Margaret Hasse papers
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains the correspondence and manuscripts of poet Margaret Hasse, as well as materials documenting her work as a teacher and arts consultant. Also included are many books, chapbooks, periodicals, posters, and broadsides featuring Hasse and others in the Midwestern literary community. The bulk of the collection dates from 1970 to 2000.
Dates
- 1929 - 2017
- Majority of material found within 1970-2000
Language of Materials
English
Restrictions on Access
Materials in the "Correspondence" and "Journals" series are not accessible to the public until 2050. For more information, please contact the Upper Midwest Literary Archives.
Restrictions on Use
Copyright is retained by the copyright holder.
Biographical Note
Margaret Mary Hasse was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, in 1950. Soon after, her family moved to Vermillion, South Dakota, where her father was on the mathematics department faculty and also taught astronomy at the University of South Dakota. Margaret’s mother, Gladys Irene Elizabeth Hasse, was a life-long diarist and poet who published in journals such as the South Dakota Review. Hasse received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1973, and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1983, both in English.
Hasse is author of five collections of poetry, including Stars Above, Stars Below (1984), In a Sheep’s Eye, Darling (1988), Milk and Tides (2008), Earth’s Appetite (2013), and Between Us (2016). Three of her collections were finalists for the Minnesota Book Award. Milk and Tides won the 2009 Midwest Independent Publishers Association poetry award. She is editor of See My Message and Come Home: An Anthology of poetry from the Minnesota Poets in the Schools (1978), Secret Traffic: Selected Poems by Roy McBride (2013), and A Little Book of Abundance: Poems of Gratitude throughout the Year (2016). She has received two Loft-McKnight fellowships in poetry, two Minnesota State Arts Board poetry grants, two Jerome Foundation poetry grants, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Margaret Hasse’s professional life as a teaching poet, arts administrator, and arts consultant in the areas of planning and fundraising has brought her in contact with many Twin Cities’ arts organizations, including COMPAS (Community Programs in the Arts and Sciences), Minnesota Alliance for Arts in Education, The Loft Literary Center, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Walker Art Center, and SASE: the Write Place. She has curated literary reading series at ArtStart and Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts and performed her poetry in many settings, including in The Loft’s Writers on Stage program, directed by Ben Krielkamp.
Extent
18 Linear Feet (11 record cartons, 6 flat boxes, 3 book trays, 1 hollinger box)
2 DVD
2 CDs
Abstract
This collections contains the papers of Minneapolis (Minnesota) poet, teacher, and arts consultant Margaret Hasse, including manuscripts, correspondence, and published works, as well as material related to her teaching and commissions.
Arrangement
The collection is organized in the following series:
- Personal
- Correspondence
- Manuscripts
- Journals
- Project Files
- Teaching
- Published Works
- Posters and Broadsides
- Photographs
- Audio Visual
Physical Location
HB (R8, D19, S14-16)
Acquisition
Collection donated by Margaret Hasse in 2015.
Accruals
Additional accruals are expected.
Processing Information
Initial accessions were processed by Kate McManus in 2016.
Additional processing work was completed by Carissa Hansen in 2017 with the help of student assistant Pearl McClintock and funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.
- Arts -- Education and training. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Arts administrators Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Arts management Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correctional educators Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fliers (printed matter) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Forbes, Margaret
- Hasse, Margaret, 1950-
- Manuscripts Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- McBride, Roy
- Poetry Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Poetry -- Publishing Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Poets Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Prison educators Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Publications Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Teaching Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Margaret Hasse papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Kate McManus; updated by Carissa Hansen
- Date
- 2016; 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Upper Midwest Literary Archives Collecting Area