Great Regulars: An actress and a journalist, [Meridel] Le Sueur

was blacklisted in the 1950s as a communist, but by the 1970s she was hailed as a proto-feminist for her writings in support of women's rights. In her later years, Le Sueur lived in St. Paul, and wrote popular children's biographies. She was heavily influenced by poems and stories that she heard from Native American women, which you can see in this poem, "Dead in Bloody Snow:"

Dead in Bloody Snow

from Marianne Combs: Minnesota Public Radio: State of the Arts: Minnesota Poetry: Meridel Le Sueur's "Dead in Bloody Snow"

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