Annie Wenstrup
@akwenstrup.bsky.social
Dena’ina poet. The Museum of Unnatural Histories, Wesleyan University Press, March 2025. Here for the fish.
Native American History Month is the perfect time for non-Indigenous writers and scholars to stop referring to Indigenous belief systems and stories as “folklore” and “myth.”
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Native American History Month is the perfect time for non-Indigenous writers and scholars to stop referring to Indigenous belief systems and stories as “folklore” and “myth.”
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February 5, 2026 | 7-9pm Cameron Awkward-Rich, @sadqueer4life.bsky.social, Chet’la Sebree, and @akwenstrup.bsky.social
February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social
February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading
February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social
February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
February 5, 2026 | 7-9pm Cameron Awkward-Rich, @sadqueer4life.bsky.social, Chet’la Sebree, and @akwenstrup.bsky.social
February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social
February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading
February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social
February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading
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Happy to help share the news of the Literary Arts Fund launch today and to serve as its executive director. More here: literaryartsfund.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Happy to help share the news of the Literary Arts Fund launch today and to serve as its executive director. More here: literaryartsfund.org
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Write a critical essay with me this Saturday! 🥰
In this generative workshop, we’ll cover essential elements of long and short form reviews, with a special focus on essay-length reviews. We’ll also address practical aspects of writing criticism including finding a home for your critical essay, and much more!
Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/fall...
Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/fall...
October 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Write a critical essay with me this Saturday! 🥰
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If there was ever a time that we need Indigenous stories told in our own language & imbued with our values - that time is NOW. It is with great honor & humility that we will premiere our short #TwoOldWomen film at #HIFF45 w/ our Kanaka relatives. 🙏🏽 Mahsi’choo to author #VelmaWallis for her support!
October 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
If there was ever a time that we need Indigenous stories told in our own language & imbued with our values - that time is NOW. It is with great honor & humility that we will premiere our short #TwoOldWomen film at #HIFF45 w/ our Kanaka relatives. 🙏🏽 Mahsi’choo to author #VelmaWallis for her support!
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Maybe the Body by Asa Drake, forthcoming from Tinhouse
October 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Maybe the Body by Asa Drake, forthcoming from Tinhouse
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'Miserable': Hundreds sheltering in Western Alaska schools in dire conditions alaskapublic.org/news/environ...
👉🏾 bit.ly/help4wak
👉🏾 bit.ly/help4wak
'Miserable': Hundreds sheltering in Western Alaska schools in dire conditions
The state is evacuating the vulnerable and trying to find safe shelter for all. “We're moving as fast as we can,” the incident commander said. “We know that folks are miserable.”
alaskapublic.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
'Miserable': Hundreds sheltering in Western Alaska schools in dire conditions alaskapublic.org/news/environ...
👉🏾 bit.ly/help4wak
👉🏾 bit.ly/help4wak
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I have a new record coming out October 24th called "Live Like the Sky" and this is the first video by Inuk filmmaker asinnajaq. Filmed in Kangiqliniq (Rankin Inlet), Inukjuak, Tiotia:ke (Montreal), Pittsburgh & Philadelphia.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Murder of Crows
YouTube video by youvechangedrecords
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September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I have a new record coming out October 24th called "Live Like the Sky" and this is the first video by Inuk filmmaker asinnajaq. Filmed in Kangiqliniq (Rankin Inlet), Inukjuak, Tiotia:ke (Montreal), Pittsburgh & Philadelphia.
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I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
Opinion | How I Ran Afoul of the Air Force Academy
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
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Listen here ya bald coot
Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are), Volume 3
We just can’t bananaquit them
www.merriam-webster.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Listen here ya bald coot
In July I had the pleasure of collaborating with @heideerdrich.bsky.social and Kim Blaeser on a poem inspired by Sky Hopinka’s work. You can watch us read the poem on YouTube and read the text at MoMA Magazine
youtu.be/SBReR5dkaXU?...
youtu.be/SBReR5dkaXU?...
