A new edition of Stars Above, Stars Below, Margaret’s first book with an Introduction by Athena Kildegaard, has been reissued by Nodin Press.
Upcoming Events
January 5, Sunday, 2025, 2:00: Literary Bridges New Year’s Reading, Next Chapter Booksellers
38 South Snelling Ave., St. Paul. Goodbye to current host/curators Jeanne Lutz and Stan Kusunoki, welcome new host Micah Ruelle! Also featuring Stan's former co-host, Donna Isaac, plus Margaret Hasse, Sharon Chmielarz, Mary Jo Thompson and Claudia Daly. Stan will bring his guitar for a musical interlude!
News
A short interview with Margaret from 2023 Twin Cities Book Festival is featured on The Slow Down podcast with Major Jackson, January 24, 2024: https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2024/01/24/1048-you-the-donkey-cart
Finishing Line Press has 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.
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.
About the book, polar explorer Will Steger writes: "I visited Glacier Park in 1955, saw my first glacier, and have chased that inspiration ever since. Margaret Hasse's beautiful collection portrays that indescribable presence with poems that are vivid and alive."
Margaret's poem "Norwegian Grandmother's Song" appeared on The Writers Almanac on Friday, December 3: here
Previous Events
December 17, Tuesday, 2024, 7:30 p.m.: Readings by Writers at the University Club of St. Paul, 420 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55102, with Margaret Hasse, Laurie Hertzel, Peter Geye, and Heid E. Erdrich. Hosted by Tim Nolan.
November 7, Thursday, 7:00 PM CST: Poetry Night at Magers & Quinn Booksellers with Margaret Hasse reading from her new poetry book, “Belongings” and Joyce Sutphen reading from her new poetry book, “Home Words,” 3038 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55408.
October 25, 2024, Friday, 7:00-9:00 PM CDT: Margaret Hasse’s 9th book of poetry, Belongings: New & Selected poems was released at an event hosted by Nodin Press at Unity Church-Unitarian, 732 Holly Ave., St. Paul. Arleta Little, Executive Director of The Loft introduced Margaret. John Hasse performed a piano piece. Free and open to the public. Refreshments and book-signing followed the reading.
August 8, 2024, Thursday, 7:30-8:30PM CDT: Midstream Reading Series at Unity Church-Unitarian, 732 Holly Avenue, St. Paul, with Margaret Hasse joining Dylan Loring, Brian Satrom, and Joyce Sutphen who will perform their own work, and hosted by Richard Terrill.
Saturday, June 29, 2024 2 pm, 4th Annual Poetry and Jazz in the Holy Ground at the historic Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery in south Minneapolis, Lake and Cedar. Featured poets include Margaret Hasse, Patrick Cabello Hansel and Dralandra Larkins, plus readers from a new poetry anthology about ancesters. A hands-on lantern making workshop will be led by local artists.
https://www.facebook.com/events/455625590498526/
Tuesday May 21, 2024, Tuesday, 7:30 P.M. READINGS BY WRITERS hosted by Tim Nolan at University Club of St. Pau,l420 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55102. A celebration of heron poems from Minnesota poets in “Broad Wings Long Legs: A Rookery of Heron Poems Minnesota Writers Contemplate a Regional Icon” edited by James Silas Rogers. Jim Rogers Tim Nolan and contributors Jane Dickerson, Mary Moore Easter, Margaret Hasse, Janna Knittel, Jeanne Lutz, John Minczeski, Joel Van Valin, Connie Wanek, and Cary Waterman will read from the book which will be available for sale by Next Chapter Books.
May 5, 2024, 6 - 8 pm, “Speaking Our Peace,” with readings by Margaret Hasse, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Mary Christine Kane, and Satish P. Jayaraj, Ginko Coffee Shop, 721 Snelling Ave., St. Paul. Light refreshments. Free, with a suggested donation of $20 to support Peacemaker Minnesota’s mission.
April 20, 2024, 7 – 9pm / Ages 13+, Poetry Night: For the Beauty of the Earth: Come celebrate spring at ArtScraps (1459 St ClairSt Paul MN 55105) with an evening of art, poetry, and light refreshments. Curated by Patrick Cabello Hansel, author of The Devouring Land and Quitting Time. Featuring readings by Marion Gomez, Margaret Hasse, and Bart Galle. Free, but registration here is required.
