June
19
@ 12:00 pm
PST
Michael Kabotie Lecture Series: Kinsale Drake (Diné)
June 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PDT
Free
The Native American Arts Festival Week presents its annual Michael Kabotie Lecture Series. This year’s guest lecturers are Indigenous folks who are making positive change in their communities and beyond in their fields that are outside of visual arts.
Kinsale Drake is a Diné poet/editor/playwright whose work has appeared in Poetry, Best New Poets, Poets.org, Poetry Northwest, The Slowdown, Black Warrior Review, The Adroit Journal, Poetry Online, Yale Literary Magazine, TIME, NPR, MTV, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET (University of Georgia Press, 2024), won the 2023 National Poetry Series. She is the Director of the Ndn Girls Book Club, a nonprofit organization that promotes Indigenous literature on every level.
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