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Joy Har­jo has been named the win­ner of Yale’s 2023 Bollin­gen Prize for Amer­i­can Poet­ry. The Bollin­gen Prize, estab­lished by Paul Mel­lon in 1949, is award­ed bien­ni­al­ly by Yale Uni­ver­si­ty Library through Bei­necke Rare Book and Manuscript…

The world and the us are joined, always, and with­out effort. To look close­ly at oth­ers is to watch our­selves close­ly, and what a gift it can be, offer­ing our attention.

For­mer U.S. poet lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo has won an hon­orary award for life­time achievement.

This year’s recip­i­ent of the Ivan San­drof Life­time Achieve­ment Award will be for­mer U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo. Rec­og­niz­ing her three terms in the pres­ti­gious nation­al post and as ​“a lead­ing voice for Native Amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ties on and off…

Native-led orga­ni­za­tions and Native Amer­i­can artists are receiv­ing a well-deserved increase in pub­lic atten­tion, recog­ni­tion, and sup­port. Joy Har­jo was hon­ored at the Nation­al Arts Awards with the 2022 Life­time Achieve­ment Award. Read more

VER­DICT Har­jo is a nation­al trea­sure, per­haps even a nation­al resource, and this impor­tant book is an essen­tial addi­tion to con­tem­po­rary poet­ry col­lec­tions everywhere.

"In one of the 50 vignettes that make up "Catching the Light," Joy Harjo tells of receiving an image via Facebook Messenger from an old friend in Lukachukai, a mountainous area of the Navajo Nation in Arizona."

“In these two very dif­fer­ent works on writ­ing by two very dif­fer­ent writ­ers, there is much for fans and for writ­ers alike.” Read more about Har­jo’s CATCH­ING THE LIGHT

On Har­jo’s POET WAR­RIOR: It’s a spe­cial kind of mem­oir in that it is with­out a doubt about Joy Harjo’s life and work…but it’s also about poet­ry, about pol­i­tics, about the art of the poet­ic craft, and about being a…

Fea­tur­ing Joy Har­jo, Com­men­tary by Kwame Dawes