POETRY
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)
“Joy Harjo is a poet of music just as she is a poet of words.”
—Paul Winter, Grammy award winning saxophonist
“…a sax sound that creeps ever closer to that of Coltrane…”
—Thomas Rain Crow, Beat writer, poet and musician.
Photo: Paul Abdoo
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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. 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. Her most recent CD release is a traditional flute album: Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears. 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 with recent performances at the Public Theater in NYC and La Jolla Playhouse as part of the Native Voices at the Autry. 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. More about Joy’s Poetry.
