Athena Kildegaard is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Prairie Midden (Tinderbox Editions). Her poems have been set to music by Linda Kachelmeier, Jennifer Higdon, Frank Horvath, Libby Larsen, and several other composers. Her poems have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Colorado Review, Ecotone, North American Review and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Minnesota Morris.

Other poems by Athena Kildegaard in Verse Daily:
December 5, 2022:   "Around the Absence of Bluestem" "Around the absence of bluestem..."
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.

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October 11, 2022:   "My Body Is Mine" by Amira Antoun Salameh (translated by Yafa al-Shayeb and Jennifer Jean)
September 27, 2022:   "One Good Memory" by Noah Arhm Choi
September 23, 2022:   "Elites" by Maia Siegel
September 22, 2022:   "The Warm Bed" by Lynne Knight
July 9, 2022:   "Visiting My Mother's Wars" by A.E. Wilberton
June 2, 2022:   "In the Checkout Line at Rite Aid," by Cati Porter
March 18, 2022:   "Divorce" by Rebecca Morton
March 17, 2022:   "Goodbye Horses" by John Sibley Williams
March 16, 2022:   "I Get Why Dorothy Parker Gave All Her Money to the NAACP" by Michelle Bitting
September 10, 2021:   "Jittery Nocturne" by Kate Northrop
September 8, 2021:   "Meltdown" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
September 6, 2021:   "Now We Come to Ticks and Tocks" by Martha Silano
August 6, 2021:   "Between Jobs" by Lilian Ha
May 17, 2021:   "House Song with Wonder Woman" by Siew David Hii
May 14, 2021:   "I Can't Stop" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
May 12, 2021:   "The Missing Pages" by Mary Crow
May 10, 2021:   "On Pessimism" by John A. Nieves
July 24, 2020:   "Melancholy Street" by Rhett Iseman Trull
July 23, 2020:   "Lost" by Susanna Lang
July 22, 2020:   "The Men and the Quiet" by Sean Thomas Dougherty
July 21, 2020:   "Casual wind" by Shira Dentz
July 20, 2020:   "Terms of Agreement" by Mary Biddinger
November 14, 2019:   "Apocalypse #2" by David Beebe
November 13, 2019:   "Doppler" by David Beebe
November 12, 2019:   "Fire Country" by Rebecca Aronson
February 20, 2019:   "Hier Gibt es Blaugeerren" William Trowbridge
March 4, 2017:   "Ghost Walk After the Resurrection" by Chelsea Dingman
August 11, 2016:   "To The Astronaut: On Impact" by Lisa Fay Coutley
August 10, 2016:   "You Get to Missing" by Cady Vishniac
August 9, 2016:   "The Betta Fish, Christmas" by Julie Danho
November 1, 2015:   "Meditation: On Being a Mystery to Oneself" by Carl Phillips
August 30, 2012:   "from Clangings" by Steve Cramer
December 25, 2011:   "Frost in the Low Areas" by Karen Skolfield
December 23, 2011:   "Cursive" by Elizabeth Willis
November 5, 2011:   "Everyone in Goya's Black Paintings..." by Jeff Whitney
April 20, 2011:   "from Clangings" by Steven Cramer
May 25, 2010:   "I Want You" by Weston Cutter

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