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"The poems of When The Light Of The World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through provide a riveting testimony to the truth of its title." - Sawnie Morris

"Rather than an assemblage of solos, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through is a chorus. And right now, we need as many powerful voices in union as we can get." - Review by Dean...

Pasatiempo's Jennifer Levin talks with Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo. Read more here!

"I take an abiding pleasure in knowing that Joy Harjo is the poet laureate of the United States. After all, Harjo—a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the first Native American to be so honored—speaks for an America I...

Serena Morales writes of American Sunrise: "Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate, president of my native heart! I am constantly learning from her and this collection offers no exception."

Newly named poet laureate and Ruth Lilly prize–winner Harjo (Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings) intertwines verse with prose vignettes, oral histories, and flash memoirs in this expressive and generous book.

From the Country’s New Poet Laureate, Poems Reclaiming Tribal Culture

In June, after decades as a significant presence for poetry readers, Joy Harjo was named United States poet laureate.

"In An American Sunrise, Harjo’s 16th book of poetry, released by Norton this week, she continues to bear witness to the violence encountered by Native Americans in the aftermath of Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act. Her words express that the...

"If you read only one book of poems this summer, make it “An American Sunrise” (Norton) by Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be named U.S. poet laureate. In these stunning pages, Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek...