Books
“Here’s how to read this collection: not politely, nibbling, with tea, no, but in a binge, with your bare hands, spilling and slurping. Athena’s harvest is in.” ~ Todd Boss, author of Yellowjacket and Pitch
“Athena Kildegaard’s new collection is going to make a lot of people sigh and wonder where they went astray on the road of love.” ~ Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota poet laureate
This book grew from a year of writing a love poem every day — a labor of love!
Nodin Press, 2012
Finalist for the 2011
Minnesota Book Award in poetry.
Red Dragonfly Press, 2011
“Kildegaard never surrenders to sentimentality; her poems are rooted in experience.” ~ John Calvin Rezmerksi, author of Breaking the Rules and What Do I Know?, among others.
Rare Momentum is a collection of 62 fibonaccis, formal poems based on the mathematical sequence.
Red Dragonfly Press, 2006