January 9, 2024, Tuesday, 7:00 PM, A Reading for the New Year, with Ed Bok Lee and Margaret Hasse, Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Avenue, Mpls., MN. that advertises: Start your year off with beauty and community! A poetry reading celebrating the new year: contemplative darkness, intention and beauty, and of course the promise of renewal. https://www.magersandquinn.com/event/New-Year%27s-Poetry-Reading/273
April 18, 2023 Tuesday, 7:30 PM: Margaret Hasse, along with other Nodin Press poets, reads a poem as part of a 90th birthday celebration of Norton Stillman, Nodin Press publisher. University Club of St. Paul, 420 Summit Avenue, St. Paul.
April 8, Saturday, 2023,1:00 PM: Margaret Hasse, along with poets Joyce Sutphen, Freya Manfred, and Tish Jones, read poems inspired by Tressa Sularz, basket maker and fiber artist, at the opening of “A Soul-Weaver’s Journey,” which is a retrospective look at 40 years of her work. at Homewood Studios, 2400 Plymouth Ave. N., Minneapolis, MN.
January 21, Saturday, 7:00-9:00PM: Cheap Theatre presents “Light” with performers/presenters Margaret Hasse, Mark Ehling, Richard Rousseau, Tom Cassidy, Erica Christ and a surprise light-hearted guest. Black Forest Inn, Festsaal banquet space, 9 East 26th St. Minneapolis
*Note earlier show time; Black Forest closes at 9; Door opens at 6:30; show at 7:00. $10 from any presenter or at the door
November 12, 2022, Saturday, 1:00 - 3:00PM, CST: Basilica of St. Mary’s in Minneapolis (1600 Hennepin Ave, 55403)is hosting Margaret Hasse to lead a journaling workshop for people to practice writing to themselves in order to remember.
October 20, 2022, Thursday, 7:00PM CDT: Launch party for Volume 13 of Saint Paul Almanac, A Path to Each Other, at the Securian Club located at the Saints Baseball Field, 360 N. Broadway St, Saint Paul. Music, refreshments, a program with brief readings, including by Margaret Hasse, beginning at 7:45. Free and open to the public.
October 15, 2022, Saturday, between 10AM-5:00PM: Margaret Hasse at Rain Taxi's Festival of the Book, MN State Fairgrounds as part of Minnesota Writers Mashup with a brief presentation about her 2022 book, "The Call of Glacier Park."
October 13, 2022, Thursday, 7:30-8:30PM CDT: Midstream Reading Series at Unity Church-Unitarian, 732 Holly Avenue, St. Paul, with Margaret Hasse reading from "The Call of Glacier Park" and other poems, joining three other writers who perform their own work.
October 5, 2022, Wednesday, 7:00-8:00PM CDT: St. Paul's Subtext Bookstore sponsors a virtual free reading by poet Margaret Hasse to launch "The Call of Glacier Park," joined in conversation by Margaret Notley of the Glacier National Park Conservancy. Register for this free event at https://subtextbooks.com
October 1, 2022, Saturday, 1:00PM CDT: Tributary Reading Series hosted by Ted King, MCN6 Studios, 1229, 2nd St. N.E., Minneapolis, poet Margaret Hasse with Chris Title and Michael Kleber-Diggs, $5 admission.
June 24, 2022, Friday, 7-9:00pm, Margaret reads with poets Becky Fremo and Athena Kildegaard at the 6th annual Wordplay, a gathering of readers and writers at Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter. MN. Location: Melva Land Interpretive Center Gustavus Arboretum. Stay for Saturday with presentations from 10am -5 pm. All events are free, with donations accepted. Everyone who attends is invited to a picnic buffet at the home of Dave Solheim, one of the organizers.
