Media: Interviews, Reviews, Articles

“These poems tak­en from half a cen­tu­ry of Harjo’s work show the powerful…

Joy Har­jo, Weav­ing Sun­down in a Scar­let Light(W. W. Norton)

“[Harjo’s] poet­ry is light and elixir, the very best pre­scrip­tion for us in wound­ed times.”–The Mil­lions

INTER­VIEW WITH JOY HAR­JO by LEIGH HOP­KINS | OCT 2022 | ISSUE 19

“I read Catch­ing the Light in one day, total­ly immersed in lan­guage and sto­ry. When I reached the last page, I felt full of pos­si­bil­i­ty — not…

For the week of Octo­ber 16, CATCH­ING THE LIGHT is one of Okla­homa’s Best Sell­ers in Nonfiction! 

The first Native Amer­i­can U.S. poet lau­re­ate explains how she freed her­self from the com­pli­ca­tions of a hard­scrab­ble child­hood. Excerpt­ed from CATCH­ING THE LIGHT

Fea­tur­ing an excerpt from Joy Harjo’s Catch­ing the Light, which appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writ­ing newslet­ter.

Har­jo was award­ed the life­time achieve­ment award at the Nation­al Art Awards, which took place at Guastavino’s in New York City. Short­ly before, Vogue took a moment to chat with Har­jo about what inspires her work…

Joy Har­jo is fea­tured in The New York Times Lit Triv­ia, on Octo­ber 14, 2022

2022 NATION­AL ARTS AWARDS TO HON­OR POET LAU­RE­ATE JOY HAR­JO, THE GOR­DON PARKS FOUN­DA­TION + FOR FREEDOMS

Har­jo’s POET WAR­RIOR: The authors incor­po­rate Indige­nous knowl­edge, which has his­tor­i­cal­ly been buried by colo­nial­ism, into bold sto­ries that fos­ter cul­tur­al under­stand­ing. Each book on this list is a pow­er­ful tool for reflec­tion not just on Indige­nous Peo­ples’ Day…