October 21..Join us for an evening of Poetry

Mark your calendar for April 22, our Spring Poetry Event

Be sure to put April 22, 2011 in your calendar.  That is the date for our Spring Poetry event.  Join us at the Rapid City Public library for a poetry reading by local poets as well as the awards ceremony for the 2011 High Plains Writers Poetry contest.

This will be the 10th  annual High Plains Writers Juried Poetry contest.  Watch this space for  the call for submissions which will include all of the rules as well as the deadlines for the contest.

Winners from 2010 Juried Poetry Awards

1st prize: Prairie Dark by Marcella Remund
2nd prize: Racing for the cure by Janice Mikesell
3rd prize: Eve’s beatitude by Eric Lochridge
Honorable Mention: Gertrude Johnson
Honorable Mention: Aisle twelve: a tale of grocery store romance by Jacob Herrmann

Video presentations will be coming shortly on HPW's youTube site.

Hello all, High Plains Writers and the Rapid City Public Library will host a winter poetry reading this year. The Dark of Winter Poet's Gathering will be January 22 at 7 pm at the Rapid City Public Library. Please contact the Reference desk to sign up to participate in this reading.  We have had many requests for a third reading for the year so we hope that there will be much interest in this event.