Natalie Diaz
Natalie Diaz’s first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press), was published in 2012. She has been a Mac-Arthur Fellow and a Lannan Literary Fellow and has been awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation residency, and a United States Artists Fellowship. Her book Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press) won a 2021 Pulitzer Prize.
Poem: ‘Postcolonial Love Poem’
The powerful images in the titular poem in Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem, the February selection of the California Book Club, set the atmosphere and the concerns that the collection, as a whole, will explore.
Rules of Verse: The Practice of Poetry
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natalie Diaz explores the power of language and images in her work.