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Gala Com­mem­o­rates 10^th Anniver­sary of Cel­e­brat­ed Por­trait of a Nation Awards

The Smithsonian’s Nation­al Por­trait Gallery hon­ored Mvskoke (Creek) poet, per­former and writer Joy Har­jo on Sat­ur­day as one of its 2025 Por­trait of a Nation Award recip­i­ents, rec­og­niz­ing her trans­for­ma­tive con­tri­bu­tions to Amer­i­can cul­ture and letters.

The upcom­ing album will be her eighth since her debut record­ing in 1985 and fol­lows 2021’s ​“I Pray for My Enemies.”

Joy Har­jo said she was hap­py to be in Tran­syl­va­nia Coun­ty where the ​“trees rule.” Read more

Poet, artist, activist, and musi­cian Joy Har­jo will release her next album on Smith­son­ian Folk­ways Record­ings in 2026.

“Girl War­rior” by Joy Har­jo — I looked for this book in the poet­ry sec­tion but found it in the mem­oir sec­tion! It includes some of Harjo’s glo­ri­ous orig­i­nal poet­ry but is pri­mar­i­ly a mem­oir writ­ten in very short and…

Joy Har­jo joins us for part one of a three-part series ask­ing the ques­tion posed by poet Chris­t­ian Wiman: What is poetry’s role when the world is burn­ing? Lis­ten here 

For a Girl Becom­ing list­ed among the Best Books of 2025 by Pub­lish­er’s Weekly 

Por­traits of Tem­ple Grandin, Joy Har­jo, Steven Spiel­berg, and Jamie Dimon will now be part of the museum’s per­ma­nent col­lec­tion. See them for the first time inTown & Coun­try.

We drop in on a remark­able con­ver­sa­tion between two world-renowned Native Amer­i­can women artists, Nation­al Poet Lau­re­ate and musi­cian Joy Har­jo riffs with dis­tin­guished fine art pho­tog­ra­ph­er Cara Romero. They dis­cuss how life is art, and how they make their…