Kenzie Allen 🌵
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Poet & Prof @ YorkU. CLOUD MISSIVES ☁️💌 (@Tin_House 2024). PhD. Oneida of WI 🐢. Art, design, anthropology, opera. EIC @Anthropoid_co. Founder @apiarylit
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Joined September 2008
I see poetry, and writing, as a responsibility. Responsibility to what you are putting into the world, and to the people in that world.
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He’s been a burr on my side since I got home and shows no signs of being dislodged.
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I had planned to spend serious time with my daughter soon as I got back from this trip, because the toddler must need that the most out of all of us right? . But lest I forget…
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Dear academia: what if I just did the parts I wanted to, and not anything else, what then.
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We just call it “judging a contest” where I’m from. Everyone’s clear on what’s going on. It’s great.
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Is there a world in which I just never do peer review? I’ve no business doing it anyway. They just look for warm bodies, or?.
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Jazzed to be joining the faculty at the @Tin_House Autumn Workshop this year — and what an amazing lineup indeed 😍.
FALL in love with your writing at the 2025 Tin House Autumn Workshops! Join us for two weekends full of craft, laughs, and, of course, karaoke, all while improving a work-in-progress with input from one of our amazing faculty!!!. Apply:
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And lots of sun and cloud formations during the daytime :) last two pics are virga and water dogs. Water dogs hang around in the morning and masquerade as smokes. #sandmountain #firelookout
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Beautiful sunset last night, and some nice cloud visits during the day . #sandmountain #firelookout
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I typed in the title of one of my published poems into a Google search, and what the shit is this
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Just an incredible amount of tortoise shell butterflies up here this year. #sandmountain #firelookout
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This morning we are completely socked in — what it must feel like to be living in a cloud ☁️. #sandmountain #firelookout
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Today we had a tiny bit of rain — a rare treat for me. Haven’t been rained on at the summit since I was younger and up here for entire summers.
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Hello again! #sandmountain #firelookout — will be in service here the next few days, and per usual, tweeting about it :)
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And then you see the comments whenever someone Indigenous says anything at all….
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Feels like you get media requests right when you’re the most burnt out.
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