Tuesday, December 3

Joy Harjo: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

Joy Harjo—23rd U.S. Poet Laureate—visits TPL to discuss her groundbreaking career in conversation with poet and novelist Anne Michaels.

By Toronto Public Library

Date and time

Tuesday, December 3 · 7 - 8pm EST

Location

Bram & Bluma Appel Salon

Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge Street Toronto, ON M4W 2G8 Canada

About this event

• Event lasts 1 hour

Joy Harjo—writer, musician and 23rd United States Poet Laureate—discusses her groundbreaking career and poetry.

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light is a magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate Harjo’s fifty years as a poet. In this gemlike volume, she selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo’s inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth.

Joy Harjo speaks with poet and novelist Anne Michaels about her musical, intimate, political, and wise writing, which intertwines ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love that speaks “from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all” (NPR).

Q&A and book signing to follow. Books available for purchase.

Ticket registration for this event is required: Free tickets for this event are available to book via Eventbrite.