Badger Clark Publishing

02/23/2021

The Badger Clark Publishing Company works to nurture literary art coming from South Dakota and serves as a local source for folks interested in publishing, promoting, and selling their work.

12/15/2020

https://listen.sdpb.org/post/chris-vondracek-rattlesnake-summer

In The Moment … December 10, 2020 Show 958 Hour 1 Chris Vondracek is a South Dakota poet and journalist who packed his reporter's notebook and his Wall

11/26/2020

11/25/2020

Get your copy of Rattlesnake Summer: 66 Poems for 66 South Dakota Counties -> https://badgerclark.com/rattlesnake-summer

11/25/2020

Rattlesnake Summer: 66 Poems for 66 South Dakota Counties

About the Author: Christopher Vondracek reported on rattlesnakes & politicians, dinosaur lawsuits & prairie-dog infestations in South Dakota for The Rapid City Journal and Courthouse News. A former college English teacher, Vondracek holds a bachelor’s in journalism and master’s in English from the University of South Dakota, as well as a creative writing MFA from Hamline University. His writing has appeared in Cutbank, Passages North, and Structo. Raised in Wells, Minnesota, the writer took trips into the Big Sioux and Jim River country as a boy to visit family. On a summer day in 2018, Vondracek drove from the Black Hills to Yankton to marry his bride. They served kuchen and kolaches at a reception in an old brewery over the Missouri River. A culture reporter for The Washington Times, Vondracek and his wife, Carrie, hang a “Wall Drug” sign in their home on Capitol Hill.

11/25/2020