Write Now, Here's How is a collection of forty essays that lead the reader through six decades of writing challenges. Hasselstrom, like all good teachers, knows how to encourage, invite, instruct and entertain. She finds inspiration everywhere--in a daily walk, in a claw-foot tub, and in the daily news. Reading this book is like attending one of her writing retreats.

Write Now, Here's How: Insights From Six Decades of Writing

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Hasselstrom, Linda M.

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Badger Clark was already famous when he wrote "When Hot Springs Was a Pup", likely a fund-raising project for the local Kiwanis Club in 1927. Clark extolled the virtues and foibles of his little community on the edge of the Black Hills, from its beginnings as a Lakota place of healing to its current status as a destination resort. Hot Springs, South Dakota is still a unique, thriving community, home to artists, craftspeople and the world-famous Evans Plunge.Charles Badger Clark Jr., known as Badger Clark, became the first poet laureate of South Dakota in 1937. He lived and worked in his cabin, dubbed "The Badger Hole", until his death in 1957, writing poems and humorous short stories depicting the cowboy life. Self-described as a "poet lariat", he enjoyed spinning his tales for audiences across the country, as he became a much sought-after speaker for events ranging from rural junior high and high school graduations to women's club meetings.Except for added electricity, the cabin remains as it was when Badger Clark died at age 74. In summer, volunteers show visitors how simply the poet lived, with kerosene lamps, and a storage box below the kitchen where he kept perishable food and ice when he could afford it. His boots are lined up as if he had just walked out the door, and a table holds the typewriter on which he composed poems. Above his fireplace hands a saying recalling his hospitality as well as the time he spent in Cuba. "Mi Casa Es Suya": My house is yours.Expanded edition with over 100 photographs and notes by the editors.Historian and author Peggy Sanders and author Linda M. Hasselstrom worked together to create this text to bring Badger Clark's words to a new audience. This updated and revised edition contains additional notes and commentary; a biographical sketch of Clark, "Requiem for a Cowboy Poet", by Peggy Sanders; and a timeline of Badger's life. The book provides an abundance of detail on the early days of Hot Springs, with over 100 historical photographs, maps and illustrations.

When Hot Springs Was a Pup

Humor & Entertainment

Clark, Charles Badger

Humor

Next-year country: One woman's view

Phillip, Alma

Linda M. Hasselstrom and James W. Parker, both South Dakotans, find stories everywhere in the prairies and hills. His photographs tell stories of forgotten places and lives through light, shadow, and color, creating love stories to the land.Linda's poems explore the same landscapes, finding humanity in the lands and people she knows and imagines. She can see herself walking to Decker's Market in Lusk, Wyoming, and she recognizes that corporate-created pollution in Bhopal leads husbands to divorce wives whose babies die in their wombs, but she saves a spider instead of killing it. She watches spruce trees bow like ladies, and tastes summer in the juice of a plum. Like all writers, she battles with autocorrect on her computer.Here are two poets: one with words, one with photographs, collaborating to show their love and understanding of western South Dakota, creating a book filled with compassion, humility, and gentle humor.

Walking the Changes

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Wheel of the Year: A Writer's Workbook

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Buffalo gap: A French ranch in Dakota, 1887 = La brèche aux buffles : un ranch français dans le Dakota

Mandat-Grancey, E.

Horizons: The South Dakota writers' anthology

Linda M. Hasselstrom

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