Natalie Diaz Talks Love and Basketball

2018 MacArthur Genius winner Natalie Diaz talks about going from a professional basketball player to a poet, and how her love of language helped her embrace her queerness.

— Natalie Diaz is a poet, essayist, and linguist. She teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program.

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Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom and Isaac Jones.

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