Oct 19 2022
Writing about Place with Danielle Dubrasky and John Belk

Writing about Place with Danielle Dubrasky and John Belk

Presented by Utah Humanities at Southern Utah University

Join us for a conversation about Writing about Place with Danielle Dubrasky and John Belk. Danielle Beazer Dubrasky is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Drift Migration (Ashland Poetry Press, 2021), the chapbook Ruin and Light (Anabiosis Press, 2015), and the limited-edition/letterpress art book Invisible Shores (Red Butte Press/University of Utah, 2017). She also co-edited, with Karin Anderson, the Torrey House Press anthology Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild in 2021. Her poems have been published in Terrain.org, Pilgrimage, Sugar House Review, Salt Front, Cave Wall, Contrary Magazine, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. Her essay, “Juliet,” won the 2020 Mississippi Review Nonfiction Prize. John Belk is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Utah University and author of the chapbook The Weathering of Igneous Rockforms in High-Altitude Riparian Environments (Cathexis Northwest, 2020). His poems have recently appeared in Jet Fuel Review, The Maine Review, The Fourth River, poems2go, Sugar House Review, Salt Hill, Poetry South, Crab Orchard Review, and Sport Literate among others. He is also a researcher whose scholarship examines the historical ways poetry has helped create social change. His articles can be found in Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Composition Forum, and edited anthologies. John holds degrees in English and History from Texas A&M University and received his M.F.A. in Poetry and Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Pennsylvania State University. He lives in Cedar City, Utah. This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and SUU.

Dates & Times

2022/10/19 - 2022/10/19

Location Info

Southern Utah University

351 West University Boulevard, Cedar City, UT 84720