Wanted, original poetry, all forms (free verse, rhyming, etc.). Subject must be South Dakota persons, events, fauna, flora . . . anything that lived or happened in South Dakota. Preference will be given to authors who reside in South Dakota or have at least travelled into South Dakota. If selected, your poem will appear in a written anthology provisionally entitled Our South Dakota – Anthology of Poems.

Please submit up to three poems per author. Only original work will be considered. Poems may have been previously published, but if they were, please include where they were published and when. Poems containing lines longer that 60 characters (letters, punctuation, and spaces) will NOT be considered. Poems published in South Dakota in Poems (2020) will NOT be considered. 

To have your poems considered:

     Submit up to 3 poems April 1 – August 1, 2025.

     Submit them via email to editor@scurfpeapublishing.com.

     Make certain your email subject line says: “SD Anthology”.

     Include your name on each poem.

     Underline the title of each poem.

     Include a maximum-5-sentence statement of your connection to South Dakota.

Who the editors are:

     Bruce Roseland, Poet Laureate of South Dakota (2023 – 2027) and 

     Steve Boint, owner of Scurfpea Publishing, Sioux Falls, SD, are co-editors of this anthology. 

Editorial statement:

     “Tell me the what, tell me the why, tell me about a day, event or person in your South Dakota      

       life. All that is blessed, all that is struggle, tell me your heart.” – Bruce Roseland

Authors retain copyright of their poems, granting Bruce Roseland and Steve Boint permission ONLY to publish the authors’ poems in this anthology.

We are currently unable to provide either payment for the use of poems or free author copies.

Submission of poems is considered agreement to these conditions and the author’s warrant that the submitted poems are original with them and do not libel any individual or infringe on any individual’s copyrights and to take upon themselves all financial and legal responsibilities arising from claims against the poems they have submitted.