May 24, 2022, Tuesday, 6:00pm, Next Chapter Bookstore | 38 Snelling Ave. S. | St. Paul with Margaret Hasse and Jim Moore reading from their latest books, Summoned and Prognosis respectively. https://www.nextchapterbooksellers.com/event/margaret-hasse-and-jim-moore-present-their-books-poetry-summoned-and-prognosis
May 12, 2022, Thursday, 7-8:30 PM, CST, Poetry Night at Content Bookstore, 314 Division St. S., Northfield, MN 55057, with Margaret Hasse, introduced by poet Rob Hardy, reading from her latest books, Summoned and Shelter, followed by discussion. Join live @ContentBookstore Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/231519562513340
May 11, 2022, Wednesday, 7:00-8:00 PM, "How Poetry Calls Us to Our Deeper Selves" sponsored by Wisdom Ways, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN. Margaret Hasse reads and discusses poems from her latest book, Summoned. The event is offered on-line and in-person. Registration is required here
May 10, 2022, Tuesday, 7PM, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN: Editor and Poet James Crews
introduces The Path to Kindness, a national anthology of poems, with local poets Margaret Hasse, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Joyce Sutphen, and Connie Wanek. To register for this free event:
https://www.magersandquinn.com/event/James-Crews-presents-the-Path-to-Kindness/72
April 2, 2022, Saturday, 9:30 -11 AM, Margaret Hasse leads a journaling workshop in a series called Platter of Wellness: Finding Focus: The Healthy Mind | The Basilica of Saint Mary | 88 North 17th Street | Minneapolis, MN 55403. More information and registration here.
March 6, 2022, Sunday: 2:00-3:30 PM, Next Chapter Bookstore | 38 Snelling Ave. S. | St. Paul. Literary Bridges presents "Honoring Ethna," a reading in memory of poet Ethna McKiernan, with Margaret Hasse, Sharon Chmielarz, Carolyn Holbrook, Jim Rogers, Carol Masters, Pat Barone, Tracy Youngblom, and Joel Van Valin with host Donna Isaac. Music by Don and Sherry Ladig. Donations collected for Habitat for Humanity, Twin Cities, and/or People Inc. Homeless Services in honor of Ethna's work with the homeless. Masks and COVID vaccination required
December 9, 2021, Thursday, 7:30pm – Midstream Reading Series, with Margaret Hasse, Ed Bok Lee, Kate MacLam, and Michael Walsh, hosted by Richard Terrill.
December 5, 2021, Sunday, 2:00pm – Benefit in-person poetry reading and art sale from Shelter to support Project Home of St. Paul's Interfaith Council. Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 700 Snelling Avenue S., St. Paul.
November 17, 2021, Wednesday, 7pm - Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Margaret reads with Sharon Chmielarz, in person. Visit https://magersandquinn.com
November 10, 2021, Wednesday, 7pm - Subtext Books, Margaret reads with Michael Kleber-Diggs, virtually on Crowdcast.https://www.crowdcast.io/e/hassekleberdiggs/register
October 16, 2021, Saturday, 10am – Margaret gave a reading of her new book, Summoned, at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, Fine Arts Center, as part of Rain Taxi's Twin Cities Book Festival.https://twincitiesbookfestival.com/author-stage-events/
October 4, 2021, Monday, 2022, 7 PM EST 2021: Margaret presented a program about her poetry book Shelter (with visual images by Sharon DeMark) and open a discussion to ways that the pandemic affected individuals and communities as a live and Zoomed event in Ludington, Michigan sponsored by the local library and Abondia, a nonprofit organization. http://www.masoncounty.lib.mi.us/shifting-landscapes/
September 12, 2021, Sunday, 2:00 PM: Literary Bridges, a new series made from a merger between Literary Lights and Bridges, held its inaugural program at Next Chapter Bookstore, 38 S. Snelling Ave., with Anthony Ceballlos, Michael Dean, Isadora Gruye, Margaret Hasse, Carolyn Holbrook, Hawana Sullivan Janzen, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Janna Knittel, Jeanne Lutz, Carol Masters, Ardie Medina, David Mura, Rosie Peters, Lia Rivamonte, and Mary Jo Thompson.
Listen to Garrison Keillor reading Margaret's poem “Belongings” on The Writers Almanac on Monday, Oct 26: here
Listen to Garrison Keillor reading Margaret's poem “What the Window Washers Did” on The Writers Almanac on Saturday, October 24th. here
August 31, 2021, Tuesday, 6:00 PM: Magers & Quinn Booksellers hosted Fall Events Kickoff, a meet-and-greet open house with a dozen local authors, including Margaret Hasse, to celebrate return to in-person events. magersandquinn.com
July 11, 2021, Sunday, 2:00 PM: Margaret Hasse read poems from Shelter at Aesthetic Home, a beautiful home furnishing store at 541 Selby Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55102.
