Margaret Hasse and Athena Kildegaard with Milkweed Books

Join Milkweed Books and Nodin Press in celebrating Rocked by the Waters, an anthology of poems on motherhood co-edited by Margaret Hasse and Athena Kildegaard.

Saturday, March 28 | 7:00 p.m.
Target Performance Hall | Open Book, 2nd Floor
1011 Washington Ave, Minneapolis, 55415
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Margaret Hasse is the author of five books of poems: Stars Above, Stars Below (1985); In a Sheep’s Eye, Darling (1993); Milk and Tides (2008); Earth’s Appetite (2013); and Between Us (2016). She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, McKnight Foundation, Loft Literary Center’s Career Initiative Program, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Jerome Foundation. Hasse leads poetry workshops, mentors writers, and edits manuscripts, emcees a poetry reading series and welcomes opportunities to read, perform, and make presentations about her poetry, as well as to support and collaborate with artists and arts organizations. Her work has been published in anthologies (such as Where One Voice Ends, Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry, and To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women’s Voices from Pre-Territorial Day to the Present), magazines, broadsides, and unusual places such as sidewalks, public art, and in Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. She lives in Minnesota.

Athena Kildegaard lives in prairie pothole country — that is, Morris, Minnesota — where she’s a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. Here are a few things she’s done: cleaned creamed corn machines; nursed two beautiful children; eaten fresh pineapple; listened to her husband play banjo; worked as a resident artist in Minnesota, Mississippi, and Texas; taught 6th grade, high school English, and at the college level freshman composition, creative writing, environmental ethics; read War and Peace three times; received grants from the Lake Region Arts Council and the Minnesota State Arts Board; received the 2011 LRAC/McKnight Fellowship.