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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.

A starred review by Kirkus Reviews for REMEM­BER, a pic­ture-book adap­ta­tion of a work by for­mer U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate Har­jo, illus­trat­ed by Calde­cott medal­ist Goade

For­mer U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo con­tin­ues to earn praise for her work in the posi­tion. On Octo­ber 26^th at its annu­al con­ven­tion, the Asso­ci­a­tion of Trib­al Archives, Libraries., and Muse­ums (ATALM) pre­sent­ed one of its Guardians of Cul­ture and…

Lis­ten to an inter­view with Joy Har­jo on the unCLAS­SI­FIED: Behind the Music pod­cast, aired Nov 30, 2022. On Apple Pod­casts, Spo­ti­fy, or Google Pod­casts!

Joy Har­jo induct­ed into the Okla­homa Hall of Fame, Novem­ber 2022

From the Wall Street Jour­nal’s Week­end Con­fi­den­tial, 11/18/22:

The first Native to serve as U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate believes that poems can give us ​‘new ways to speak with each oth­er’ at a time of division.

Author Tom­my Orange dis­cuss­es the plight of the urban Native Amer­i­can, cou­pled with a com­plex and painful his­to­ry but also an inher­i­tance of pro­found beau­ty and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty. Also, for­mer US Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo per­forms her poet­ry in song.

Joy Har­jo has always cut her own path. So the new ​“Weav­ing Sun­down in a Scar­let Light” isn’t like oth­er poet­ry ret­ro­spec­tives. At 127 pages — includ­ing a San­dra Cis­neros fore­word, notes on the poems and oth­er pages with­out poems…

Nov. 14, 2022: On Monday’s show: We talk with Joy Har­jo, the first Native Amer­i­can U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate (begin­ning at 23 min 48 sec) 

Unit­ed States Poet Lau­re­ate for 2019, Joy Harjo’s ​“Poet war­rior: a mem­oir” is a med­i­ta­tion on love, grief, jus­tice and heal­ing in her rela­tion­ship with her fam­i­ly, her cul­ture and her art.