Kenzie Allen

poet & multimodal artist

Kenzie Allen

Project Type: Visual Poetics

“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

“He Is Of It” – Treated Book (Longfellow’s 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