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I see poetry, and writing, as a responsibility. Responsibility to what you are putting into the world, and to the people in that world.
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For your Native American Heritage Month reading pleasure, I am *very excited* to have a poem featured online and in print as part of the @AmPoetryReview Nov/Dec 2026 issue. “even the word extinction / can’t be / written in Oneida”
aprweb.org/poems/even-the…
aprweb.org/poems/even-the…
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This poem is a lipogram using only the 13 letters shared between English and Ukwehuwehnéha (Oneida language). It’s part of a series examining language suppression and Oneida/Haudenosaunee survivance. Here’s an audio reading of it.
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SO excited to be Poem-a-Day’s guest editor for November 2027! ✨
Twelve poets. A whole new year of discovery. Meet your 2027 Poem-a-Day Guest Editors! Your next favorite poet could be one poem away.
Learn more and sign up for free: poets.org/2027-poem-day-…
@morganapple @fitproblems @brownroundboi @mojgani @cerena @PoetEllenBass
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Great collection 💜 read Indigenous writers this Native American History Month (and every month)!
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we are proud to feature these nine works by notable Native writers.
narrativemagazine.com/great-stories/…
@cerena @SherwinBitsui @Morgan_J_Talty
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3rd trimester is really kicking my butt right now. Reminding myself: it’s a marathon, not a sprint — and collapsing before the finish line is not an option. 🫠
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Kenzie Allen 🌵 retweeted
I have a blog. It is not transgressive. It does, however, run a guest-writer series where authors list a top ten of literary works. There are two on the Russians and one on underground Persian poetry. You are welcome to dm about this. Links to your work would be included.
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Kenzie Allen 🌵 retweeted
.@BookshopSC is featuring Kenzie Allen @cerena, _Cloud Missives_!
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For MLA format, even in Canada, shorter works go in quotation marks, not italics... right? Or? 😭
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Kenzie Allen 🌵 retweeted
Beyonce has talked about this repeatedly over her career that NOBODY wants to be a beginner. Nobody wants to practice. Nobody wants to rehearse.
Editing my book is a process that literally almost killed me. But goddamn if it didnt create a great book.
Editing my book is a process that literally almost killed me. But goddamn if it didnt create a great book.
It’s okay for hard things to be hard. On the subject of AI and writing, I like the way George Saunders puts it:
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Gave this to my Advanced students today — I hope y’all can enjoy it too :) #poetry #writingprompts
The Intermediate Poetry students are out on a poetry scavenger hunt! If you’d like to try it, here’s the prompt!
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Do I bring my students Timbits because they deserve a little treat or because *I* deserve a little treat hmmmm
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Kenzie Allen 🌵 retweeted
the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers
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This is my favorite discourse. It's so revealing. Because writers who don't read are precisely that: people who stand on soapboxes. They are not part of a conversation. They just want to speak over everyone else. They want fame, to have written. Not the actual writer's life.
If I spent an entire week crafting a reply that would prove the point I was making in my original post, I wouldn’t come up with anything half this good. It takes TALENT to be this ridiculous. “Encouraging writers to read is ableist.” Remarkable. Truly remarkable.
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It looks like tenure & promotion season is upon us.
I’m totally calm. The wait is fine. It’s fine. 😭😭😭
I’m totally calm. The wait is fine. It’s fine. 😭😭😭
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Also I am a poet, I have no idea what I’m doing, plz just let me go live in the woods free of all this
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