In Na Po Poets on Spirit Lines in Words and Images
YouTube video by The Museum of Modern Art
youtu.be
September 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
In July I had the pleasure of collaborating with @heideerdrich.bsky.social and Kim Blaeser on a poem inspired by Sky Hopinka’s work. You can watch us read the poem on YouTube and read the text at MoMA Magazine
youtu.be/SBReR5dkaXU?...
youtu.be/SBReR5dkaXU?...
The best data we currently have about the scope of MMIP in Alaska comes from a 2018 Urban Indian Health Institute Report. You can read it at this link
www.uihi.org/wp-content/u...
www.uihi.org/wp-content/u...
August 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The best data we currently have about the scope of MMIP in Alaska comes from a 2018 Urban Indian Health Institute Report. You can read it at this link
www.uihi.org/wp-content/u...
www.uihi.org/wp-content/u...
In 2023 I had the privilege of speaking with artist about their advocacy to end violence against Indigenous Alaskans. I want to highlight their voices, always, but especially in light of the AKDPS’s refusal to assist Data for Indigenous Justice.
Bobby Qalutaksraq Brower “Healing Stitches”
Bobby Qalutaksraq Brower “Healing Stitches”
August 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
In 2023 I had the privilege of speaking with artist about their advocacy to end violence against Indigenous Alaskans. I want to highlight their voices, always, but especially in light of the AKDPS’s refusal to assist Data for Indigenous Justice.
Bobby Qalutaksraq Brower “Healing Stitches”
Bobby Qalutaksraq Brower “Healing Stitches”
In 2023 I had the privilege of speaking with artist about their advocacy to end violence against Indigenous Alaskans. I want to highlight their voices, always, but especially in light of the AKDPS’s refusal to assist Data for Indigenous Justice.
Amber Webb’s Memorial Qaspeq
2018-2022
Amber Webb’s Memorial Qaspeq
2018-2022
August 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In 2023 I had the privilege of speaking with artist about their advocacy to end violence against Indigenous Alaskans. I want to highlight their voices, always, but especially in light of the AKDPS’s refusal to assist Data for Indigenous Justice.
Amber Webb’s Memorial Qaspeq
2018-2022
Amber Webb’s Memorial Qaspeq
2018-2022
[when asked about the refusal] A spokesperson for the governor did not respond to emailed and hand-delivered questions about the state’s failure to provide names of homicide victims to Apok’s group.
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
Alaska vowed to resolve murders of Indigenous people. Now it refuses to provide their names
www.adn.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
[when asked about the refusal] A spokesperson for the governor did not respond to emailed and hand-delivered questions about the state’s failure to provide names of homicide victims to Apok’s group.
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social x me x Candice Hopkins at the moMA, October 7.
Imagining Indigenous Futures | MoMA
How do we relate to the world around us? How do we dream new worlds to life? How do we resist in times of upheaval? In his new book Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair, Joseph M. Pie...
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August 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social x me x Candice Hopkins at the moMA, October 7.
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Alaska's legislature has adjourned a special session, only hours after it convened. They overrode the Governor's $50M cut to education, but it doesn't include $$$ schools need for construction & maintenance. Nearly $28 million that was cut in June won't be restored www.propublica.org/article/alas...
Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools.
Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-th...
www.propublica.org
August 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Alaska's legislature has adjourned a special session, only hours after it convened. They overrode the Governor's $50M cut to education, but it doesn't include $$$ schools need for construction & maintenance. Nearly $28 million that was cut in June won't be restored www.propublica.org/article/alas...
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Hi #skystorians #alaskasky & #Nativesky 👋
Looking for some non-fiction/Native history summer reading?
Right now my book Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II is 40% off plus free shipping if you order through UW Press’ website with the code WARM25:
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
🌻
Looking for some non-fiction/Native history summer reading?
Right now my book Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II is 40% off plus free shipping if you order through UW Press’ website with the code WARM25:
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
🌻
July 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Hi #skystorians #alaskasky & #Nativesky 👋
Looking for some non-fiction/Native history summer reading?
Right now my book Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II is 40% off plus free shipping if you order through UW Press’ website with the code WARM25:
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
🌻
Looking for some non-fiction/Native history summer reading?
