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June 24, 2021, Artisan Music Reviews
I Pray for My Enemy: Album Review

"It is time to open the heart and the spirit." Review by R J Lannan, Artisan Music Reviews

April 27, 2021, Music Connection - May 2021 Issue
Album Review: "I Pray for My Enemies"

On Harjo’s epic, expansive, emotionally hard hitting, reflective, provocative and ultimately healing and dare we say joyful first album in a decade. . . READ MORE

March 12, 2021, Terrain.org
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

"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

March 12, 2021, LA Review of Books
America Starts Here: On “When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry”

"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...

August 31, 2020, Pasatiempo
March 17, 2020, ALTA
Joy Harjo reimagines a national narrative in An American Sunrise.

"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...

December 10, 2019, Medium.com - Books are Magic
13 Books by Native Writers to be Thankful For

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."

November 26, 2019, Boston Sunday Globe- Books
October 25, 2019, Publishers Weekly
An American Sunrise

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.

August 13, 2019, The New York Times
From the Country’s New Poet Laureate, Poems Reclaiming Tribal Culture

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.