2006
Most of my reading of late has been during long flights between Honolulu and the Mainland, beneath a swelling moon. Read more . . .
Native Joy For Real CD
2005
This is the work of a poet at the top of her powers.
Evening of Native American
Women Writers
Joy Harjo is a multi-talented artist of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She is an internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician.
2005 Triplopia
Explore her writing and youll soon find it rich in the auditory imagery of dogs barking, the ground speaking and the moon playing the horn. And yet, sounds do much more than play to the senses in Harjos poetry. We recently had the privilege of catching up with Joy where we discussed the fusion of oral and written poetry, the responsibility of the poet, and the way music penetrates us all. Read more . . .
There are, as it were, two different landscapes present in these poems you've given us . . .
Native American poet and musician Joy Harjo entranced the audience with poems of grief and happiness, womanhood, ancestry and an appreciation of nature.
A poetic voice grows and changes naturally, according the human it springs from. . .
In a strange kind of sense writing frees me to believe in myself, to be able to speak, to have voice, because I have to; it is my survival. . .
Her Pueblo Round Place —
A Remembrance of
Paula Gunn Allen by Joy Harjo
2008
It was the summer of 1973 when I first met Paula Gunn Allen, the teacher and poet who was destined to create on her own terms a scholarly framework for native women’s culture.
Joy Harjo is a multi-talented artist of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She is an internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician. Read more . . .
This I Believe: A Sacred Connection To The Sun
2007
Joy Harjo is a multi-talented artist of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She is an internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician. Read more . . .
Winding Through The Milky Way Reviews
Originating in the Music
2008
Joy Harjo is a poet and musician with roots in the Creek Indian culture and the American South. She visited Sweden to participate in the International Poetry Festival and Free Newspapers took the opportunity to meet her for a conversation on the origins and global awareness.
Creativity Radio
What Makes It Native?
2009
Brent Michael Davids (Mohican) maintains that there is no such thing as generic Indian music. "Hollywood might lead you to believe that the sound is of a pentatonic scale. That's from the Plains tribes, as are the headdresses, moccasins, horses that Hollywood depicts, but there are over 500 different tribes in the country," Davids explains, and the fact is that most Native music is very sophisticated and complex.
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VIDEO Interviews
Artist’s on The Cutting Edge Poetry Reading
Nearly Unbearable Grace
Native American poet and performance artist Joy Harjo reads a selection of her work, and discusses the variety of influences (including music) on her artistic development.
Joy Harjo is a multi-talented artist of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She is an internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician.
The Radio Project Brings Contemporary Voices to History Channel Series
Modern Day People from We Shall Remain
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
2009
It was only 20 years ago when poet, professor and musician Joy Harjo went to a gathering to discuss the Columbus quincentenary and heard an indigenous Bolivian woman say she was stunned to discover indigenous people still existed in the U.S. and Canada. It’s this portrait across the globe that Hollywood producers and the mainstream media have painted and romanticized—from the long-haired, bare-chested Indian riding horse back to the beautiful buckskin wearing maiden—even in modern times.
As the series We Shall Remain using such imagery debuted on PBS’ American Experience April 13, 2009, a companion radio piece also rolls out, which Native people say works to balance the historic visuals with sounds and conversation from contemporary people and culture—the remain part in We Shall Remain.
“It was really important to us to show the authentic Native voice from a contemporary prospective,” said Peggy Berryhill (Muscogee Creek), producer of the companion We Shall Remain radio project. “…And we felt that it was vitally important that tribes and Native communities are not left in the past, but seen as the dynamic sovereign nations that they are today.”
Hear an excerpt from Joy’s Interview
PBS Series: We Shall Remain
Brent Michael Davids (Mohican) maintains that there is no such thing as generic Indian music. "Hollywood might lead you to believe that the sound is of a pentatonic scale. That's from the Plains tribes, as are the headdresses, moccasins, horses that Hollywood depicts, but there are over 500 different tribes in the country," Davids explains, and the fact is that most Native music is very sophisticated and complex.
The New Mexican
