Media: Interviews, Reviews, Articles

April 22, 2021, Red Lake Nation News
April 22, 2021, Minnesota Star Tribune
Bonnie Raitt and Indigo Girls join Minnesota activists in new Line 3 protest song

Joy Har­jo, along with Bon­nie Raitt and the Indi­go Girls, each con­tributed vocals to a new sin­gle released Thurs­day to raise mon­ey and aware­ness for Stop Line 3 caus­es. Titled No More Pipeline Blues (On This Land Where We Belong),”…

April 22, 2021, World Literature Today
Opening the Doorways of Recognition for Native People: A Conversation with Joy Harjo

To cel­e­brate the twen­ty-fifth anniver­sary of Nation­al Poet­ry Month, in this last of the series of con­ver­sa­tions with three US Poets Lau­re­ate, Joy Har­jo dis­cuss­es her dig­i­tal map project, how Native peo­ple have been dis­ap­peared, and answers the…

April 21, 2021, The Rolling Stones
Joy Harjo, Bonnie Raitt, Indigo Girls Appear on ‘No More Pipeline Blues (On this Land Where We Belong)’

Joy Har­jo, with Bon­nie Raitt and the Indi­go Girls are among the many voic­es fea­tured on No More Pipeline Blues (On this Land Where We Belong),” out on Earth Day (April 22nd) via Rock…

April 18, 2021, The Lily - The Washington Post
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo reflects on the lessons, rituals and gifts of the pandemic year

Har­jo reflects on the lessons of the pan­dem­ic year, and how poet­ry can help us chart a way to a kinder, more har­mo­nious world. Read more here

April 16, 2021, Iowa Public Radio
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo On Her New Album "I Pray For My Enemies"

Har­jo joins Talk of Iowa host Char­i­ty Nebbe to learn how this album came to be and how she is able to know when a cre­ative idea is a song or poem. Lis­ten to the radio inter­view here

April 14, 2021, KUNM Native American Calling
April 13, 2021, Spokane Public Radio
Soundspace Interview with Joy Harjo

Join Zan as she hosts a phone inter­view with mul­ti-instru­men­tal­ist musi­cian, poet, per­former and activist Joy Har­jo, 23rd U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate (and first Native Amer­i­can), as she speaks about what inspired her recent album, I Pray for My Ene­mies, with…

April 13, 2021, Washington City Paper
City Lights: Joy Harjo Reads in the NMAI’s Indigenous Poetry: Resilience

For Nation­al Poet­ry Month, Har­jo joins poets Kealo­ha (Native Hawai­ian), Natal­ie Diaz (Mojave/​Akimel O’otham), and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Oso­rio (Native Hawai­ian) for a Smith­son­ian-host­ed vir­tu­al read­ing and discussion.

April 12, 2021, The Harvard Crimson
23rd U.S. Poet Laureate Discusses Native American Identity and Poetry

At the event, titled Native Amer­i­cans and the Nation­al Con­scious­ness” and mod­er­at­ed by Har­vard Pro­fes­sor of His­to­ry Philip J. Delo­ria, Har­jo inter­spersed her per­son­al expe­ri­ences as a Native woman with excerpts of her own work and poems from oth­er Native…