| Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine |
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"Rankine's poetry searingly outlines the micro- and macro-aggressions people of color experience as a fundamental feature of American life. Powerful, difficult, essential." - Sam Regal |
| American sonnets for my past and future assassin by Terrance Hayes |
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"Dazzling, acrobatic, musical, and wrenchingly revealing about Black American life and loss." - Sam Regal |
| Postcolonial love poem by Natalie Diaz |
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"Natalie Diaz is among our greatest living poets. In this work, she advocates for the power of desire over erasure (of histories, of indigenous bodies, of land, of knowledge)." - Sam Regal |
The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.
The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.
Santa Cruz, CA