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This week, our guest is poet\\xa0Natalie Diaz\\xa0in conversation with essayist and author Hilton Als.\\xa0 Natalie Diaz is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community and is the director of the Fort Mojave Language Recovery Program, where she works with the last remaining speakers of the Mojave language. Language and loss are explored throughout Diaz\\u2019s poetry, in collections including When My Brother Was an Aztec and Postcolonial Love Poem, which won her the Pulitzer Prize.

Hilton Als is another writer whose work explores American identity, in theater reviews, articles, and essays for The New Yorker, where he\\u2019s contributed since 1989. Als received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism, \\u201cfor bold and original reviews that strove to put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context.\\u201d \\xa0His writing explores race, sexuality, class, art, and American identity provocatively, exploding the boundaries of the genre in which it is contained.\\xa0 His most recent book is a memoir, My Pinup.

On February 9, 2023, Natalie Diaz and Hilton Als came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco for an onstage conversation, during which Diaz read from her work.