Being diverse and complex in her poetry, LaTasha Diggs incorporates languages and modes to fulfill a specific quality and tone that is unique to her. Diggs connects her poetry with the history and languages that are carried throughout numerous cultures. Fiercely and powerful, Diggs' poetry can be described as a visible weapon, a tactic simultaneously offensive and defensive, a wargame for the human body. Through this technique and style of writing, Diggs connects and attracts the readers to works, using different elements such as history, voice and ear, and language.
Contributing to an online interview project, Diggs talks about her inspirations found in one of her most popular work, "TwERK". The ability and desire to communicate with people of other languages was the foundation of her poetry and artistic choices.
In a review of "TwERK" for the online literary site "Montevidayo", poet Joyelle McSweeney writes, “Language is not a neutral tool, and the history of the peoples who belong to these language[s] and the hegemonic forces that would distress, suppress or obliterate both the languages and their peoples is what makes these poems so fierce, fraught, bladey and mobile. The showiness and flaunt of these poems are like the fierceness of the drag balls Diggs salutes in one poem: a visible weapon, a tactic simultaneously offensive and defensive, a wargame for the whole body. Diggs’s poems truly work the whole body of the poem, the whole body of sound, the whole body of history, the whole body of voice and ear, the whole body of language and the ability of the page to be its own sonic syntax; they articulate and rotate joints that seemed fixed; they are bawdy and triumphant and they more than work. They "TwERK".”
Diggs is the recipient of numerous awards, including the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Laundromat Project, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Japan–United States Friendship Commission, and Creative Capital.
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