“Because we

are each a word in a great conversation,

and the word

is good.”

from the poem,

In the Great Conversation

by Margaret Hasse

Margaret Hasse is a poet, teacher, and writing mentor. She's also been a national consultant to arts organizations.

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Belongings, Margaret’s ninth book of poetry, published by Nodin Press and released in October 2024, offers thirty-one new poems as well as those selected from her previous eight books: Stars Above, Stars Below (1984), In a Sheep’s Eye, Darling (1988), Milk and Tides (2008), Earth’s Appetite (2013), Between Us (2016), Shelter (2020), Summoned (2021) and The Call of Glacier Park (2022).

In the introduction to Belongings, Twin Cities poet Jim Moore writes, “The central question is not what belongs to her, but what and who does she belong to, beginning with family. Over decades, what ‘family’ constitutes shifts and develops in the poems: from parents and siblings to husband and children and the larger sense of family represented by connections with friends, pets, gardens, the earth itself.”