June 16, 2021, Wed. 7-8:30 PM, CST: Connections Between Writing & Art with poets Margaret Hasse and Janée J. Baugher and visual artists Margaret Lockwood and Ginnie Cappaert, sponsored by Write On, Door County. The poets received the Dick Scuglik Memorial Residency and Scholarship for ekphrastic writing, and each were paired with one of the artists from Door County. The event was a hybrid virtual and in person reading, display, and conversation.
May 05, 2021, Wednesday, 7:00 - 8:00 PM: "Rocked by the Waters: poems of motherhood" reading with poets and co-editors Margaret Hasse and Athena Kildegaard This virtual event hosted by SubText Bookstore in Saint Paul, MN
December 3, 2020, Thursday, 7-8:30 p.m.: From the Beginning: A Virtual Reading sponsored by The Loft Literary Center: Jim Moore, Michael Dennis Browne, and Margaret Hasse.
As instructors, featured artists, founders, board members (and a combination of all those things), Michael Dennis Browne, Jim Moore and Margaret Hasse are also established and respected writers in their field. The program began with short readings by Jim Moore and Michael Dennis Browne, with a slightly longer reading to close out the night by Margaret Hasse to celebrate the release of her new collection, Shelter. Plus, bring your questions for a short Q & A at the end.
December 10, 2020, Thursday, 7:00 P.M.: Next Chapter Booksellers invites you to a virtual event on Emily Dickinson’s birthday when four poets read from their recent Nodin Press books: Emilio DeGrazia - What Trees Know, Norita Dittberner-Jax - Now I Live Among Old Trees, Mary Moore Easter - From the Flutes of Our Bones and Margaret Hasse - Shelter.
October 8, 2020, Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Midstream Reading Series with Margaret Hasse reading from Shelter and other collections with Ronald j. Palmer, Jonee Kulman Brigham, and Richard Terrill reading their poems. Host: Roslye Ultan.
Listen to Garrison Keillor reading Margaret's poem "At the Tea Garden" on The Writer's Almanac on Thursday, October 7, 2020, here.
October 6, 2020, Watch the virtual Launch Event for Shelter sponsored by SubText Books. Watch Hasse and DeMark at the launch that was held on October 6 2020. with reading, conversation, and audience Q&A here.
November 20, 2019, Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. Margaret Hasse and Donna Isaac, read at Tillie's Farmhouse, 232 Cleveland Ave., St. Paul, MN.
Listen to Garrison Keillor reading Margaret's poem "On the Captivity of Babies" on The Writer's Almanac, Sunday, November 10, 2019.here
Margaret Hasse’s poems, featured this week on Poetry Sunday for Women’s Voices for Change, tell stories by means of juicy, living images that, like the best writing, carry within them an abundance of heart. A young boy enacting a modern, midwestern version of “On Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” a girl discovering the joys of adolescent defiance and independence, and a mother claiming and marking her child with animal intensity—these are wonderful, visceral poems showing a high level of craft, https://womensvoicesforchange.org/radiance-truant-and-marking-him-by-margaret-hasse.htm
Margaret has two poems in the 2019 edition of Saint Paul Almanac. With Athena Kildegaard, she is editing a collection of poems by women on motherhood experiences.
Margaret Hasse was honored to be selected to present her work at the annual Pankake Poetry Reading sponsored by the University of Minnesota libraries. The event, which took place at the Anderson Library on April 11, 2018 and drew 150 people, is named for Marcia Pankake, a former librarian who fostered poetry programming on campus. Hasse created a unique retrospective by showing cover images and reading poems from each of her five poetry collections. To coincide with the reading, Nodin Press reissued her first book, Stars Above, Stars Below, with some new features. Here are photos and the video of the event.
