The South Dakota State Poetry Society's annual contest is a longstanding institutional fixture within the state's literary landscape, and the Landscape category carries a particular charge: it asks poets to engage with the specific terrain—physical, cultural, and imagined—that constitutes South Dakota. This is not a general-purpose poetry prize but a geographically anchored call, one that presumes a relationship, however contested or ambivalent, between the poet and the place. The category's framing is deliberately expansive: poems may address geography, places, or features, and there is no restriction on length or style. The society's decision to leave form open while fixing subject is a curatorial gesture worth noting—it prioritizes the poet's angle of vision over technical conformity. What the contest offers is modest but concrete: a juried reading within a state-level literary organization, with the implicit recognition that comes from selection in a competitive field. The fee is $5.00 per entry, per category, and entrants may submit up to three poems in a single document, each poem on a separate page. The submission must be uploaded as a .doc or .docx file, and the poems themselves must be free of the author's name. A brief third-person bio and a physical mailing address serve as the cover letter. These are not arbitrary formalities; they are the conditions under which the jury reads. The society states plainly that submissions failing to follow the instructions will not be considered. The curatorial vision here is regional in the most serious sense: it treats South Dakota not as a backdrop but as a subject requiring precision, knowledge, and care. Poets working in this category are asked to make the local legible without reducing it to scenery. The contest is open to SDSPS members only, which situates it within a community of practitioners rather than a general open call. For the right poet, that context is an advantage—a readership that knows the ground being written about.