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WORDS ON A WIRE: Natalie Diaz

    We welcome new co-host Tim Hernandez, a past guest on the program and a new member of the UTEP faculty in the Creative Writing Program.  Daniel &  Tim will talk to poet Natalie Diaz about her book "When My Brother was an Aztec."  Natalie explains how the Arizona landscape inspires her writing, and why her poetry is so image-driven.   She also shares a great story about the book's cover.

Natalie Diaz reads one of her poems for the Poem of the Week: "The Gospel of Guy No-Horse" from the collection "When My Brother was an Aztec."

Aired Dec. 28, 2014.

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