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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…

We peek into the air­port rou­tines and bizarre quirks of the world’s most well-trav­eled people.

Joy Har­jo, for­mer Nation­al Poet Lau­re­ate and musi­cian, shares her artis­tic jour­ney as a Native Amer­i­can woman into what she calls the ​“sto­ry field.” 

Joy Har­jo’s poem SHAPESHIFTER pub­lished in The New York­er, Oct 6, 2025

The poet and author’s newest mem­oir is geared toward any­one in tran­si­tion, even just from one day to the next