WHAT: Area Poet Reads from and Signs New Book
WHEN: Monday, April 11 and Thursday, April 14, 2011
WHERE: UMM Briggs Library McGinnis Room, Common Cup
Area poet, Athena Kildegaard, will be celebrating the release of her new book, Bodies of Light, at two readings in Morris on April 11 and April 14.
The reading on April 11, in the UMM Briggs Library McGinnis Room, will also feature UMM creative writing students reading work they wrote during the annual All Night Write, which will occur through the night of Friday, April 8.
On Thursday, April 14, Kildegaard will be joined by musician William Pelowski at the Common Cup Coffee House. The reading is in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Prairie Renaissance Cultural Alliance. The meeting opens at 6:30 p.m. and the reading/performance will begin at 7:00 p.m. All are welcome. At both readings Kildegaard will be available to sign books.
Bodies of Light is Kildegaard’s second book, published by the independent Minnesota press Red Dragonfly Press. It features a painting by UMM studio arts professor Michael Eble. Poems from Bodies of Light have appeared widely in such journals as Mid-American Review, Tar River Poetry, The Malahat Review, Cream City Review and elsewhere.
Kildegaard is a lecturer at UMM and a recipient of grants from the Lake Region Arts Council and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She has lived in Morris for a decade, and before that in Mexico, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Poems in Bodies of Light are set in all these locations, as well as Denmark, where she recently spent a year with her family.
Tagged: Athena Kildegaard, Poetry, Publishing, Reading, Red Dragonfly Press
