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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩
@kinsaledrake.bsky.social
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writer, author of THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET, winner of the National Poetry Series⋆｡°✩
⊹₊⟡⋆BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD, ed. Darcie Little Badger, Kinsale Drake, Stacie Denetsosie forthcoming Nov. 2025 ⋆｡°✩
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Actress Amber Midthunder, best known for NOVOCAINE (2025) and PREY (2022), gives her reading recs: www.instagram.com/p/DOyOrbfDSO...
September 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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NDN Girls Book Club, which distributes free books to tribal communities, was featured in PBS: tn.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ysu...
September 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Peach thinks it’s neat
A pug cuddled in a white blanket looks at an image of Beyond the Glittering World
September 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD got a starred review in Publishers Weekly!!!! INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS!!!!
An image with the cover of Beyond the Glittering World and the starred review: “ This beautiful anthology of poetry and prose by contemporary Native American writers includes traditional motifs along with works of stark feminism and hopeful futurism. The poem “The Rhythm of Becoming” by Dominique Daye Hunter evokes the cadence of oral storytelling (one quatrain begins, “Ni:ska learns the old songs,” followed by the line “She learns the old songs,” which is then repeated twice). A.J. Eversole’s appealing and mischievous story “Dilasulo Walks” is narrated by a pair of moccasins on display in a Dallas museum. The moccasins have a conversation with a Native artist visiting the museum, with whom they agree that “art should be admired, but shoes should be worn,” prompting the artist to walk out with them on her feet. Arielle Twist laments violence against Indigenous women in the poem “In the beginning, it’s just you and me against the world,” in which a daughter worries about how “moms can go missing and die.” In Moniquill Blackgoose’s visionary “Sky Woman Rising: A Memoir,” a storyteller tells a group of children in the 2050s about how their people built the Sky New World, explaining that while many of them left Earth for the utopia, some stayed behind to “preserve and restore” their ancestral land, in the hope that someday they can all return. Readers will find a wide assortment of riches on offer here. (Nov.)”
September 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 30/31

The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket by @kinsaledrake.bsky.social 🪢🌌

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[library book sits on dark velvet couch] Cover illustration by Erin Kirk is a red & purple SW landscape/horizon (spires & other rock formations) under a huge, pink, light blue, then deep blue starry sky, all enclosed in a purple & pink-studded frame w/ pink flowers, a blooming cactus, & turquoise jewelry surrounding it. All text is centered. [in large, very light pink, in the light blue cloudy sky portion:] THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET [below the horizon line, in medium, light blue:] KINSALE DRAKE [below, in small pink:] THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES [same pink, below, tiny:] SELECTED BY JACQUELINE ALLEN TRIMBLE
August 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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July 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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COVER REVEAL!!! Our anthology of Indigenous Futurisms <3333
kinsaledrake.bsky.social ⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · Jun 6
Billy-Ray Belcourt, Angeline Boulley, Shane Hawk, and Deborah Taffa Jackson have all praised our anthology, available for preorder now! @littlebadger.bsky.social
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June 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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kinsaledrake.bsky.social ⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · Jun 6
Billy-Ray Belcourt, Angeline Boulley, Shane Hawk, and Deborah Taffa Jackson have all praised our anthology, available for preorder now! @littlebadger.bsky.social
www.torreyhouse.org/product-page...
June 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I don’t know what YOU need but I really liked Kinsale Drake’s The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket.

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June 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Billy-Ray Belcourt, Angeline Boulley, Shane Hawk, and Deborah Taffa Jackson have all praised our anthology, available for preorder now! @littlebadger.bsky.social
www.torreyhouse.org/product-page...
June 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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you can vote for my debut book now in the Reading the West Award for Poetry!🩵 readingthewest.com/35th-annual-...
May 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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VIVIDUS by Tierra Alysia (Pomo Band of Mission Indians)✨ modeled by me!
May 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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the LITERAL U.S. govt: sorry books and the arts and humanities and libraries arent important we're gonna fund tanning beds

native women: we just distributed 3k books by indigenous authors for free to native villages in alaska

ndngirlsbookclub.org
May 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Native-led nonprofit partners with Tlingit and Haida to bring free books to kids:

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Native-led nonprofit partners with Tlingit and Haida to bring free books to kids
Thousands of new books, many by Indigenous writers, are landing in the hands of kids across Southeast Alaska this month.
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May 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Indigenous fashion is front-page news. IKTR. and check out who's up there w/ Lauren Good Day.....

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Indigenous fashion week in Santa Fe, New Mexico, explores heritage in silk and hides
Fashion designers from across North America are bringing inspiration from their heritage, culture and everyday lives to three days of runway modeling starting Friday in a hub for Indigenous artistry a...
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May 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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humbly and excitedly, I can announce that if you enjoyed my book, you can now vote for my poetry collection, which has been shortlisted via the awards committee for the READING THE WEST Award in Poetry!

Voting ends May 31st via: readingthewest.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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DREAM PROJECT is live for preorder: boozhoo.binderybooks.com/item/GKWqy7f...
April 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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It’s got short stories. It’s got poetry. It’s got one of the coolest covers to hit the shelves. Stay tuned.
April 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Secret is out!! We have an anthology of INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS & FEMINISMS (stories & poems) coming out in November! Natalie Diaz is writing the foreword!
littlebadger.bsky.social Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · Apr 14
Kinsale Drake, Stacie Denetsosie, and I edited an annthology of INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS AND FEMINISMS. Cover reveal coming soon! The voices (writers and editors) are all women, two-spirit people, and/or people of marginalized genders. Most of them emerging.
April 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Kinsale Drake, Stacie Denetsosie, and I edited an annthology of INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS AND FEMINISMS. Cover reveal coming soon! The voices (writers and editors) are all women, two-spirit people, and/or people of marginalized genders. Most of them emerging.
April 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
found this issue of Poetry in Green Apple Books in San Francisco! Diné Poetics issue features all Diné poets, edited by Esther Belin!
April 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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i sold out of books at AWP at my press's booth😭😭. i'm doing my best to keep up with promoting my own work and it's hard but i'm so grateful for these moments!! i had the best time seeing all the writers i love and that keep me hopeful<3 thank you!
you can get a copy here: bit.ly/43HIgRE
April 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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happy bday to the homie @kinsaledrake.bsky.social y'all go follow her and NDN GIRLS BOOK CLUB but also get her recent poetry collection "the sky was once a dark blanket" i promise you won't be disappointed
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March 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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AWP, pay your Land Tax ! #awp Please share! tongva.land

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March 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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how I feel everydayyyy
February 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM