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US Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo head­lined the Jan­u­ary 24 President’s Pro­gram at the 2021 Mid­win­ter Meet­ing & Exhibits Virtual. 

Unit­ed States Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo says Amer­i­ca has a bro­ken heart, and poet­ry can help heal it. Part of that heal­ing is the acknowl­edge­ment of gen­er­a­tions of Native Amer­i­can poet­ic voices.

Our list of notable Okla­homans fea­tures peo­ple who have been at the cen­ter of the news and cul­ture in 2020. Joy Har­jo is among them. 

Gary Fife of Mvskoke Media reviews 2020 ​“Highs,” among them, Joy Har­jo’s third term laureateship.

Six cul­tur­al voic­es mark the tran­si­tion to 2021 with choice words and swipes of lipstick

In this week’s show, we have a real­ly spe­cial treat – Joy Har­jo, the first indige­nous Poet Lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States. Lis­ten Here!

The Poet­ry Soci­ety of Amer­i­ca cel­e­brates its 110^th Anniver­sary, and to mark the occa­sion, we have invit­ed 11 acclaimed poets to help us cre­ate Read­ing Through the Decades, a video sur­vey of Amer­i­can poet­ry over the past 110 years.

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…