Common Good Books announced the winners of its 2018 annual poetry contest that included Hasse’s “Night on the Town.” Winter in Saint Paul was the theme of the contest that provided four $750 awards. On March 20, Hasse read with the other three winners at the bookstore with Garrison Keillor as host. To read the winning poems: http://www.commongoodbooks.com
Between Us won the Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA) prize for the best book of poetry published in the region in 2017.
Listen to Garrison Keillor reading Margaret's poem "On the Captivity of Babies" on The Writer's Almanac, Sunday, November 10, 2019.
http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/radio/twa-the-writers-almanac-for-november-10-2019/
Margaret Hasse’s poems, featured on Poetry Sunday for Women’s Voices for Change, tell stories by means of juicy, living images that, like the best writing, carry within them an abundance of heart. A young boy enacting a modern, midwestern version of “On Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” a girl discovering the joys of adolescent defiance and independence, and a mother claiming and marking her child with animal intensity—these are wonderful, visceral poems showing a high level of craft, https://womensvoicesforchange.org/radiance-truant-and-marking-him-by-margaret-hasse.htm
Margaret has two poems in the 2019 edition of Saint Paul Almanac. With Athena Kildegaard, she is editing a collection of poems by women on motherhood experiences.
Common Good Books announced the winners of its 2018 annual poetry contest that included Hasse’s “Night on the Town.” Winter in Saint Paul was the theme of the contest that provided four $750 awards. On March 20, Hasse read with the other three winners at the bookstore with Garrison Keillor as host. To read the winning poems: http://www.commongoodbooks.com
Between Us won the Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA) prize for the best book of poetry published in the region in 2017.
Archival News
October 7, 2020, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Virtual reading and discussion sponsored by Unity Church Unitarian. Poet Margaret Hasse and painter Sharon DeMark read and showed images from their book called Shelter. The collaborators discussed how they worked together during the time of Covid-19 to create the book about safe places and comfort. Audience members were invited to describe what has sheltered them during this perilous time.
October 6, 2020, Watch the virtual Launch Event for Shelter sponsored by SubText Books. Watch Hasse and DeMark at the launch that was held on October 6 2020. with reading, conversation, and audience Q&A here.
September 27, 2020, Sunday, 6:00 p.m. Birds Nest series presented a virtual reading on Zoom with Margaret Hasse as featured reader, followed by other poets sharing open mic spots. Rick Hilber, host.
Between Us, Margaret Hasse’s 2016 collection is a silver medal recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award in poetry of the Independent Book Publishers Association. See all winners here: IBPA
Common Good Books announced the winners of its 2017annual poetry contest that included Hasse’s “Not Letting Go.” “Poems of experience” was the theme of the contest that provided ten $250 awards. To read the winning poems:
http://www.commongoodbooks.com
Margaret has two poems in the new anthology, The Kindness of Strangers, from Wising Up Press. More information and copies at
http://www.universaltable.org/bookstore.html
Margaret received an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board to share her new book, Between Us, with seniors in book clubs, community centers, and through writing workshops. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In December 2016, the University of Minnesota Upper Midwest Literary Archives received a grant from the Minnesota Historical Society to support four literary collections in its repository, including collections from Robert Bly, Bill Holm, Margaret Hasse, and Milkweed Editions. The grant project, Prairie Poets and Press: Literary Lives of the Upper Midwest, will allow the Archives to increase access to these collections in ways not otherwise possible without dedicated resources. The existing collections of these three poets and the press will be described in more detail and new donations from them will be integrated into the collectionss archive)
Margaret is featured in an interview in the November 9, 2016 issue of the Highland Villager. Read it here.
The Maria Faust Sonnet Festival named Margaret’s sonnet, “A Writer’s Ritual on a Winter’s Night,” among the top poems in its 2016 contest. She received a prize of $100.
BoomerLitMag features three of Margaret’s poems: http://boomerlitmag.com/margaret-hasse/
Margaret’s poem, “Folding,” is on Bearings online journal of the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research: http://collegevilleinstitute.org/bearings/folding
Verse-Virtual, a journal that fosters community among poets, has reprinted several of Margaret’s poems from Earth’s Appetite, including including “Shouting from the Rooftop.” Minnesota poet Steve Klepetar, also in the August issue, wrote: “Great poem. A real Minnesota voice; talk about all the women being strong! I love the verbs – ‘tore,’ ‘shredded,’ ‘wrenched,’ ‘squawked,’ ‘dislodged.’ The bat detail fits perfectly, as it plays against stereotypes of women terrified of those creatures, and the incident with the neighbor nails it too. I love the line ‘I grew large among the crowns of trees.’”
