Kenzie Allen 🌵

Poet & Prof @ YorkU. CLOUD MISSIVES ☁️💌 (@Tin_House 2024). PhD. Oneida of WI 🐢. Art, design, anthropology, opera.

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

I see poetry, and writing, as a responsibility. Responsibility to what you are putting into the world, and to the people in that world.

[David Meyer @dajmeyer]

Spotted in the wild: _Cloud Missives_ by @cerena at @warwicksbooks in #LaJolla, California!

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

Hurra for 17.mai! Gratulerer med dagen!

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

@kudera Thanks for this! I think I just have some students who may not have gotten the memo. I do have enough who do it correctly when asked for MLA format, such that I think it’s probably just a point of confusion having to do with other writing formats/British style elsewhere.

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

For MLA format, even in Canada, shorter works go in quotation marks, not italics... right? Or? 😭

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

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.

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

Gave this to my Advanced students today — I hope y’all can enjoy it too :) #poetry #writingprompts

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

The Intermediate Poetry students are out on a poetry scavenger hunt! If you’d like to try it, here’s the prompt!

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

TFW you find your start into the weirdest poem right before you're due to start class 🫠

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

Do I bring my students Timbits because they deserve a little treat or because *I* deserve a little treat hmmmm

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

It’s past the Dean’s office, now, so there’s that.

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

It looks like tenure & promotion season is upon us.

I’m totally calm. The wait is fine. It’s fine. 😭😭😭

[Sam Rosenfeld @sam_rosenfeld]

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

@dajmeyer Thanks, friend <3

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

It looks like tenure & promotion season is upon us.

I’m totally calm. The wait is fine. It’s fine. 😭😭😭

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

Another unforeseen consequence of the phrase “research creation”

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

why do peer reviews come at the worst possible time in one’s workload

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

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

[McCormack Writing Center @mccormack_wc]

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: https://t.co/cMhlJkmS0O

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

@dajmeyer It is written the way it is for a reason.

[McCormack Writing Center @mccormack_wc]

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: https://t.co/cMhlJkmkbg