Kinsale Drake | The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket

Join award-winning poet and playwright Kinsale Drake to read from and sign her debut poetry collection: The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket. Kinsale will be in conversation with local writer Stacie Denetsosie.

This event is free and open to the public but registration is required.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. You may also pre-order your signed copy of The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket to pick up at the event by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. If you cannot make this event, signed copies of The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket may be ordered from our website. Please specify in the comments if you would like your copy personalized. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy from The King's English.

About the book:

The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and the natural world, land, pop culture, twentieth-century music, and multi-generational representations. Oscillating between musical influences, including the repercussions of ethnomusicology, and the present/past/future, the collection rewrites and rerights what it means to be Indigenous, queer, and even formerly-emo in the twenty-first century.

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