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*winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series*
*selected by Jacqueline Trimble*

*about kinsale ⊹ ࣪ ˖*

**Kinsale Drake** (Diné) is a 24-year-old poet/editor/playwright whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in *Poetry, Best New Poets, Poets.org,* *Poetry Northwest, The Slowdown, Black Warrior Review, Teen Vogue, MTV, NYLON, TIME, NPR*, and elsewhere. Her first book, *THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET* (University of Georgia Press, 2024), won the 2023 National Poetry Series. She teaches mental health and storytelling programming for Native youth as the director of NDN Girls Book Club.
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**This debut collection is a book of time, lineage, dreams, and all the cosmic beauty we hold in our 'language full of light.'**
*—Jake Skeets, author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers*
The ferocity of the push back against this cultural violence is equaled by the beauty of poems which are as astonishing as they are seductive, announcing Drake as a literary force and, in the words of her ‘Wax Cylinder,’ ‘a woman remembering her place among the stars.’
*—Jacqueline Allen Trimble, author of How to Survive the Apocalypse*

about the author

Kinsale has served as a National Student Poet, appointed by the Library of Congress and the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities. She is currently an inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow and the director of the literary nonprofit NDN Girls Book Club. Her debut collection, The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket (University of Georgia Press, 2024), won the 2023 National Poetry Series. She has previously won fellowships from Mellon Mays, Bucknell University June Poets, the Aspen Institute & Aspen Ideas Festival, First Peoples Fund, Girlfriend Collective, NDN Collective, Center for Native American Youth, and Vermont Studio Center. She is a Summer 2024 Tin House attendee.

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