. "Address to a Haggis"

American poet and short story writer, Edgar Allan Poe and "Annabel Lee"

American poet, Tony Hoagland, "Dickhead"

American poet, Sara Henning "Through a Glass Darkly"

Clement Clarke Moore and "Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Minnesota poet, Ryan Vine and his work, "KFC" published by Salmon Poetry

Native American poet, Adrian C Louis and his poem about Pine Ridge

Northern Irish poet, Sinéad Morrissey 

American poet, David Wojahn, and "The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987"

American poet and essayist, Carl Sandburg and his poem, "Chicago"

Anglo-French poet, Pascale Petit and her poem, "The Magma Room"

American poet, Todd Boss, and "The Mind Will Wander"

American poet and poetry editor of Briar Cliff Review, Jeanne Emmons

American poet, Jehanne Dubrow and "Chernobyl Year"

American poet and educator, Carl Dennis, and his poem "The God Who Loves You"

Lakota poet and teacher, Lydia Whirlwind Soldier

Cowboy poet and rancher, Bruce Roseland and "Moonshine"

Patrick Hicks reads poems from three of his undergraduate students at Augustana University: Jessica Ruf, Erica Dorsett, and Camryn Hay

American poet, "Charles Harper Webb" and his poem by the same name

American poet and essayist, Heidi Czerwiec, and her poem "Djedi"

Irish-American poet, Patrick Hicks; "Watching M*A*S*H" and "The Road Crew"

American poet, William Stafford; "Traveling Through the Dark"

African-American poet, Jean Toomer, and his work "Reapers"

American poet, Eleanor Wilner, "High Noon at Los Alamos"

Vietnamese-American writer, poet, and spoken word artist. "Frank's Nursery and Crafts"

"The Tyger" William Blake, English poet, Romantic

Poet and Essayist, Bruce Wiegl; author of Song of Napalm

Poet and author, Victoria Chang with "Eva Braun at Berchtesgaden" 

Original poems from South Dakota high school students

Poet and Essayist, Jim Reese, author of Bone Chalk and Really Happy

Irish novelist, James Joyce, author of Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake

Barbara Duffey, NEA Fellowship winner and author of Simple Machines

South Dakota poet laureate, editor of South Dakota Review, poet and essayist, Lee Ann Roripaugh. "Octopus in the Freezer"

Poet laureate of South Dakota (2019-2023), professor at South Dakota State University, and author of various collections.

"My California" by Korean-American poet, Lee Herrick

Poet and writer, Ilyse Kusnetz "The Mellified Man": author of Small Hours and Angel Bones

Known as the "hardest working man in literature", this is Kwame Dawes, who recently won the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry 

Minnesota poet laureate

Former national poet laureate

Korean-American poet and essayist

"Dulce et Decorum Est" and the Great War of 1914-1918

Winner of the American Book Award and Director of The Poetry Center in Paterson, New Jersey

South Dakota rancher and poet