Natalie Diaz Poems

Natalie Diaz is a Mojave poet and author of numerous collections. Her Postcolonial Love Poem was the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. She has also won a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Narrative Poetry Prize.

My Brother at 3 AM

by Natalie Diaz

My Brother at 3 am by Natalie Diaz is written in a Malay verse form called pantoum. He believes that something, or someone, “wants to kill [him]. ”

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