Margaret’s other poetry books are Shelter,a collaboration with Sharon DeMark; Between Us; Earth’s Appetite; Milk and Tides; In a Sheep’s Eye, Darling; and Stars Above, Stars Below. In addition, she co-edited Rocked by the Waters with Athena Kildegaard and edited A Little Book of Abundance, a chapbook with poems of gratitude by eleven poets.
The books have been prizewinners and bestsellers. Margaret is 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.
Summoned, Hasse’s sixth full-length collection of poetry, was launched at Rain Taxi's Book Festival in October 2021. It's title comes from a sign at the Floyd Memorial: "All mothers were summoned when George Floyd called out for his." Her writing has been described by reviewers as lyrical and grounded, often based in narrative that finds radiance, meaning and sometimes humor in everyday experience. A suite of poems within the book entitled “Another Day of Being White” concerns current American strife, inequities, and division, and how we are all called to be better human beings.
Finishing Line Press brought out a chapbook, “The Call of Glacier Park,” in June 2022 with 26 poems that honor Glacier Park and Margaret's family connection to that beautiful wilderness. Order on-line here.
Books & Poems
Belongings, published in 2024, is Margaret’s ninth book, a gathering of her new and selected poems. In his introduction to the book, Jim Moore writes “In [Hasse’s] work, moments of sudden realization feel like little Zen koans. They are also gifts, the kinds of gifts that only come because the poet has made a lifelong practice of paying attention, not only to the world inside her and her own past, but also to the world around her.