Prose #2: Jennifer Reeser

"Carnival Corona" by Jennifer Reeser

(New Orleans, LA) Mardi Gras unfolds in the wake of early COVID: written in the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe.

This is the second installment of the Belle Point Prose Series, an ongoing collection of short prose works by Mid-Southern writers. 

Jennifer Reeser is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Strong Feather (Able Muse Press, 2022) and Indigenous (Able Muse Press, 2019), which was awarded Best Poetry Book of 2019 by Englewood Review of Books. Reeser’s poems, reviews, and translations of Russian, French, Cherokee, and other Native American languages have appeared in Poetry, Rattle, the Hudson Review, Recours au Poème, Light Quarterly, the Formalist, the Dark Horse, SALT, Able Muse, and elsewhere. A biracial writer of European American and Native American Indian ancestry, Reeser was born in Louisiana. She studied English at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She now divides her time between Louisiana and her land on the Cherokee Reservation in Indian Country, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, capital of the Cherokee Nation, of which her family is a part.

Publication Date: September 2022

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