Athena Kildegaard Book Launch
Featuring Ann DuHamel, Maria Jette, Linda Kachelmeier

March 3, 2018
Studio Z: 275 East Fourth Street, Suite 200, St. Paul
7 p.m. 
​Free
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To celebrate the publication of Athena Kildegaard's new book of poetry, pianist Ann DuHamel and soprano Maria Jette will perform a song cycle of poems from the book composed by Linda Kachelmeier. The program will also include a discussion of the process of bringing this song cycle to life and readings of poems from the book.


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Athena Kildegaard lives in prairie pothole country — that is, Morris, Minnesota — where she’s a lecturer at the University of Minnesota.
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Here are a few things she’s done:
  • cleaned creamed corn machines
  • nursed two beautiful children
  • eaten fresh pineapple
  • listened to her husband play banjo
  • worked as a resident artist in Minnesota, Mississippi, and Texas
  • taught 6th grade, high school English, and at the college level freshman composition, creative writing, environmental ethics
  • read War and Peace three times
  • received grants from the Lake Region Arts Council and the Minnesota State Arts Board
  • received the 2011 LRAC/McKnight Fellowship


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