Natalie Diaz: A Reading and Conversation

Join us for a reading by Natalie Diaz followed by a conversation between the author and Brown University professor Macarena Gómez-Barris.

Free and open to the public. For questions or to request special services, accommodations, or assistance, please contact [email protected] or (401) 863-6120.

About the Speakers

Natalie Diaz is the author of two poetry collections, Post-Colonial Love Poem (Graywolf, 2020), winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, and When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). She has received many honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Mellon Fellowship, and a USA Fellowship. She 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. She is currently the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University, where she directs the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands.

Macarena Gómez-Barris is the Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and the director of the Center for Environmental Humanities at the Cogut Institute. She is author of At the Sea’s Edge (Duke University Press, forthcoming), Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (University of California Press, 2018), The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2017), and Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (University of California Press, 2009). She also co-edited Towards a Sociology of a Trace (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) with Herman Gray. She is series editor of Dissident Acts at Duke University Press with Diana Taylor.

This event is a part of the Greg and Julie Flynn Cogut Institute Speaker Series, which brings high-profile speakers in the humanities to the Brown University campus. Each visit includes a public lecture and a separate seminar-style meeting with undergraduate students.

Host or Publisher The Cogut Institute for the Humanities