Check out Margaret’s poems on the July issue of Verse-Virtual: http://www.verse-virtual.com/margaret-hasse-2015-july.html
Firestone Feinberg, editor of Verse-Virtual, reprinted Margaret’s poem “Just Yesterday” from Earth’s Appetite,” and wrote about it: “(The poem) nostalgically reminds us that time passes—and passes fast—and sometimes brings changes that sadden us… and it tells us these truths eloquently, poignantly, and very gently.”
If you happen to love Door County, find Margaret’s poems in a new anthology called Soundings: Door County in Poetry.
“Truant” was selected by Ted Kooser for the national American Life in Poetry column and published in newspapers and online Monday, December 8, 2014:
http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/current.html
Margaret’s poem, “Blood Oranges,” was accepted and posted on RE / VERSE, a site that accepts previously published poems to give these poems another way to find readers. The editor, Ralph Murre, wrote that “Blood Oranges“ is wonderful poem that may help you see the light at the end of the doldrums, or at least to appreciate the bright spots within them.”
Take a look http://littleeaglereverse.blogspot.com, and climb aboard the oranage bus.
A review of Earth's Appetite by editor Joel Van Valin appeared in Whistling Shade Literary Journal, Spring-Summer 2014. Read it here.
Read the November 2013 article about Hasse and her new book in the Villager, click here.
“The range of Earth’s Appetite is astonishing,” writes Margot Galt, “and its charm amusing and touching throughout.” Read Galt’s blog post about the book: here
Margaret was among the guest writers at The Mississippi River Creative Writing Workshop in Saint Cloud on Tuesday, June 17. The workshop, led by William Meissner, ran June 16-19, 2014.
Earth’s Appetite, Margaret’s fourth collection of poems, came out in September, 2013, from Nodin Press. Available through local booksellers, Amazon, or http://www.itascabooks.com/earth-s-appetite.html. Recent or forthcoming appearances of Hasse’s poems in anthologies and journals include:
- “You’ll Never Know” in St. Paul Almanac 2014.
- “At the Residential School for the Blind” in Lake Region Review #3, October 2013. For more information: http://lakeregionwriters.net
- “Wilbur the Second,” Whistling Shade, http://whistlingshade.com
- “Truant,” “Wayward,” and “Mason Jar of Household Odds and Ends,” Sleet Magazine, http://sleetmagazine.com
Margaret has a poem called “Prairie World and Wanderer” in a recent issue of South Dakota Review, a publication associated with the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. She’s especially happy about being in this journal because she grew up in Vermillion and her father was on the math faculty at the U.S.D. A poem about bicycles is in the 2013 St. Paul Almanac.
Margaret was "chaired" as the 2011 bard of the Eisteddfod poetry celebration, an event that took place on June 25 at the Morgan Creek Winery in Cambria, Minnesota. As winner, she was seated on and then presented with a beautiful white oak chair, hand carved by woodworker Adam Marti. The annual event, modeled after traditional Welsh celebrations of literature and performance that take place in many parts of the world, is organized by poet John Calvin Rezmerski with support from the Blue Earth County Historical Society and other sponsors. The two step poetry competition involves poets submitting a manuscript of their poems from which five finalists are selected. The second step in the competition is reading at the festival, with three judges selecting the winner. NU Journal Article.pdf
Quiddity magazine has published three poems in its current issue: “Mississippi Queen,” “A Line from Shakespeare, Revised,” and “In an Artificial Pond.”
Recently released! Low Down and Coming On: A Feast of Delicious and Dangerous Poems about Pigs, edited by James P. Lenfestey, designed by Scott King, Red Dragonfly Press, which includes Margaret’s poem, “Parading Main Street.”
Poet Lore’s newest issue includes Margaret’s poem, And All Points West.
MRP Arts Reporter, Marianne Combs, featured Margaret’s poem, “Disguises,”on her October 11, 2010 State of the Arts blog.
