Poetry Reading with Natalie Diaz

Natalie Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe (Akimel O’odham). She is author of the poetry collections When My Brother Was an Aztec (winner of an American Book Award) and Postcolonial Love Poem (winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and finalist for the National Book Award). A MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Lannan Literary Foundation Fellow, and a Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellow, Diaz was elected the youngest ever Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Sponsored by the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, Department of Literatures in English / Creative Writing Program and the Indigeneity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Initiative