Poets Su Smallen and Athena Kildegaard read from their work
05/22/2012 7:00 pm
Two of the nominees for the 2012 Minnesota Book Award for poetry visit Common Good Books to share their work.
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Su Smallen is the author of Weight of Light (Laurel Poetry Collective),nominated for thePushcart Press Editor’s Book Award, and Buddha, Proof
(Broadcraft Press) a Minnesota Book Award 2012 finalist. Other awards
include the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize. Su’s poems and essays appear in
many journals, anthologies, and chapbooks, notably Midway Journal, Water~Stone Review, Collecting Life, and Bodies of Evidence.
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Athena Kildegaard is the author of three books of poetry, Rare Momentum, Bodies of Light (a Minnesota Book Award finalist), and Cloves & Honey. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Cream City Review, Malahat Review, Tar River Poetry, Mid-American Review, Faultline,
and in several anthologies. She is the recipient of the LRAC/McKnight
Fellowship and grants from the Lake Region Arts Council and the
Minnesota State Arts Board. Kildegaard teaches at the University of
Minnesota, Morris.
