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SUMMARY:Natalie Diaz\, Ocean Vuong\, and Christopher Soto: tour to end queer youth homelessness
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join Natalie Diaz\, Ocean Vuong\, and Christopher Soto for a reading celebrating the launch of Soto’s first chapbook Sad Girl Poems on the national TOUR TO END QUEER YOUTH HOMELESSNESS. \n  \nNatalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles\, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She earned a BA 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 an MFA. She is the author of the poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012)\, which New York Times reviewer Eric McHenry described as an “ambitious … beautiful book.” Her honors and awards include the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry\, the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from Bread Loaf\, the Narrative Poetry Prize\, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. \n  \nOcean Vuong‘s first full-length collection\, Night Sky With Exit Wounds\, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press (2016). He is also the author of two chapbooks: No (YesYes Books\, 2013) andBurnings (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2010)\, which was an American Library Association’s Over The Rainbow selection. A 2014 Ruth Lilly fellow\, Ocean has received honors and awards from Poets House\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation\, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts\, the Academy of American Poets\, and a Pushcart Prize. His poetry and fiction have been featured in Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, New Republic\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Poetry\, and the American Poetry Review\, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. His work has been translated into Albanian\, Arabic\, Bulgarian\, Cantonese\, French\, Italian\, Hindi\, Spanish\, and Ukrainian. Born in Saigon\, Vietnam\, he resides in New York City and is currently at work on his first novel. \n  \nChristopher Soto (aka Loma) is a queer latinx punk poet & prison abolitionist. They were named one of “Ten Up and Coming Latinx Poets You Need to Know” by Remezcla. They were named one of “Seven Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Artists Doing the Work” by The Offing. Poets & Writers will be honoring Christopher Soto with the “Barnes & Nobles Writer for Writers Award” in 2016. They founded Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color with the Lambda Literary Foundation. They cofounded The Undocupoets Campaign in 2015. Their poetry has been called political surrealist and focuses on domestic violence\, queer youth homelessness\, and mass incarceration. For more information\, visit christophersoto-poet.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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