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Dates Tue, Jun 8, 2027 at 7:30pm
Venue Folger Theatre
Tickets $20
Duration 60 minutes
Please note: Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.
The Folger Poetry season concludes with a finale reading by a poet chosen by the Folger Poetry Advisory Council. The evening’s honored guest will be Pulitzer Prize–winning Mojave American poet Natalie Diaz (Postcolonial Love Poem, When My Brother Was an Aztec). A dynamic and celebrated poet, scholar, and activist, Diaz will read from the work of other poets cited as her literary influences as well as from her own acclaimed work.
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About the poet
Natalie Diaz
Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She earned a BA from Old Dominion University, where she received a full athletic scholarship. Diaz played professional basketball in Europe and Asia before returning to Old Dominion to earn an MFA. She is the author of the poetry collections Postcolonial Love Poem (2020), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), which New York Times reviewer Eric McHenry described as an “ambitious … beautiful book.” Her other honors and awards include the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from Bread Loaf, the Narrative Poetry Prize, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship.