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CANCELED Poetry Reading: Natalie Diaz

We regret to inform you that for unforeseen circumstances, the Natalie Diaz poetry reading scheduled for this evening is now canceled.
Thank you for interest in HRI programming.

Public poetry reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz.

Presented by the Humanities Research Institute and the Program in American Indian Studies. Cosponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.
Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press, and her second book, Postcolonial Love Poem, was published by Graywolf Press in March 2020. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow, as well as a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded the Princeton Holmes National Poetry Prize and a Hodder Fellowship. In 2021 she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the United States Artists, where she is an alumni of the Ford Fellowship. Diaz is Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.

If you will need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in an event, please contact Lydia Allen at allen7@illinois.edu. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.

Apr 7, 2022 07:30 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)