WSU’s Visiting Writers Series, and Common Reading Program welcome: Pulitzer prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz
About the event
WSU, the Common Reading Program, and the Visiting Writers Series welcome Pulitzer Prize- winning poet Natalie Diaz for a reading. Diaz’s poem, “American Arithmetic,” appears as a selection in this year’s common reading book, Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, that is being used in first-year and other courses this year. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2021.
About the poet
Diaz identifies as Mohave American and is a poet, author, language activist, former professional basketball player, and educator. She is enrolled in the Gila River Indian Community and identifies as Akimel O’odham. She is an associate professor at Arizona State University.
Co-hosting this reading is the Common Reading Program, part of the Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement (DAESA) in the provost’s office, and the Visiting Writers Series, part of the Dept. of English in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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