July 14, 2024

Kinsale Drake

John Doe is a passionate poet whose work explores the depths of human emotion and experience.

Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series for her debut poetry collection THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET (University of Georgia Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Nylon, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere. She is the director of NDN Girls Book Club, a literary nonprofit for Indigenous peoples.

How many lives

can I hold in each chamber

of my heart?

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I started writing as a young teenager because poetry was the most cohesive, most thoughtful way for me to understand my existence, mostly in the context of my intersecting identities.

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