Book Launch for We : Layli Long Soldier in Conversation With Natalie Diaz

also Wé, the Lakota word meaning “blood”—what is shared and what is shed. In this ingenious and insightful arrangement of poems, lyric essays, and her own visual artworks presented in full color, Long Soldier creates unique spaces of collaboration, mentorship, and shared knowledge. We is a visionary new collection by a writer and artist whose unfolding works are among the most groundbreaking of our time. Copies of We will be available for purchase at the event. Readings in Kray Hall. Also streamed on Zoom with link sent out day of the event. The suggested donation for this event is $10. All donations benefit Poets House. You will be able to choose your contribution amount when you RSVP online or at the door. All are welcome; no one will be turned away for lack of funds. By attending or participating in this program, you agree to abide by our Community Agreement. Events at Poets House are popular, and seating is first-come, first-seated. We have several seats reserved for people with access needs. If events reach capacity, seating will be available in an overflow viewing room. About the poets Layli Long Soldier is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (Q Avenue Press, 2010) and WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in American Poets, The American Reader, BOMB, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, Poetry, and elsewhere. WHEREAS was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award and winner of the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award. Long Soldier has also received a 2016 Whiting Award, a 2021 Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, the 2021 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize in the UK, and the 2025 C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2024, she received an Emmy Award for her poetry in the documentary film Lakota Nation vs. United States. She holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Bard College. She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Natalie Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, finalist for the National Book Award, Forward Prize in Poetry, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of a Publishing Triangle Award. Her first book, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was winner of an American Book Award. She has received many honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a USA fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Diaz is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.