Kenzie
@cerena.bsky.social
Poet & prof. Author of CLOUD MISSIVES (Tin House, 2024).
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💐Congratulations Kenzie Allen @cerena.bsky.social !
🏆Finalist for the 2025 @mayaangelouaward.bsky.social !
Read more: kclibrary.org/news/2025-10...
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🏆Finalist for the 2025 @mayaangelouaward.bsky.social !
Read more: kclibrary.org/news/2025-10...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
💐Congratulations Kenzie Allen @cerena.bsky.social !
🏆Finalist for the 2025 @mayaangelouaward.bsky.social !
Read more: kclibrary.org/news/2025-10...
@kclibrary.bsky.social
🏆Finalist for the 2025 @mayaangelouaward.bsky.social !
Read more: kclibrary.org/news/2025-10...
@kclibrary.bsky.social
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I’m honored to have “The Peacock Takes the Stairs” & “The Peacock Loses His Mate” as part of Kenzie Allen’s guest-edited “More-Than-Human-World” folio in the current issue of Poet Lore. Thank you to @cerena.bsky.social @eaholla.bsky.social & the rest of the crew for another fantastic issue!
October 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’m honored to have “The Peacock Takes the Stairs” & “The Peacock Loses His Mate” as part of Kenzie Allen’s guest-edited “More-Than-Human-World” folio in the current issue of Poet Lore. Thank you to @cerena.bsky.social @eaholla.bsky.social & the rest of the crew for another fantastic issue!
Just received workshop packets for the upcoming @tinhouse.bsky.social Autumn Workshop, and I am so filled with joy and gratitude for these powerful, beautiful words. To get to work with these writers is an abolute dream. ❤️
October 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just received workshop packets for the upcoming @tinhouse.bsky.social Autumn Workshop, and I am so filled with joy and gratitude for these powerful, beautiful words. To get to work with these writers is an abolute dream. ❤️
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This is one of my favorite poems I wrote this winter. It's a little messy but also one I was resistant to change? So glad @cerena.bsky.social and Poet Lore gave it a home in its current form. Every once in a while, I need to protect a sentimental poem.
September 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is one of my favorite poems I wrote this winter. It's a little messy but also one I was resistant to change? So glad @cerena.bsky.social and Poet Lore gave it a home in its current form. Every once in a while, I need to protect a sentimental poem.
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This month we’re celebrating the work of Kenzie Allen in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @cerena.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This month we’re celebrating the work of Kenzie Allen in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @cerena.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
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Congrats @cerena.bsky.social !
Congratulations to CLOUD MISSIVES by Kenzie Allen, published by @tinhouse.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Award in Poetry! tinhouse.com/book/cloud-m...
May 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Congrats @cerena.bsky.social !
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Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte.
"to hold sky, rain, all
beloved creatures born to climb.
And I, earthbound, earth-bonded,
a troth renewed with each step."
Two poems by @cerena.bsky.social. With art by Debra Yepa-Pappan.
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/05/13/t...
"to hold sky, rain, all
beloved creatures born to climb.
And I, earthbound, earth-bonded,
a troth renewed with each step."
Two poems by @cerena.bsky.social. With art by Debra Yepa-Pappan.
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/05/13/t...
Two poems by Kenzie Allen
Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte. to hold sky, rain, all beloved creatures born to climb. And I, earthbound, earth-bonded, a troth renewed with each step. (poetry)
anotherchicagomagazine.net
May 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte.
"to hold sky, rain, all
beloved creatures born to climb.
And I, earthbound, earth-bonded,
a troth renewed with each step."
Two poems by @cerena.bsky.social. With art by Debra Yepa-Pappan.
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/05/13/t...
"to hold sky, rain, all
beloved creatures born to climb.
And I, earthbound, earth-bonded,
a troth renewed with each step."
Two poems by @cerena.bsky.social. With art by Debra Yepa-Pappan.
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/05/13/t...
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“Today’s beautiful, incantatory poem contains a rich message of communal nurturance, how we soften each other’s fall, as we learn to acknowledge our purpose in the universe,” shares Major.
Read “In Which I Become (Skywoman)” by Kenzie Allen @cerena.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social: bit.ly/4k0MmtB
Read “In Which I Become (Skywoman)” by Kenzie Allen @cerena.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social: bit.ly/4k0MmtB
February 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“Today’s beautiful, incantatory poem contains a rich message of communal nurturance, how we soften each other’s fall, as we learn to acknowledge our purpose in the universe,” shares Major.
