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In an excerpt from her forth­com­ing mem­oir Poet War­rior, Joy Har­jo recalls how Momaday’s poem ​“The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee” inspired her to begin writ­ing poet­ry. Read here

“It is time to open the heart and the spir­it.” Review by R J Lan­nan, Arti­san Music Reviews

New & Note­wor­thy: LIV­ING NATIONS, LIV­ING WORDS: An Anthol­o­gy of First Peo­ples Poet­ry, edit­ed by Joy Har­jo. (Nor­ton, paper, $15.) Har­jo, a mem­ber of the Musco­gee Nation, is the first Native Amer­i­can to serve as U.S. poet lau­re­ate; this anthology…

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Joy Har­jo shares a poem for the Class of 2021. Read more here

On this episode of ​“Lit­er­ary Arts: The Archive Project,” we fea­ture poet Joy Har­jo. Har­jo became the first Native Amer­i­can Poet Lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States when she was appoint­ed in 2019, and is cur­rent­ly serv­ing her third term in…

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa’s Inter­na­tion­al Writ­ing Pro­gram, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Asia Soci­ety, at 6 p.m. Mon­day will host a free online event to show sup­port for writ­ers — includ­ing IWP alum­ni — who were arrest­ed or killed dur­ing a February…

Native Amer­i­can writer and musi­cian Joy Har­jo trav­els to the stolen home­land, guid­ed by her grand­fa­ther, the leg­endary war­lord Menawa. Read more here (arti­cle in French) 

In the 2^nd part of this week’s pro­gram our very spe­cial guest is the cur­rent Poet Lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States, Native Amer­i­can poet, spo­ken word artist JOY HAR­JO, who is also a jazz sax­o­phon­ist. Plus we lis­ten to a…