Right now my book Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II is 40% off plus free shipping if you order through UW Press’ website with the code WARM25:
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
🌻
NYC Friends!
I’m reading with Kimberly Blaeser, Sky Hopinka and @heideerdrich.bsky.social at MoMA at the end of the month and would love to see you.It’s going to be amazing!
www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
I’m reading with Kimberly Blaeser, Sky Hopinka and @heideerdrich.bsky.social at MoMA at the end of the month and would love to see you.It’s going to be amazing!
www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
In-Na-Po Poets on Spirit Lines in Words and Images | MoMA
MoMA welcomes Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po), a collective committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native w...
www.moma.org
July 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
NYC Friends!
I’m reading with Kimberly Blaeser, Sky Hopinka and @heideerdrich.bsky.social at MoMA at the end of the month and would love to see you.It’s going to be amazing!
www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
I’m reading with Kimberly Blaeser, Sky Hopinka and @heideerdrich.bsky.social at MoMA at the end of the month and would love to see you.It’s going to be amazing!
www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
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It is a human right to learn to read but in too many places, kids across Alaska are learning in buildings with black mold & leaking roofs. They're stuffed into classrooms with only one overworked teacher.
It’s a system guaranteed to fail.
www.adn.com/opinions/202...
It’s a system guaranteed to fail.
www.adn.com/opinions/202...
Opinion: You can’t hold funding for Alaska public education hostage and expect it to improve
Without support, even good education policies are doomed to fail.
www.adn.com
July 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It is a human right to learn to read but in too many places, kids across Alaska are learning in buildings with black mold & leaking roofs. They're stuffed into classrooms with only one overworked teacher.
It’s a system guaranteed to fail.
www.adn.com/opinions/202...
It’s a system guaranteed to fail.
www.adn.com/opinions/202...
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Really grateful for this interview and writeup of Alaska Native Resilience Voices from World War II in the Fairbanks Daily News Miner! Had a blast connecting with journalist David James
Book published by:
@uwapress.bsky.social
www.newsminer.com/features/sun...
Book published by:
@uwapress.bsky.social
www.newsminer.com/features/sun...
Book chronicles the hidden costs of war for Alaska Native communities
In Alaska Native Resilience, Holly Miowak Guise draws on oral histories and archival research to look at how Alaska Natives endured displacement, discrimination and war — and how their resilience
www.newsminer.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Really grateful for this interview and writeup of Alaska Native Resilience Voices from World War II in the Fairbanks Daily News Miner! Had a blast connecting with journalist David James
Book published by:
@uwapress.bsky.social
www.newsminer.com/features/sun...
Book published by:
@uwapress.bsky.social
www.newsminer.com/features/sun...
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Today’s Featured Poem:
“[redacted]” by m. s. RedCherries from mother published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/redacted/
“[redacted]” by m. s. RedCherries from mother published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/redacted/
[redacted]
when the woman died in her bed at twenty-six, she was laid alongside
another one hundred and twenty patients
poems.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
“[redacted]” by m. s. RedCherries from mother published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/redacted/
“[redacted]” by m. s. RedCherries from mother published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/redacted/
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The WGA members who write on shows like “Molly of Denali” know people in rural America NEED public media to SURVIVE:
"Public media is often the last remaining communication left to us when conditions are severe and power goes out...the essential service of public media saves lives and property."
"Public media is often the last remaining communication left to us when conditions are severe and power goes out...the essential service of public media saves lives and property."
Opinion: Public media is a lifeline in Alaska and rural America. The Senate needs to stop the proposed cuts.
We’re Alaska Native writers on “Molly of Denali,” and we know how much is at stake if Congress cuts funding.
www.adn.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The WGA members who write on shows like “Molly of Denali” know people in rural America NEED public media to SURVIVE:
"Public media is often the last remaining communication left to us when conditions are severe and power goes out...the essential service of public media saves lives and property."
"Public media is often the last remaining communication left to us when conditions are severe and power goes out...the essential service of public media saves lives and property."
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I’d like to introduce you to our lord and savior…revision
July 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’d like to introduce you to our lord and savior…revision