Internationally renowned poet, performer, and writer Joy Harjo will present the 2026 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture on Thursday, February 26, at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus. Harjo’s presentation at 7 p.m. is free and open to the public. Please RSVP at tiny.utk.edu/WDS2026.
This year’s Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture is hosted by the University of Tennessee Libraries, Friends of the Knox County Public Library and the McClung Museum. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Homelands: Connecting to Mounds through Native Art.
