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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · Sep 19

Actress Amber Midthunder, best known for NOVOCAINE (2025) and PREY (2022), gives her reading recs: www.instagram.com/p/DOyOrbfDSO...

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⋆｡°✩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...

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · Sep 17

Peach thinks it’s neat

A pug cuddled in a white blanket looks at an image of Beyond the Glittering World

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · Sep 17

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.)”

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Diana A @dianalog.bsky.social · Aug 31

#SealeyChallenge 30/31

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

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[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

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · Jul 6

It’s keeping me going😭😭

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · Jun 6

COVER REVEAL!!! Our anthology of Indigenous Futurisms <3333

⋆｡°✩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...

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · Jun 6

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⋆｡°✩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...

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Johnny Cordova @johnnycordova.bsky.social · Jun 9

I don’t know what YOU need but I really liked Kinsale Drake’s The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket.

@kinsaledrake.bsky.social

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⋆｡°✩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...

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · May 28

you can vote for my debut book now in the Reading the West Award for Poetry!🩵 readingthewest.com/35th-annual-...

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · May 28

VIVIDUS by Tierra Alysia (Pomo Band of Mission Indians)✨ modeled by me!

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · May 26

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

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · May 19

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

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · May 12

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

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · May 1

humbly and excitedly, I can announce that if you enjoyed my book, you can now vote for my poetry collection, which has been shortlisted via the awards committee for the READING THE WEST Award in Poetry!

Voting ends May 31st via: readingthewest.com

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · Apr 23

DREAM PROJECT is live for preorder: boozhoo.binderybooks.com/item/GKWqy7f...

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · Apr 14

its just personified

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · Apr 14

FOREWORD. y'all my eyes hurt

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · Apr 14

It’s got short stories. It’s got poetry. It’s got one of the coolest covers to hit the shelves. Stay tuned.

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · Apr 14

AND THE ABSOLUTE LEGEND NATALIE DIAZ IS WRITING THE FOREWARD

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · Apr 14

Secret is out!! We have an anthology of INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS & FEMINISMS (stories & poems) coming out in November! Natalie Diaz is writing the foreword!

Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · Apr 14

Kinsale Drake, Stacie Denetsosie, and I edited an annthology of INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS AND FEMINISMS. Cover reveal coming soon! The voices (writers and editors) are all women, two-spirit people, and/or people of marginalized genders. Most of them emerging.

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · Apr 14

Kinsale Drake, Stacie Denetsosie, and I edited an annthology of INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS AND FEMINISMS. Cover reveal coming soon! The voices (writers and editors) are all women, two-spirit people, and/or people of marginalized genders. Most of them emerging.

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⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩ @kinsaledrake.bsky.social · Apr 7

found this issue of Poetry in Green Apple Books in San Francisco! Diné Poetics issue features all Diné poets, edited by Esther Belin!

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