Ibe Liebenberg

Ibe Liebenberg is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He lives in Chico, California, and works as a firefighter and as a lecturer at Chico State University. He is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. His work appears in the Threepenny Review, Chico State University’s Multicultural Echoes Literary Magazine, Black Lesbian Literary Collective, and the Journal of Chickasaw History and Culture.

Poetry – Issue 32

why i never put rez or off rez on my resume

or that I was born on ceremonial land / because the shitty out-of-state off rez free healthcare /
made my body a cavity. . . .

Poetry – Issue 32

Wolf OR-93

it was hunger. not the lust i imagined. / or the wasted no-shame howl. you sang.