Today's poem is "If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert"
from What the House Knows
Natalie Diaz
is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press, 2020), winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), winner of an American Book Award. Her honors include fellowships from the Lannan Literary Foundation, Native Arts Council Foundation, and Princeton University, as well as the 2023 Arts and Letters Award in Literature.
Other poems by Natalie Diaz in Verse Daily:
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What the House Knows
Editor: Diane Lockward
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