KINSALE DRAKE
Photograph by Sydney Holmes
Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series for her debut poetry collection THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET (University of Georgia Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Nylon, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere. She is the director of NDN Girls Book Club, a literary nonprofit for Indigenous peoples.
How many lives
can I hold in each chamber
of my heart?
I started writing as a young teenager because poetry was the most cohesive, most thoughtful way for me to understand my existence, mostly in the context of my intersecting identities.
July 14, 2024