Read “In Which I Become (Skywoman)” by Kenzie Allen @cerena.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social: bit.ly/4k0MmtB
Read “In Which I Become (Skywoman)” by Kenzie Allen @cerena.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social: bit.ly/4k0MmtB
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It makes me so happy to see @cerena.bsky.social's gorgeous book get recognition out there in the world!
Here’s a new collection for you, out from @tinhouse.bsky.social , who publish some of my favorite collections. This collection is for the heady, the heartbroken, the mythologists. There were moments in this collection I held my breath, stunned at connections I didn’t see coming.
January 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It makes me so happy to see @cerena.bsky.social's gorgeous book get recognition out there in the world!
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💐Congratulations Kenzie Allen (@cerena.bsky.social) & Armen Davoudian !
Longlisted for the 🏆2024 National Book Critics Circle (@bookcritics.bsky.social) Award for Poetry!
Congrats to all of the longlisted authors!
www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...
Longlisted for the 🏆2024 National Book Critics Circle (@bookcritics.bsky.social) Award for Poetry!
Congrats to all of the longlisted authors!
www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...
December 19, 2024 at 4:25 PM
💐Congratulations Kenzie Allen (@cerena.bsky.social) & Armen Davoudian !
Longlisted for the 🏆2024 National Book Critics Circle (@bookcritics.bsky.social) Award for Poetry!
Congrats to all of the longlisted authors!
www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...
Longlisted for the 🏆2024 National Book Critics Circle (@bookcritics.bsky.social) Award for Poetry!
Congrats to all of the longlisted authors!
www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...
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Congrats @cerena.bsky.social ! Featured in Poets & Writers' Debut Poets Issue!
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www.pw.org/content/the_...
December 12, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Congrats @cerena.bsky.social ! Featured in Poets & Writers' Debut Poets Issue!
www.pw.org/content/the_...
www.pw.org/content/the_...
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Big thanks to Brittany Cavallaro for the chance to highlight 2024 poems I loved in @literaryhub.bsky.social, including one by @cerena.bsky.social! (+ gratitude to Anna Journey for unexpectedly tagging one of mine here too from @newyorker.com! 🥰) lithub.com/49-contempor...
49 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024
In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me…
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December 18, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Big thanks to Brittany Cavallaro for the chance to highlight 2024 poems I loved in @literaryhub.bsky.social, including one by @cerena.bsky.social! (+ gratitude to Anna Journey for unexpectedly tagging one of mine here too from @newyorker.com! 🥰) lithub.com/49-contempor...
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When poets say the moon is a cliche and when Sylvia Plath said the moon is:
“White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime”
“White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime”
November 19, 2024 at 11:07 PM
When poets say the moon is a cliche and when Sylvia Plath said the moon is:
“White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime”
“White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime”
If anyone assigns CLOUD MISSIVES for their poetry/creative writing/literature course, I would love to zoom in to chat with your class!
I’ve also got some fun writing exercises to go with the book :) ☁️💌
I’ve also got some fun writing exercises to go with the book :) ☁️💌
November 16, 2024 at 1:34 AM
If anyone assigns CLOUD MISSIVES for their poetry/creative writing/literature course, I would love to zoom in to chat with your class!
I’ve also got some fun writing exercises to go with the book :) ☁️💌
I’ve also got some fun writing exercises to go with the book :) ☁️💌
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"Tomorrow, find me gone from the lawn: head of fawn, torso, cherubic dawn."
Propulsive brilliance from @jiminseo.bsky.social
Propulsive brilliance from @jiminseo.bsky.social
Today’s Featured Poem:
“OSSIA” by @jiminseo.bsky.social, from OSSIA, published by Changes Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/ossia/
“OSSIA” by @jiminseo.bsky.social, from OSSIA, published by Changes Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/ossia/
"OSSIA" by Jimin Seo
from "OSSIA" published by Changes Press
poems.com
November 15, 2024 at 8:23 PM
"Tomorrow, find me gone from the lawn: head of fawn, torso, cherubic dawn."
Propulsive brilliance from @jiminseo.bsky.social
Propulsive brilliance from @jiminseo.bsky.social