Today's poem is
"How to be born in a country that measures your blood in their hands:"
from The Cincinnati Review
®
Today's poem is
"How to be born in a country that measures your blood in their hands:"
from The Cincinnati Review
Kinsale Drake
(Diné) is a poet, playwright, and performer based out of the Southwest. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Nylon, MTV, Teen Vogue, Time, and elsewhere. She recently graduated from Yale University, where she received the J. Edgar Meeker Prize, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, the Young Native Playwrights Award, and the 2022 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. She is the founder of NDN Girls Book Club.
Other poems on the web by Kinsale Drake:
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Sound of Under-Water"
"Blacklist Me"
"Wax Cylinder"
Kinsale Drake's Website.
Kinsale Drake on Twitter.
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