Featuring a folio on “The More-Than-Human World” from Guest Editor Kenzie Allen
From the Guest Editor’s Note:
In this folio, I looked toward the nature of the relationships between our more than human world and us, and the more than human world on its own. And however much this may be possible, for the more than human world to be framing our human conception, rather than the other way around. If I could have, I’d have made this folio twice as long—that was the quality of the work we received. Thank you to all who shared their work with us.
The poems included here sing love songs to a broad menagerie. It feels like a Thanksgiving Address all its own, and I encourage you, as you are reading and as you make your way in the world, to lead with gratitude, encouragement, ecological responsibility, and deep attention.
Kenzie Allen is an Assistant Professor of English at York University, specializing in Creative Writing and Indigenous Literatures. 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.
Kenzie is the author of Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024), which was a finalist for the 2022 National Poetry Series and longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award. Kenzie is the recipient of a 92NY Discovery / Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize, a James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets from Poetry Northwest, the 49th Parallel Award in poetry from Bellingham Review, broadside prizes from Littoral Press and Sundress Publications, grants from Ontario Arts Council, and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Aspen Summer Words, and Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po). Her poems can be found in Poetry magazine, The Iowa Review, Narrative magazine, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Best New Poets and other venues.
Deidra Greenleaf Allan ● Christine Barkley ● Kimberly Blaeser ● Clara Burghelea ● Yosa Buson ● Josh Calladine ● Lauren Camp ● Todd Campbell ● MICHAEL CHANG ● Cortney Lamar Charleston ● Jo Blair Cipriano ● Melissa Crowe ● Monica Cure ● Emerson Dawes ● Gregory Djanikian ● Asa Drake ● Kinsale Drake ● Meg Eden ● Luke Eldredge ● Sarah Ellis ● Joshua Gage ● Gabriella Garcia ● Brandi George ● Jana-Lee Germaine ● Jessica Goodfellow ● Justin Groppuso-Cook ● Claire Hermann ● Victor Hugo ● John James ● Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong ● Kang Jijaedang ● W. Todd Kaneko ● Elina Katrin ● Patrick Kindig ● BEE LB ● Suphil Lee Park ● Ștefan Manasia ● Kaecey McCormick ● Rachel Morgan ● Maureen Morris ● Cindy Juyoung Ok ● Kyle Okeke ● Elise Paschen ● Natalie Perman ● Lizzy 柯 (Ke) Polishan ● Jessica Nirvana Ram ● Rainer Maria Rilke ● Arthur Rimbaud ● Sally Rosen Kindred ● Henk Rossouw ● Amanda Maret Scharf ● Andrej Stankovič ● Sarah Anne Stinnett ● Jennifer K. Sweeney ● Julene Waffle ● Maggie Wang ● Danielle Weeks ● Katherine J. Williams ● Matthew Wimberley ● Terri Witek ● Allya Yourish