Works Cited and Sources
Foerster, Jennifer Elise. From “Coosa.” Poetry 212.3 (June 2018).
Wyss, Hilary. English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Sources:
There are many works of scholarship about Coosaponakeesa as an historical figure, the most complete and recent of which is Steven C. Hahn’s The Life and Times of Mary Musgrove (University Press of Florida, 2012). For an examination of her as an author, see Chapter 1 in my book In the Neighborhood: Women’s Publication in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016). The multi-volume series Colonial Records of Georgia (Atlanta, 1904-) contains transcriptions of many documents by and about Coosaponakeesa, including the memorials. Craig Womack’s Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) is a groundbreaking book-length study of Creek literature, though it does not discuss Coosaponakeesa. The introduction to Lisa Brooks’ The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) offers an influential conception of the roots of Native writing and literature in early America.For more an audio recording of an excerpt of Jennifer Elise Foerster’s “Coosa,” go to https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/146714/from-coosa. Another example of a poem related to Coosaponakeesa is Rayna Green’s “Coosaponakeesa (Mary Mathews Musgrove Bosomworth), Leader of the Creeks, 1700-1783” (1984). Green, who is Cherokee, dedicates her poem to her friend, the Creek poet Joy Harjo. To read Green’s poem as well as work by Harjo, see Green’s edited anthology That’s What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American Women (Indiana University Press, 1984).