Rachel Tzvia Back Poetry Lecture: Natalie Diaz

Poet Natalie Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and finalist for the National Book Award. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Diaz is Founding Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands. She was born on the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, CA, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe (Akimel O’odham).