The DC Bushwick Book Club will be presenting new work inspired by Natalie Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, at the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System as part of their Native American Heritage Month programming.

The DC Bushwick Book Club is one of eight active chapters around the world of the Bushwick Book Club, where artists read a book and then create new work inspired by it. Participating artists include Carlos Cello (music), Ella Gallogly (music), Gene Downing (spoken word), Georgie Jessup (music), Kerri Sheehan (animation), Sea Griffin (music), and Susan Hwang with Ed Pastorini (music and Bushwick Book Club founder!).

Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body -- bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers -- be touched and held as beloveds. In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.

The program is free and open to the public; the suggested age is 16 and up.