The Corn is My Pleasure

/ Issue 13.3 /

A traditional Mandan Native American Indian song

My closest friend, what is it you adore?
You told me in reply, “It is the corn
Of ancient name which pleases to my core.”

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I’mupa wa’teweoni’tasike-
Na eteka na mita tamiha o-
Take ate ptaha pana sohe

Jennifer Reeser

Jennifer Reeser

Jennifer Reeser’s seventh collection, Strong Feather, is forthcoming from Able Muse Press, the sequel to INDIGENOUS, which was awarded “Best Poetry Book of 2019” by Englewood Review of Books. Her work appears in the anthology, "Christian Poetry in America Since 1940," edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas, forthcoming from Paraclete Press. She is a bi-racial writer of European-Native American ancestry. Her website may be viewed at www.jenniferreeser.com
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Jennifer Reeser’s seventh collection, Strong Feather, is forthcoming from Able Muse Press, the sequel to INDIGENOUS, which was awarded “Best Poetry Book of 2019” by Englewood Review of Books. Her work appears in the anthology, "Christian Poetry in America Since 1940," edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas, forthcoming from Paraclete Press. She is a bi-racial writer of European-Native American ancestry. Her website may be viewed at www.jenniferreeser.com