Love Songs, Odes, & Open Forms: Poetry Workshop with Kenzie Allen

Thu, April 10, 2025 6:30 PM - Thu, April 10, 2025 8:00 PM at MSU Mulitcultural Center, Multi-purpose Room B, 535 N. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI

Part of our Witness Remember Resist: A Spring Poetry Festival

Presented in part by MSU Native American Institute (NAI)

 

Please join us for this generative poetry workshop with Kenzie Allen. Supplies will be provided.

Registration required: click here to register.

Public parking is free after 6:00 p.m. in lot 38 (Erickson Hall, across Farm Lane from the MCC) and in lot 41 (across N. Shaw Lane from the MCC, just west of the Planetarium).

 

Kenzie Allen is the author of Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024). She is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist, and the recipient of a 92NY Discovery Prize, an inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, the 49th Parallel Award in poetry, broadside prizes from Sundress Publications and Littoral Press, and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Aspen Writers’ Foundation, and In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets). A finalist for the National Poetry Series, her poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, Boston Review, Narrative magazine, Poetry Daily, Best New Poets, and other venues. She is a first-generation descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.

Kenzie’s most recent project is a multimodal book of poetry and creative ethnography that incorporates intergenerational histories and diasporic movements, Haudenosaunee traditions, and archival materials of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School. She received her PhD in English & Creative Writing from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, her MFA in Poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and her BA in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at York University, where her research centers on documentary and visual poetics, literary cartography, and the enactment of Indigenous sovereignties through creative works.