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Current Wisconsin Poet Laureate Margaret Rozga has published four books of poetry, including Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems (2017). This book, written with support from the American Antiquarian Society, looks at issues of women’s roles, western expansion, and race as they are woven through the life of politically active and well-connected Jessie Benton Frémont (1824-1902).

Rozga served as editor of the poetry chapbook anthology Where I Want to Live: Poems for Fair & Affordable Housing, a project for the 50th anniversary of Milwaukee’s fair housing marches. She participated in those marches, wrote about them in her award-winning first book, 200 Nights and One Day, and helped organize 50th anniversary events. She is also the author of Justice Freedom Herbs and Though I Haven’t Been to Baghdad, named by the Wisconsin Library Association as an outstanding achievement in poetry for 2012 and named as a Split This Rock Favorite Book of Poetry.