Media: Interviews, Reviews, Articles

Lis­ten to Joy Har­jo on KUNM Native Amer­i­ca Call­ing on April 14, 11 am — 12 pm MT with Tara Gate­wood. ​“Cel­e­brate poet­ry and live in the music” with Joy Har­jo! Joy Har­jo and her album I Pray for My…

Join Zan as she hosts a phone inter­view with mul­ti-instru­men­tal­ist musi­cian, poet, per­former and activist Joy Har­jo, 23^rd U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate (and first Native Amer­i­can), as she speaks about what inspired her recent album, I Pray for My Ene­mies, with…

For Nation­al Poet­ry Month, Har­jo joins poets Kealo­ha (Native Hawai­ian), Natal­ie Diaz (Mojave/​Akimel O’otham), and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Oso­rio (Native Hawai­ian) for a Smith­son­ian-host­ed vir­tu­al read­ing and discussion.

At the event, titled ​“Native Amer­i­cans and the Nation­al Con­scious­ness” and mod­er­at­ed by Har­vard Pro­fes­sor of His­to­ry Philip J. Delo­ria, Har­jo inter­spersed her per­son­al expe­ri­ences as a Native woman with excerpts of her own work and poems from oth­er Native…

April is Nation­al Poet­ry Month. This month-long cel­e­bra­tion of poet­ry was intro­duced in 1996 by the Acad­e­my of Amer­i­can Poets with the inten­tion to increase appre­ci­a­tion of poetry.

Cre­at­ed by Red Room Poet­ry as part of Poet­ry Month and led by pro­duc­er Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Fair Trade invites six paired poets to weave words across lands and seas, gath­er­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive threads and shin­ing a light on First…

In her first new record­ing in a decade, Joy Har­jo – the first Native Amer­i­can named Poet Lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States – digs deep into the indige­nous red earth. Read more.

“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…

Join the nation­al con­ver­sa­tion with host Bri­an Lehrer as the Biden/​Harris admin­is­tra­tion starts its work. 

Pres­i­dent Biden’s nom­i­na­tion of Rep. Deb Haa­land (D, NM) to be Sec­re­tary of the Inte­ri­or would put a Native Amer­i­can (Lagu­na Pueblo) in…