# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Free Outdoor Poetry Reading with Natalie Diaz & Leanne Betasamosake
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 01 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Please join us for a Free outdoor poetry reading with Natalie Diaz and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Wednesday, April 1, 7:00 pm, at Amerind. This event is in partnership with the University of Arizona Poetry Center, as part of In-Na-Po’s 2026 Retreat at Amerind.

Natalie Diaz was born on 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 (Akimel O’odham). 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. 

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer, and academic, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Leanne is the author of eight books, including A Short History of the Blockade and the novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, which was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and the Dublin Literary Prize.

Founded in 2020, In-Na-Po is a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native Writers past, present, and future. They will host their fifth annual week-long retreat for emerging Native poets at the Amerind Museum in Dragoon, AZ, and at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

This is a Free event and will be held outdoors under the full moon. Please dress appropriately for an early April Arizona evening, and please bring your camping chair if you have one.

We hope to see you April 1st for an evening poetry under the stars!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/dragoon/free-outdoor-poetry-reading-with-natalie-diaz-and-leanne-betasamosake/200029835102922
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, music, trips-adventures, entertainment, camping
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Dragoon
- **state**: AZ
- **country**: United States
- **location**: PO Box 400, 2100 N Amerind Rd, Dragoon, AZ, United States, Arizona 85609
- **lat**: 32.04563
- **long**: -110.07875
- **full address**: PO Box 400, 2100 N Amerind Rd, Dragoon, AZ, United States, Arizona 85609

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Free Outdoor Poetry Reading with Natalie Diaz & Leanne Betasamosake being held?
  - **A:** Free Outdoor Poetry Reading with Natalie Diaz & Leanne Betasamosake takes place on Wed, 01 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 01 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm at PO Box 400, 2100 N Amerind Rd, Dragoon, AZ, United States, Arizona 85609.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Free Outdoor Poetry Reading with Natalie Diaz & Leanne Betasamosake?
  - **A:** Free Outdoor Poetry Reading with Natalie Diaz & Leanne Betasamosake is organized by Amerind Museum.

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