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.
ARTICLES
Her Pueblo Round Place —
A Remembrance of
Paula Gunn Allen by Joy Harjo
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For A Girl Becoming, a young adult/coming of age book, was released in 2009 and is Harjo’s most recent publication. She has released four award-winning CD's of original music and in 2009 won a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year for Winding Through the Milky Way. She performs nationally and internationally with her band, the Arrow Dynamics. She also performs her one-woman show, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, which premiered at the Wells Fargo Theater in Los Angeles in 2009. She has received a Rasmusson:US Artists Fellowship and 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 Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Photos: Paul Abdoo
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Joy Harjo and Larry Mitchell
Photo: Karen Kuehn
Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. Her seven books of poetry, which includes such well-known titles as How We Became Human-New and Selected Poems, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and She Had Some Horses have garnered many awards. These include 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.
CDs
Winding Through the Milky Way, Joy Harjo, Fast Horse Recordings 2008, Mekko Productions Inc., 2009
(music/songs)
She Had Some Horses, Mekko Productions Inc 2006 (spoken word with a few music bonus trax)
Native Joy for Real, Joy Harjo, Mekko Productions Inc 2004 (music with poetry/songs)
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)
MUSIC
…With a double shot of heart, beauty, freedom, peace and grace that blends traditional Native rhythms and singing with jazz, rock, blues and
hip-hip, Harjo….
is right at the top of the heap of the best contemporary American
poetry-and-music artists.”
—Thomas Rain Crow
The Bloomsbury Review
Photo: Karen Kuehn (web quality photo)
Photo: Karen Kuehn
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