Award-winning Poets Kenzie Allen & Urayoán Noel are visiting Stetson as part of the MFA’s visiting artist series to provide insight into their work during this evening reading & performance.
Kenzie Allen is the author of Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024). She is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist, and the recipient of a 92NY Discovery Prize, an inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, the 49th Parallel Award in poetry, broadside prizes from Sundress Publications and Littoral Press, and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Aspen Writers’ Foundation, and In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets). A finalist for the National Poetry Series, her poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, Boston Review, Narrative magazine, Poetry Daily, Best New Poets, and other venues. Kenzie is an Assistant Professor of English at York University, where her research centers on documentary and visual poetics, literary cartography, and the enactment of Indigenous sovereignties through creative works. She is a first-generation descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.
Urayoán Noel is the author of eight books of poetry--most recently Transversal (Arizona 2021), named a book of the year by the New York Public Library and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award--and of the critical study of Nuyorican poetry In Visible Movement (Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latino Studies Book Prize. A finalist for the National Translation Award and the Best Translated Book Award, his most recent translation is Nicole Cecilia Delgado's adjacent islands/islas adyacentes (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Noel has been a fellow and faculty of CantoMundo and the Macondo Writers Workshop and has also received
fellowships from the Mellon, Ford, and Howard Foundations. Forthcoming from La Impresora in Puerto Rico is his hybrid prose text Cuaderno de Isabela / Isabela Notebook. Noel's visual work has been published in the New York Times and exhibited in museums and art spaces in New York and Puerto Rico as well as at Poesiefestival Berlin and is included in collections of Latin American and Latinx electronic literature. He lives in the Bronx and is Director of Graduate Studies for NYU's MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish.
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