Poetry from Studio 47 is a weekly radio broadcast that airs on NPR affiliate, South Dakota Public Broadcasting. The show highlights poetry from the Midwest, the Great Plains, and beyond. Each episode—which is hosted and curated by Patrick Hicks —is roughly five minutes long and features poets who ar…
American poet and essayist, Barton Sutter, and his poem, “Louise”
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"