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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),”…

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…

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 22^nd) via Rock…

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

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

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

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.

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…

April is Nation­al Poet­ry Month. This month-long cel­e­bra­tion of poet­ry was intro­duced in 1996 by the Acad­e­my of Amer­i­can Poets with the inten­tion to increase appre­ci­a­tion of poetry.