Lightning strikes Electric Peak during a thunderstorm passing over Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Neal Herbert/NPS
Hello My Friends At MoJo,
I’ve begun working on my book again. With all our isolation I’m finding the computer my dear ally. Sending a poem I began last summer while viewing the painting of one of my children. I appreciate his detail and colors, so close to a high resolution camera image. I remember one of my father’s teachings of how the senses are our friends and how to honor them, use them and to study what they relay.
EDITOR'S NOTE: May we share a few things you may not know about Mountain Journal poet in residence Lois Red Elk (Dakota/Lakota) who is an elder at Fort Peck and an adjunct professor at the local community college. On her mother's side of the family she has Isanti roots and from her father's Hunkpapa and Ihanktonwa blood line, she is descended from Sitting Bull. During her earlier years living in Los Angeles, Red Elk was a TV talk show host, an FM radio host at Pasadena City College, and a technical advisor for many Hollywood film productions.
We are pleased that Lois is working away on a new collection of poems and will let you know when it is published. In the meantime, ask for her other volumes at your favorite local bookseller: Our Blood Remembers, winner of the best non-fiction award from Woodcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers; Dragonfly Weather; and Why I Return to Makoce with a foreword from Montana's recent state poet laureate Lowell Jaeger and nominated for a High Plains Book Award in poetry.
About Lois Red Elk-Reed
Lois Red Elk-Reed is a poet who calls the high plains home. She is Mountain Journal's poet in residence.
