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Busi­ness Insid­er spoke with Joy Har­jo, the coun­try’s poet lau­re­ate and the first Indige­nous per­son to hold the title since the posi­tion was cre­at­ed in 1937.

Poet­ic jus­tice: Joy Har­jo has been appoint­ed to a third term as U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate. Only one oth­er writer — Robert Pin­sky — has ever served three terms. Har­jo, a mem­ber of the Musco­gee Nation and a pow­er­ful voice for…

Joy Har­jo, the first Native Amer­i­can poet to serve as U.S. poet lau­re­ate, has been reap­point­ed to a rare third term by the Library of Congress.

U.S. poet lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo will serve a third, one-year term and has launched an online project that cel­e­brates Native Amer­i­can poets around the country.

Her reap­point­ment was announced Thurs­day by the Library of Congress…

Joy Har­jo, among 30 oth­ers, list­ed by Joy Har­jo as one of the 31 Native Amer­i­can authors to read right now. 

2020 WORKED HARD to be one of the worst years in recent mem­o­ry, but for read­ers of Native Amer­i­can lit­er­a­ture, this era is prov­ing to be among the most excit­ing in the his­to­ry of Indige­nous writ­ing, espe­cial­ly for poetry.

Fam­i­ly foun­da­tion donates more than a thou­sand copies of Joy Har­jo’s book ​“An Amer­i­can Sun­rise” to indige­nous stu­dents across Minnesota. 

Bring Indige­nous poets into your class­room with les­son plans for Native Amer­i­can Her­itage Month. Here are a range of Les­son Plans fea­tur­ing Joy Harjo! 

Win­frey is call­ing her choic­es ​“The Books That Help Me Through,” works she val­ues for ​“their abil­i­ty to com­fort, inspire, and enlight­en.” Oprah’s list includes the anthol­o­gy edit­ed by U.S. poet lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo, ​“When the Light of the World…