Oakwood is an annual literature and arts magazine published at South Dakota State University since 1975. SDSU students edit the journal, led by faculty advisors. Accepting diverse forms of literature and art, Oakwood is published during the spring of each year. We distribute handsomely printed hard copies to contributors, the campus community, and other interested parties, and shortly thereafter make this digital version available worldwide via SDSU’s Open PRAIRIE Repository.
Current Issue: Volume 5, Issue 1 (2023) Oakwood
Full Issue
Front Matter
Acknowledgements, Staff, and Table of Contents
Oakwood Staff
Fiction
The Good-Girl House
Erin Flanagan
Ghost Town
Arystan Jurgens
Nightmares of the Lakota
Dallas Kelso
One, Just One
Wynn Sandman
Death is a Final Peace
Abigail Muller
Modern Vampire
Jordan Heisler
An Excerpt from Dog on Fire
Terese Svoboda
The Recital
Edward Voeller
The King’s Birthday
David Larsen
It’s Kind of a Weird Story
Haley Winiarski
Poetry
"Fulcrum", "Whisperer", and "Vixen Song"
B.J. Buckley
"Circuit Breaker", "Tipped Past Equinox", "Touched by Arctic Air the World Turns White", "Sudden Open", and "Garden Unguarded"
Barandon Krieg
"Pastoral", "Spanish Girls", and "Paupers in the Rain"
Steven R. Vogel
Nine Years Old
Laurence Snydal
"The Lesson", "Judge/Judge Not", and "Turning a Page"
Bruce Roseland
"To Wait" , and "Relinquishment"
Aaron Cloyd
A Fan in the Stands Makes His Wishes Known
John S. Nelson
"Descended from Refugees", and "Strolling Downhill with Sisyphus"
Rosemary Dunn Moeller
"Earthly Home" , "To Put My Finger on It", "The Robin’s Wife" , and "The Old Woman in a Time of Aggression"
Sharon Chmielarz
a nightmare a dream and someone else’s memories
Storm Ainsely
Birth, War, Now
Susan D. Bassett
Open Graves
Grace Lundeen
"The Red Shoe, and "Holocaust"
Saige Anderson
Riverside Avenue
Cole W. Williams
"Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis, Circa 1990", "The Hole", "The Trapping Web", and "The Final Cut"
Benjamin D. Carson
Reverberations
D.A. Hickman
"The Photograph Album", and "Sin Line"
Noreen Oesterlein
"Need". "Reckoning", and "Spring Thaw"
Cheyenne Marco
"Of the Seven Deadly Sins", "I Am", "When it Comes to Finding Words to Say", "What If", and "The Evolution of Zebra Stripes"
David Allan Evans
A Year’s Turning
Ruth Harper
"Grandma", and "Foxglove in Late September"
Kristin Gifford
Things the Internet Has Ruined (Gift-Giving)
Donna Kathryn Kelly
Then and Now: Freya Manfred
Freya Manfred
Interview
Contributor Note
Contributor Notes
Oakwood Staff
Rights Statement
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Rights revert to authors and artists upon publication.
