PALABRA PURA: March 18, 2009, Chicago

Joanne Diaz has published poems in various literary journals, including AGNI, The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, and Quarterly West. She holds an MFA from New York University, where she was a New York Times Foundation fellow. She also holds a PhD in English literature from Northwestern University, where served as an assistant editor for TriQuarterly magazine. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University where she teaches courses in creative writing and literature. Among her distinctions are an Illinois Arts Council fellowship for poetry and, most recently, a literature fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.

A sampling of her creative work can be found online:

"Thank you, Brian Williams"

“Syringe”
“Larry David on Corregidor”
“Metastasis, Boracay”
“Uncle Ming Pinched Me”
“Linnaaeus’s Patient”

Joanne Diaz will be reading her work with

Dawn Herrera-Terry

at
Décima Musa
restaturant & bar

PALABRA PURA,
now in its fourth season,

is a partnership between
The Guild Complex &Letras Latinas