On February 21, NAISI welcomes Diné poet, playwrite, and proformer Kinsale Drake to discuss her newest 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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Learn more about Kinsale Drake on her website here.