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[Canceled] Natalie Diaz reads at PSU

May 6, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Free
Portland State University, Native American Student and Community Center,
Photo of poet Natalie Diaz.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU Now

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, CA. 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. Her secoSnd book, Postcolonial Love Poem, is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2020. Diaz is a Macarthur Foundation Fellow, Lannan Literary Fellow, and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as receiving a U.S. Artists Ford Fellowship and Princeton’s Hodder Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program.

Venue

Portland State University, Native American Student and Community Center

Organizer

PSU Creative Writing Program
Email:
eng@pdx.edu
Website:
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