Poetry at The Dalí
April 24 @ 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Poetry at The Dalí is an ongoing series hosted by former poet laureate of St. Petersburg, Helen Pruitt Wallace, featuring select poets each month. This month, in collaboration with Eckerd College’s National Poetry Month Reading Series, the Museum welcomes poet Natalie Diaz to our stage.
You can view past poetry performances on the Museum’s YouTube channel here.
Location: The Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater or live on YouTube (link below)
This event is held on the ground floor of the Museum (gallery access not included). Access to the Museum’s ground floor is free and open to the public.
To watch the live stream from home, click below at the time of the program:
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. Author of the poetry collections Postcolonial 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, a USA Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, a New School Fellowship, and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She also was the Rosenkranz Visiting Writer at Yale. Her work has been widely translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Polish and Slovenian. She earned a Bachelor of Arts 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 a Master of Fine Arts. She is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University, where she directs ASU’s Center for Imagination in the Borderlands.
