Athena Kildegaard is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Prairie Midden (Tinderbox Editions). Her poems have appeared in Ecotone, Beloit Poetry Journal, Conduit, december, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and elsewhere, and they have been set to music by Linda Kachelmeier, Jennifer Higdon, Libby Larsen, Miny Esary, and other composers. She teaches at the University of Minnesota Morris.

Other poems by Athena Kildegaard in Verse Daily:
November 30, 2022:   "A Certainty That Facts Exist" "On the bare counter a glass..."
June 16, 2018:   "Song" "At any given time she only owned..."
April 7, 2012:   "Swans" "Two white bodies float..."

Books by Athena Kildegaard:

Other poems on the web by Athena Kildegaard:
"Three Fibonacci Poems"
"Love Like Horses"
Five poems
Two poems
"Allurement"
Three poems
"Remember"
"Variation on an Anecdote"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Sudden"

Athena Kildegaard's Website.

About Prairie Midden:

"In PRAIRIE MIDDEN, Athena Kildegaard delves into the archives and recovers and revivifies what was kept of the voices of settler women. She brings them into conversation with this moment--weaving a braid of voices from 19th century all the way to the 21st. These voices that build across centuries are at turns poignant, ruminative, and elegiac for not only people but also the prairie. They speak to settler and settled life in a place shaped in the name of "progress." I appreciate the way this moving collection brings me into these lives, and as the speaker of one of the "Dear prairie daughters" poems says "the only connections are the ones we make." You'll be grateful to connect with Prairie Midden."
—Sean Hill