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Kenzie Allen

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Department of English

Assistant Professor

Office: 642 Atkinson
Phone: 416-736-5166 Ext: 22146
Email: dmallen@yorku.ca
Primary website: Website & Portfolio


Kenzie Allen is a poet and multimodal artist. Her research centers on documentary and visual poetics, literary cartography, and the enactment of Indigenous sovereignties through creative works. A descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, her most recent project is a multimodal book of poetry which incorporates intergenerational histories and diasporic movements, Haudenosaunee traditions, and archival materials of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, her poems can be found in Poetry magazine, Boston Review, Narrative Magazine, Best New Poets, and other venues, and she is the recipient of a 92NY Discovery Prize, an inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, the 49th Parallel Award in Poetry, and the Littoral Press Prize.

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Degrees

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MFA, University of Michigan
BA, Washington University in St. Louis

Appointments

Faculty of Graduate Studies
  • 92 Street Y Discovery Contest Winner - 2021
  • James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets - 2021
  • 49th Parallel Poetry Award - 2022
  • Littoral Press Poetry Prize - 2014

Current Research Projects

The Poet as Ethnographer, Artist, and Enemy of the State

    Summary:

    A survey of documentary poetics, focusing on representation and artifice, archives and inventions, and methods and impacts.

    Description:

    Considering techniques such as counterforensics, code-switching, and formal presentation, this essay series examines the documentary poet in their various roles as cultural interlocutor, imaginative interpreter, and activist.

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Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall/Winter 2022 AP/CWR2600 6.0 C Introduction to Creative Writing SEMR
Fall/Winter 2022 AP/CWR3620 6.0 A Intermediate Poetry Workshop SEMR
Winter 2023 GS/EN6777 3.0 M Multimodal Writing SEMR



Kenzie Allen is a poet and multimodal artist. Her research centers on documentary and visual poetics, literary cartography, and the enactment of Indigenous sovereignties through creative works. A descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, her most recent project is a multimodal book of poetry which incorporates intergenerational histories and diasporic movements, Haudenosaunee traditions, and archival materials of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, her poems can be found in Poetry magazine, Boston Review, Narrative Magazine, Best New Poets, and other venues, and she is the recipient of a 92NY Discovery Prize, an inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, the 49th Parallel Award in Poetry, and the Littoral Press Prize.

Degrees

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MFA, University of Michigan
BA, Washington University in St. Louis

Appointments

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Awards

  • 92 Street Y Discovery Contest Winner - 2021
  • James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets - 2021
  • 49th Parallel Poetry Award - 2022
  • Littoral Press Poetry Prize - 2014

Current Research Projects

The Poet as Ethnographer, Artist, and Enemy of the State

    Summary:

    A survey of documentary poetics, focusing on representation and artifice, archives and inventions, and methods and impacts.

    Description:

    Considering techniques such as counterforensics, code-switching, and formal presentation, this essay series examines the documentary poet in their various roles as cultural interlocutor, imaginative interpreter, and activist.


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall/Winter 2022 AP/CWR2600 6.0 C Introduction to Creative Writing SEMR
Fall/Winter 2022 AP/CWR3620 6.0 A Intermediate Poetry Workshop SEMR
Winter 2023 GS/EN6777 3.0 M Multimodal Writing SEMR