Kenzie Allen 🌵

I see poetry, and writing, as a responsibility. Responsibility to what you are putting into the world, and to the people in that world.

TFW you find your start into the weirdest poem right before you're due to start class 🫠

Do I bring my students Timbits because they deserve a little treat or because *I* deserve a little treat hmmmm

It’s past the Dean’s office, now, so there’s that.

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

@dajmeyer Thanks, friend <3

@cerena Your book was published and you have dozens of poems published in the last couple of years -- you unquestionably deserve tenure. I'm sure you will get it!

It looks like tenure & promotion season is upon us. I’m totally calm. The wait is fine. It’s fine. 😭😭😭

Another unforeseen consequence of the phrase “research creation”

Also I am a poet, I have no idea what I’m doing, plz just let me go live in the woods free of all this

why do peer reviews come at the worst possible time in one’s workload

Applications for the Oregon Summer Workshop due TODAY! Today is the last day to apply to the 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop. Here you will find amazing new writing community, improved craft, and much more! ⁠ Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summer-…

@dajmeyer It is written the way it is for a reason.

@mccormack_wc @cerena I think you mean “indigenous (women or non-binary) writers”.

We are once again honored to partner with our friends at The Carol Shields Prize in offering an Oregon Summer Workshop Scholarship for Indigenous Women and Non-Binary writers. Applications close this Monday (February 9th)! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summer-…

.@ONArtsCouncil empowers artists across Ontario, including @chrismckhool, whose @TheJUNOAwards-nominated "Little Leaf" celebrates children’s music. The council has also invested in the creative practices of @andreammscott, @cerena, and @Frankntoad.

cc: thank you also to @KingaSurmaMPP for your continued support of the arts

Thank you to @TheSchooner, @radarpoetry, and @writehedgebrook for their support of this work ❤️

So thrilled that my manuscript-in-progress, VERPESYK, has received a literary creation project grant from @ONArtsCouncil 🎉❤️ Thank you, OAC! — #ArtsAddValue

"refuse to obey"

@SorryMomDotGov Missouri as “zoo” and I’m just like YEAUP absolutely