Poet & Prof @ YorkU. CLOUD MISSIVES ☁️💌 (@Tin_House 2024). PhD. Oneida of WI 🐢. Art, design, anthropology, opera.
Joined September 2008
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16 May 2016
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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Apr 11
For MLA format, even in Canada, shorter works go in quotation marks, not italics... right? Or? 😭
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Mar 27
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.
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
16 Mar 2023
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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Mar 19
TFW you find your start into the weirdest poem right before you're due to start class 🫠
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Mar 19
Do I bring my students Timbits because they deserve a little treat or because *I* deserve a little treat hmmmm
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Mar 12
It’s past the Dean’s office, now, so there’s that.
Feb 20
It looks like tenure & promotion season is upon us.
I’m totally calm. The wait is fine. It’s fine. 😭😭😭
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the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers
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Feb 20
It looks like tenure & promotion season is upon us.
I’m totally calm. The wait is fine. It’s fine. 😭😭😭
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Feb 10
why do peer reviews come at the worst possible time in one’s workload
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Feb 10
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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Applications for the Oregon Summer Workshop due TODAY!
Today is the last day to apply to the 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop. Here you will find amazing new writing community, improved craft, and much more!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/o…
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We are once again honored to partner with our friends at The Carol Shields Prize in offering an Oregon Summer Workshop Scholarship for Indigenous Women and Non-Binary writers.
Applications close this Monday (February 9th)!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/o…
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Jan 30
.@ONArtsCouncil empowers artists across Ontario, including @chrismckhool, whose @TheJUNOAwards-nominated "Little Leaf" celebrates children’s music. The council has also invested in the creative practices of @andreammscott, @cerena, and @Frankntoad.
Happy New Year! 🎉
Explore OAC’s 2026 program deadlines: ow.ly/ewn150XQPAQ
Here’s to a year of arts and inspiration!
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Bonne année! 🎉
Découvrez les dates limites des programmes du CAO pour 2026 : ow.ly/oie350XQPAP
À une année d’arts et d’inspiration!
ALT English: Child holding a glowing, colorful heart-shaped light. Text reads: “Grant program deadlines 2026.” --- Français : Un enfant tenant un cœur lumineux coloré. Texte : « Dates limites des programmes de subvention 2026 ».
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Jan 29
So thrilled that my manuscript-in-progress, VERPESYK, has received a literary creation project grant from @ONArtsCouncil 🎉❤️ Thank you, OAC!
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ALT Poster for Verpesyk, a book of poetry / memoir-in-verse, having received a literary creation grant from Ontario Arts Council. Pictured is author Kenzie Allen, a brown-haired Oneida woman wearing a beaded necklace and floral shirt, along with a picture of a bunch of hens behind a chicken wire fence
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