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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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kinsaledrake.bsky.social
I really hope Remaining Native gets on the Oscars list

www.remainingnativedocumentary.com
HOME | Remaining Native Doc
Remaining Native is a coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the ...
www.remainingnativedocumentary.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
Darcie Little Badger and Stacie Denetsosie mwahahha
December 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
They banned Elatsoe in Florida 😭 My mystery about a girl and her ghost dog!!!
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
WOW!
After raising complaints across platforms following our response to Weber State University's list of "banned" concepts, Weber State is reconsidering its Anti-DEI policy w/ speakers:
HUGE props to Darcie who pulled out to raise awareness & got media's attention:
www.sltrib.com/.../weber-st...
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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msmamabee.bsky.social
Nicole Cardoza at Reimagined turns to "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler and poetry by Kinsale Drake (Diné ) to find opportunity for regenerative change after a blaze.

She also has a list of organizations and mutual aid groups in Los Angeles.

antiracismdaily.beehiiv.com/p/what-to-do...
What to do when the world is on fire.
Taking action for LA and caring for ourselves and others.
antiracismdaily.beehiiv.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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ugapress.bsky.social
Read the poetry collection by Kinsale Drake that Only Poems says enacts the "hope and promise of reciprocity"

The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket is available now at https://www.ugapress.org/9780820367309/the-sky-was-once-a-dark-blanket/

#ugapress #bookreview #poetry
August 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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amandamakepeace.bsky.social
Beautiful.

Laugh in ᏣᎳᎩ is ᎤᏰᏣᏍᎬ (uyetsasgv)

#poetry #booksky
From “Ancestors’ wildest dreams” by Kinsale Drake in The Sky was Once a Dark Blanket
February 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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ndntacocat.bsky.social
NDN Girls Book Club is so powerful, they distribute truckloads of books to tribal communities, they have merch, they have workshops, they are also authors & poets & do queen shit in their own right individually. Best book club tbh
kinsaledrake.bsky.social ⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · Sep 19
NDN Girls Book Club, which distributes free books to tribal communities, was featured in PBS: tn.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ysu...
September 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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roseknapp.bsky.social
The Sky Was Once A Dark Blanket by @kinsaledrake.bsky.social @ugapress.bsky.social

#poetry
October 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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triohousepress.org
On November 1, submissions open for our Trio Award & Bogan Award! We are honored to have @kinsaledrake.bsky.social and January Gill O’Neil as our judges. Click the link to our Substack to learn more about them! open.substack.com/pub/triohous...
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
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
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
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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littlebadger.bsky.social
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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littlebadger.bsky.social
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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dianalog.bsky.social
#SealeyChallenge 30/31

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

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🙏🏻sponsor me (name: dianalogbooks) — docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... — or donate direct — open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea... — to #FeedGaza
[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
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
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
www.torreyhouse.org/product-page...
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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johnnycordova.bsky.social
I don’t know what YOU need but I really liked Kinsale Drake’s The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket.

@kinsaledrake.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
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
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
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
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
VIVIDUS by Tierra Alysia (Pomo Band of Mission Indians)✨ modeled by me!
May 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
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
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
Native-led nonprofit partners with Tlingit and Haida to bring free books to kids:

alaskapublic.org/news/educati...
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.
alaskapublic.org
May 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
kinsaledrake.bsky.social
Indigenous fashion is front-page news. IKTR. and check out who's up there w/ Lauren Good Day.....

apnews.com/article/nati...
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...
apnews.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM