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⋆。°✩Kinsale Drake⋆。°✩
@kinsaledrake.bsky.social
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 ⋆。°✩
Darcie Little Badger and Stacie Denetsosie mwahahha
December 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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They banned Elatsoe in Florida 😭 My mystery about a girl and her ghost dog!!!
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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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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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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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Beautiful.

Laugh in ᏣᎳᎩ is ᎤᏰᏣᏍᎬ (uyetsasgv)

#poetry #booksky
February 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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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
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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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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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
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
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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Peach thinks it’s neat
September 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD got a starred review in Publishers Weekly!!!! INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS!!!!
September 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 30/31

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

www.instagram.com/p/DOAo6BJjnp...

🙏🏻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
August 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
July 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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COVER REVEAL!!! Our anthology of Indigenous Futurisms <3333
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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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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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
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
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
VIVIDUS by Tierra Alysia (Pomo Band of Mission Indians)✨ modeled by me!
May 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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
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
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