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.
VIDEO
Jim Lehrer News
Hour
Joy Harjo is a multi-talented artist of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She is an internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician.
VIDEO
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.
VIDEO
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.
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 . . .
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