In April 2010, Minnesota State Arts Board awarded a $5,600 artist grant to Margaret for travel and exploring new directions for her next book of poetry.
Since publication, Milk and Tides has twice appeared as a best seller on a weekly listing maintained by the national Poetry Foundation website. Poetry sales are culled from sales in 400 bookstores nationwide, and on Amazon.com. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Milk and Tides won the Midwest Book Award in Poetry from the Midwest Independent Book Publishers Association. The award was presented on May 13, 2009, at the Minnesota Humanities Center.
Mnartists.org contains a review of Milk and Tides by Connie Wanek in which she writes: “The poems are friendly, confidential, generous, and amusing; reading the book is like spending an afternoon with a witty acquaintance, a soon-to-be friend, as she shares her best stories with you.” http://www.mnartists.org/
Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude, a 2009 anthology from Holy Cow! Press, includes Margaret's poem, "A Breeze Bends the Grasses."
Everyday Poems for City Sidewalks, a project of Public Art Saint Paul and the City of Saint Paul Public Works, selected Meadowlark: Mending Song to be stamped in concrete in locations throughout the Twin Cities, including near the intersection of Macalester and Juliet. The poem is included in a letterpress fine art book with the other 19 winners and runners-up for sale at $18.00. http://www.publicartstpaul.org/everydaysidewalk/
Past Events
July 10, 2019, Wednesday, 7:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M., Celebrate a new anthology of poems called Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection, Next Chapter Booksellers, 38 Snelling Ave S, St Paul, MN 55105, USA (map). Editor James Crews of Vermont will join poets from the Upper Midwest presenting a free reading at Next Chapter Bookstore: Margaret Hasse, St. Paul, Tom Hennen, St. Paul, Marjorie Saiser, Nebraska, Thomas R. Smith, Wisconsin, and Connie Wanek, Mendota Heights.
June 20, 2019, Thursday, 7 PM, Magers & Quinn Bookstore, 3038 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis: Bill Meissner will read from his latest poetry book The Mapmaker’s Dream and Margaret Hasse will read from a new 2018 edition of her first book Stars Above Stars Below. Margaret and Bill long-time friends will also discuss their writing and publishing experience and read a favorite poem of one another’s.
May 19, 2019, Sunday, 3:00 P.M. Remembering Micawber’s: A Celebration of Words. After 47 years in St. Anthony Park, Micawber’s Books closed on April 14. A celebration of the store will be held on at 3 p.m. at St. Anthony Park United Church of Christ, 2129 Commonwealth Ave. Readings by Margaret Hasse, Eddie Owens, Tim Nolan, William Kent Krueger, and Joyce Sutphen. Music by Adam Granger.
May 22, 2019, Wednesday, 6:30-8 P.M, Duluth Dylan Fest 2019: Margaret, Joyce Sutphen, Tim Nolan and others will read at the Visiting Bob Poetry anthology Reading, Teatro Zuccone, Duluth, MN.
May 30, 2019, Thursday, 7:00-8:00 P.M. Margaret will read with Michael Moose at Sub-Text Bookstore, 6 W 5th St, St Paul, MN 55102
May 4, 2019, Saturday, 3:00 P.M. Margaret wass honored to introduce Ethna McKiernan at the launch of her latest book, Swimming with Shadows, at a book launch reading, The Celtic Junction, 836 N. Prior Ave, St. Paul, MN 55104-1040.
November 20, 2018, Tuesday, 7:30 P.M. An evening of poetry and music celebrating Bob Dylan, featuring local poets in the new anthology, Visiting Bob, including Margaret Hasse, Tim Nolan and others. Location: The University Club of St. Paul, 420 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55102.
November 13, 2018, Tuesday, 6:30 P.M. When we know something by heart, we’re saying we care about something enough to remember it and carry it around with us wherever we go. Join poet/performers Donte Collins, Margaret Hasse, and Naomi Cohn as they answer this question in poetry and conversation. Hear words presented from the heart and join in a conversation about poetry and the things we value enough to remember. Rondo Community Library, 461 Dale Street N., St Paul, MN 55104.
