Media: Interviews, Reviews, Articles

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

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.

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

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.

Lis­ten here 

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

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

Joy Har­jo as one the 10 Native Amer­i­can lead­ers select­ed for First Nations’ Luce Indige­nous Knowl­edge Fel­low­ship.

In this episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk speaks with the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo, internationally renowned poet, performer, and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Joy Har­jo, the musi­cian, activist, and for­mer Nation­al Poet Lau­re­ate, will release her new album, Insom­nia and Sev­en Steps to Grace, on April 24^th via Smith­son­ian Folk­ways. Pro­duced by Gram­my-win­ning com­pos­er, bassist, and vocal­ist esper­an­za spald­ing, it is Harjo’s debut…