Articles,
Interviews, Reviews
INTERVIEWS
Alburquerque
Arts - August 2008
The
Spiral of Memory:
Interview with Joy Harjo
ed. Laura Coltelli, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1996
http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=10584
REVIEWS
Wings
of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light Reviews
Winding
Through The Milky Way
Fans
will not be disappointed with this new collection of songs which
celebrates ancestral sensibilities wrapped in contemporary indigenous
rhythms.
Winding
Through The Milky Way
About.com
has listed Joy Harjo's
Native Joy for Real CD
the number one pick of
recent poetry CDs.
http://poetry.about.com/cs/audiopoetry/tp/tprecentcds.htm
ARTICLES
Her Pueblo Round Place —
A Remembrance of
Paula Gunn Allen by Joy Harjo
*Additional Interviews and Articles Click Here
and She Had Some Horses. A song from her forthcoming CD, Winding Through the Milky Way, just won a New Mexico Music Award. She has received the Eagle Spirit Achievement Award for overall contributions in the arts, from the American Indian Film Festival and a US Artists Fellowship for 2009. She performs internationally solo and with her band Joy Harjo and the Arrow Dynamics Band (for which she sings and plays saxophone and flutes), and premiered a preview of her one-woman show, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light at the Public Theater in NYC and will open at the Wells Fargo Theater in LA March 2009. She co-wrote the signature film of the National Museum of the American Indian, A Thousand Roads. She is a founding board member of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Harjo writes a column “Comings and Goings” for her tribal newspaper, the Muscogee Nation News. She lives in Honolulu, Hawai’i where she is a member of the Hui Nalu Canoe Club and in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Joy Harjo and Larry Mitchell
Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation. Her seven books of poetry include She Had Some Horses, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems. Her poetry has garnered many awards including a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award: the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas; and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has released three award-winning CD's of original music and performances: Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century, Native Joy for Real,
BOOKS
The Last Song
poetry chapbook, Puerto del Sol Press 1975, out of print
What Moon Drove
Me to This? I. Reed Books, 1979, out of print
She
Had Some Horses
W.W. Norton Fall 2008, (Original publisher Thunder’s Mouth Press
1984, through three editions)
Secrets
from the Center of the World
University of Arizona Press, 1989 (Harjo poetic prose with Stephen
Strom’s photographs)
In Mad Love and
War, Wesleyan University Press, 1990
Fishing, fine
press chapbook, Oxhead Press, 1991
The Woman Who
Fell From the Sky, W.W. Norton 1994
The Spiral of
Memory, Interviews, U. of Michigan Press 1996 (co-edited
with Laura Coltelli)
Reinventing the
Enemy’s Language, Contemporary Native Women’s Writing of
North America 1997
The Good Luck
Cat, Harcourt 2000
A Map to the
Next World, W.W. Norton, NY 2000
How We Became
Human, New and Selected Poems, W.W. Norton, NY 2003
For a Girl Becoming,
forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press, October 2009 (young
adult/children’s book)
MUSIC
CDs
Letter from the
End of the Twentieth Century, Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice,
Mekko Productions Inc 2002
(Released first by Red Horses Records 1995, Silverwave Records 1997)
(reggae/dub style music with spoken poetry)
Native Joy for
Real, Joy Harjo, Mekko Productions Inc 2004 (music with poetry/songs)
She Had Some
Horses, Mekko Productions Inc 2006 (spoken word with a few
music bonus trax)
Winding Through
the Milky Way, Joy Harjo, Fast Horse Recordings 2008, Mekko
Productions Inc 2009
(music/songs)