In a show-stopping performance, award-winning poet Natalie Diaz uncorks the love and pathos in her hapless brother’s story of drugs, recurrent arrests, and hallucinatory identification with a native ancestor and a rock-and-roll hero. It’s always good to see and hear a remarkable poet read her stuff, and Diaz, in both her writing and her delivery, stands with the best. Get ready for a good ride, and enjoy!

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In a show-stopping performance, award-winning poet Natalie Diaz uncorks the love and pathos in her hapless brother’s story of drugs, recurrent arrests, and hallucinatory identification with a native ancestor and a rock and roll hero. It’s always good to see and hear a remarkable poet read her stuff, and Diaz, in both her writing and her delivery, stands with the best. Get ready for a good ride, and enjoy!

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1. My Dad, Sisyphus, and My Brother

The phone rings—my brother was arrested again.
Dad hangs up, gets his old blue Chevy going,

    and heads to the police station.
It’s not the first time. It’s not even the second.
No one is surprised when my brother is arrested again.
The guy fell on my knife was his one-phone-call explanation.
(He stabbed a man five times in the back is the official accusation.)