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# Kenzie Allen

poet & multimodal artist

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://kenzieallen.co/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [Writings](https://kenzieallen.co/writings/)
- [How to Format A Table of Contents in Word](https://kenzieallen.co/how-to-format-a-table-of-contents-in-word/) - If you're struggling with formatting a contents page for your manuscript and keeping it up to date, here's my current method for creating an Automatic Table of Contents in Word. There are also tips for moving individual pieces around and keeping the contents page up to date with a few steps, and, bonus, the document will be easily navigable as an outline through
- [Dear White America: Please Stop Asking To Eat My Brains.](https://kenzieallen.co/re-your-brains/)
- [MFA Years Introduction: Poetry as Practiced, Magickal Ritual](https://kenzieallen.co/mfa-years-introduction-poetry-as-practiced-magickal-ritual/) - My first post went live yesterday over at The MFA Years, a blog and website featuring creative writing program graduate students talking about their experiences with academia and literature. I'll be contributing as a first-year PhD student, and I posted about settling into Milwaukee, dissertation-brain, and how the magic happens. Check it out here >>.
- [Velkommen til Norge](https://kenzieallen.co/velkommen-til-norge/) - I moved to Trondheim, Norway, a month ago, to live with my fiancé. It's just about the last place on earth I imagined I would end up.

## Pages

- [](https://kenzieallen.co/) - // poet, ui/ux designer, photographer
- [Work](https://kenzieallen.co/work/) - books Cloud Missives, debut poetry collection (Tin House, August 20, 2024). poems “Elegy with Open Return,” forthcoming in Zócalo Public Square. “Elegy against Elegy,” reprint forthcoming in Best Spiritual Literature 2025 (vol. 10), from Orison Books. “In Our Long Walk, My People Came on Ships (I),” reprint forthcoming in the On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great
- [Contact](https://kenzieallen.co/contact/) - follow along at instagram | twitter | bluesky for Cloud Missives inquiries, please contact Tin House for events & all other inquiries, please contact: getkenzieallen(at)gmail(dot)com Speaking & presentation topics include: visual/multimodal writing, storytelling, poetry and poetics, digital writing/publishing, Indigenous creative works, memoir & creative ethnography, preparing applications to graduate programs, and more. Dr. Allen is
- [bio](https://kenzieallen.co/about/) - Kenzie Allen is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist. Her first book of poetry, Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024), was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the CLMP Firecracker Awards, the Indigenous Voices Awards, and the Maya Angelou Book Award, and was long listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Allen is the
- [Cloud Missives](https://kenzieallen.co/cloud-missives/) - a debut poetry collection by Kenzie Allen forthcoming from Tin House Books on August 20, 2024
- [Events](https://kenzieallen.co/events/) - upcoming events listing for poet Kenzie Allen
- [Experience](https://kenzieallen.co/experience/) - current teaching July 2020 - present - Assistant Professor of English (Indigenous Literatures / Creative Writing), Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University. Fall/Winter 2025-2026: GS/EN 6777: Transformations & Multimodalities: Writing in the Expanded Field (graduate course); AP/CRW 4620: Senior Poetry Workshop Winter 2025 - GS/EN 6776: Graduate Poetry Workshop: Contemporary Poetry &
- [Projects](https://kenzieallen.co/projects/) - Portfolio of multimodal projects of poets and artist Kenzie Allen
- [selected poems](https://kenzieallen.co/selected-poems/) - "Love Song for the End of Us." Poetry Daily, November 22, 2024.* ”Love Song to the Alpacas of Solomon Lane,” “In Which I Become (Earth Mother),” and “Elegy against Elegy.” The Adroit Journal, Issue 49, April 2024.* "Even the word Oneida / can't be written in Oneida." Bellingham Review in Spring 2023, as winner of the
- [Previous Events](https://kenzieallen.co/archived-events/) - 2024 January 9 » Poets in Play featuring Kenzie Allen + open mic (Virtual, 7-9pm). Sponsored by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. February 8 » Kansas City, MO; AWP: “In Praise of Legacy: Writers of Color and the Challenge of the Canon” panel with Nathan McClain, Rita Banerjee, and Enzo Silon Surin,
- [Poetry Craft Crash Course](https://kenzieallen.co/workshops/craftcrashcourse/)

## Bio Links

- [Links](https://kenzieallen.co/links/)

## Projects

- ["McKenzie River Ranger District"](https://kenzieallen.co/portfolio/mckenzie-river-ranger-district/) - a Google Maps poem
- ["810 Road"](https://kenzieallen.co/portfolio/810-road-a-vr-poem/) - "virtual reality" poem
- ["Indian Country" & "109 Bermuda" - concrete poems](https://kenzieallen.co/portfolio/indian-country-109-bermuda-concrete-poems/) - I've been working on a series of concrete poems as part of my Wampum manuscript. This also includes the "Longhouse" poem that was turned into an installation in 2023. "Indian Country" "109 Bermuda" As mentioned at Poets.org, "I believe in poetry’s capacity to make and remake the world. I wanted to use the structure of
- ["Ask Me How it Happened" - Embodied Poem (excerpts)](https://kenzieallen.co/portfolio/ask-me-how-it-happened-embodied-poem-excerpts/) - Each line of the poem was written on portions of my body, mapping the origins of scars, photographed, and then worn throughout the day as I made my way through the city.
- ["Longhouse" - concrete poem installation](https://kenzieallen.co/portfolio/longhouse-concrete-poem-installation/) - A calligrammatic poem using the concept of contour drawing (one continuous line where the pencil does not lift off the page until the drawing is complete), concrete poetry, and anaphora ("we build it, we build the longhouse, we build the longhouse as our ancestors have done") as means of place-making. The central fire of the
- ["He Is Of It" - Treated Book (Longfellow's Hiawatha)](https://kenzieallen.co/portfolio/he-is-of-it-treated-book-longfellows-hiawatha/) - I've been at work on a treated book-length copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha. Hiawatha was a story I read as a child (an updated illustrated version in my mother's home). The story of Hiawatha is Iroquoian, but many of the images and ideas drawn upon by Longfellow were of Anishinaabe cultures. So I'm revisiting the book

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://kenzieallen.co/topics/uncategorized/)
- [Life](https://kenzieallen.co/topics/life/)
- [Writing](https://kenzieallen.co/topics/writing/)
- [Norway](https://kenzieallen.co/topics/life/norway/)

## Project Types

- [Visual Poetics](https://kenzieallen.co/project-type/visual-poetics/)
- [Transmedia](https://kenzieallen.co/project-type/transmedia/)
- [Installation](https://kenzieallen.co/project-type/installation/)
- [Geolocated / Geocollaborative](https://kenzieallen.co/project-type/geolocated-geocollaborative/)