November 7, 2018, Wednesday, 7:00 P.M. Birchbark Books Reading Series, with Elizabeth Weir, William Reichard, Stanley Kusunoki, and Margaret Hasse at The Bockley Gallery, 2123 W. 21st Street, Minneapolis.
October 24, 2018, Wednesday, 7:00-8:00 P.M. Reading at Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, Mpls, 55406. Louis Jenkins, Freya Manfred and Margaret Hasse read recently published work celebrating the vital lifeline of nature, the fragile mortality of life, the passionate arc of relationships.
September 19, 2018, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30 A.M. Presentation at Poetry Club of Edina by poets Ted Bowman and Elizabeth Bourque Johnson, co-editors of The Ice Breaks, poems of loss and renewal, along with Margaret Hasse and Norita Dittberner-Jax, who are represented in the anthology. Hasse and Dittberner-Jax will also read from their recently published collections. All are welcome to attend. Edina Senior Center, 5280 Grandview Square, Suite 101, Edina, MN 55436, 952-833-9570.
August 11, 2018, Saturday, Northwoods Art & Book Festival, Hackensack, Minnesota, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. with literary events including a discussion and reading from their latest books by Margaret Hasse and Michael Dennis Browne.
August 2, 2018, Thursday, Midstream Reading Series with cello prelude 6:45-7:15 p.m. and reading 7:30 - 8:30 p.m, featuring Michael Dennis Browne, Sharon Chmielarz, Margaret Hasse, and Danny Klecko, Blue Moon building, 3820 East Lake St., Minneapolis, corner of 39th and East Lake Street. Upstairs. Entrance just west of the Blue Moon coffee house; up the stairs and to the left. Not wheel-chair accessible. Plentiful street parking.
April 11, 2018, Wednesday, 4:00—6:00 p.m. Margaret Hasse will be the featured reader at the annual Pankake Poetry Reading, Elmer L. Andersen Library, Room 120, University of Minnesota. Free and open to the public. Reservations begin February 1, 2018. More information about the reading is here.
December 6, 2017 Wednesday, 7 p.m. Western U-Plaza (previously Old Home building) corner of University and Western Avenues, 360 University Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55103. Impressions project event sponsored by Saint Paul Almanac to release 6 new poem-posters for the metro transit system, including ones by Margaret Hasse and Tim Nolan. Each of six poets read her or his work. All the artists discussed their process.
October 17, 2017, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Jim Heynen coordinated a reading as part of the Carol Connolly reading series in honor of poet John Calvin Rezmerski who died in 2016. Carol Connolly University Club reading series at the historic University Club, 420 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul.
September 14, 2017, Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. Margaret Hasse read with poet Maryann Corbett at Subtext Books, 6 W 5th St, St Paul, MN 55102.
June 21, 2017, Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. Poets and Writers and Musicians against the War on the Earth, with writers such as Peter Campion, Ed Bok Lee, Freya Manfred, and Margaret Hasse. The location was Saint Joan of Arc Church, 4537 3rd Avenue S., Minneapolis.
April 26, 2017, Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. Margaret Hasse read at Birchbark Books Reading Series, curated by Michael Kiesow Moore and Ardie Medina. Hasse is reading with Denise Low, Thomas Precore Weso, and Denise Lajimodiere. The reading was in the Bockley Gallery, followed by a reception in the bookstore itself. 2123 W 21st Street (west of Lake of the Isles, near Franklin)
http://www.bockleygallery.com/
Margaret has two poems in the new anthology, The Kindness of Strangers, from Wising Up Press. More information and copies at
http://www.universaltable.org/bookstore.html
April 20, 2017, Thursday, 7:00 p.m. Poetry Reading at Magers & Quinn Bookstore, featuring Emilie Buchwald reading from her new poetry collection, The Moment’s Only Moment, and Margaret Hasse, reading from her new Between Us, both books from Nodin Press.
April 13, 2017, Thursday, 7:00 p.m. Saint Paul Almanac celebrated the release
Sister Black Press, which offers a subscription of letterpress prints of poems released quarterly, created this card for the launch of Between Us. www.sisterblackpress.com
Red Bird Chapbooks has just released a limited edition anthology called A Little Book of Abundance: poems for thanksgiving throughout the year, edited by Margaret Hasse, with poetry from her writers’ workshop.
