Media: Interviews, Reviews, Articles

June 10, 2026, TIME Magazine
25 Songs That Define America Now

Joy’s offer­ing: John Coltrane’s Alaba­ma.” Read more here!

June 01, 2026, Buscadero
Joy Harjo's Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace - Monthly Pick for Buscadero

The June 2026 Issue of Bus­cadero fea­tures Joy’s new album as a pick of the month.

May 29, 2026, BLUES.GR
Interview with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo on Jazz, Poetry, and Rebellion

Joy Har­jo reflects on her cre­ative jour­ney as a musi­cian and poet, explor­ing the deep, spir­i­tu­al con­nec­tion between song­writ­ing, sto­ry­telling, and her Musco­gee heritage. 

May 25, 2026
See lineup at Spring­steen Cen­ter Nat­ive Amer­ican Exper­i­ence con­cert

The Nat­ive Amer­ican Music Exper­i­ence con­cert will present the his­tory and leg­acy of Indi­gen­ous music in Amer­ica on Wed­nes­day, June 3 at the Pol­lak The­atre on the Mon­mouth Uni­versity cam­pus in West Long Branch.

May 20, 2026, Native America Calling
Native Playlist with Joy Harjo and Julia Keefe - Indigenous Big Band

For­mer U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate and musi­cian Joy Har­jo (Mvskoke) immers­es lis­ten­ers in a diverse array of jazz styles and deeply emo­tion­al poet­ry on her new album, Insom­nia and Sev­en Steps to Grace

Lis­ten on Native Amer­i­ca Calling

May 15, 2026, NPR - WBUR
Here & Now

Host Robin Young speaks with for­mer U.S. poet lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo and five-time Gram­my win­ner Esper­an­za Spald­ing about Har­jo’s new album Insom­nia and Sev­en Steps to Grace,” which Spald­ing musi­cal­ly produced.

April 26, 2026, WNYC
April 22, 2026, TIME Magazine
25 Songs That Define America Now

Har­jo’s con­tri­bu­tion to 25 Songs That Define Amer­i­ca Now: John Coltrane’s Alaba­ma” — read more here!

April 16, 2026, Book Riot
Poetry Picture Books for Kids

REMEM­BER list­ed among top five Best Poet­ry Pic­ture Books for Kids! Read more

March 23, 2026, First Nations Development Institute