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.

Margaret’s other poetry books are The Call of Glacier Park; Summoned; 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 additional, 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.