2022 Common Reading Experience author, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz Community Discussion

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Several events in April are planned for dialogue around Diaz’s 2021 prizewinning collection of poetry, Postcolonial Love Poem.

A Community Book Discussion will be hosted at the Durango Public Library on Tuesday, April 5 at 6 p.m. Postcolonial Love Poem can be purchased at Maria’s Bookshop or other retailers. This community-wide conversation will be led by FLC faculty in the English Department and is generously supported by Kathleen Adams and Richard Ballantine.

Diaz will visit Fort Lewis College on Tuesday, April 12 for two events: a student-focused Q&A session at 1 p.m. in the Vallecito Room in the Student Union, followed that evening by a public reading and book signing at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. These events are made possible by funding from the Zeller Natural Pathways Foundation. Register to attend at fortlewis.edu/skywords/diaz.

A SkyWords Student Creative Writing open mic reading will be held Thursday, April 14 at 4 p.m. at the FLC Busby Amphitheater, with support from Austin Trembley.

Natalie Diaz 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. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press, and her second book, Postcolonial Love Poem, was published by Graywolf Press in March 2020.

The Fort Lewis College SkyWords Visiting Writers Series connects students and the Durango community with emerging and established writers in dialogue about the power of story. SkyWords provides a space for engagement in a discussion about narrative, writing craft, and the big ideas engaging our culture. The diversity of voices, backgrounds, traditions, and visions for the future showcased by SkyWords writers capture the possibilities writing offers for connection, understanding, and change.

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Durango Public Library
1900 E 3rd Ave
Durango, CO
81301

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