Danielle Beazer Dubrasky is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Southern Utah University. "Ruin and Light" won the 2014 Anabiosis Press Chapbook Competition. Her poetry has also been published in Contrary Magazine, Sugar House Review, ECOllective, Tar River Poetry, Weber Studies, CityArts, and Petroglyph. She is also a two-time recipient of the Utah Arts Council first place award in poetry. She grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, but has spent the last 20 years in southern Utah.
I have long been acquainted with Nancy Takacs’ poetry through her beautiful chapbooks. Thus, it was a pleasure to read so many of her poems in her latest collection, Blue Patina, published by Blue Begonia Press. In these poems, I continue to see how deeply the natural world […]
