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

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*about kinsale ⊹ ࣪ ˖*

**Kinsale Drake** (Diné) is a writer 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 and lives in Nashville, TN.
*Author photo by Anna Letson.*
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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 is an inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow and the director of the literary nonprofit NDN Girls Book Club. Her debut collection of poetry, The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket (University of Georgia Press, 2024), won the 2023 National Poetry Series. She has received fellowships from Mellon Mays, Bucknell University June Poets, the Aspen Institute & Aspen Ideas Festival, and more.

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