Media: Interviews, Reviews, Articles

“Know your­self. Yes. It’s the same thing. Be your­self, know­ing your­self, ulti­mate­ly … by being our­selves, we come to know the world.” — Joy Har­jo. Read more here

Joy Har­jo, who was recent­ly appoint­ed to her third year­long term as Poet Lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States, said that while she believes that a ​“poet­ry surge” has been ongo­ing over the…

Lis­ten to and watch an archived read­ing from When the Light of the World Was Sub­dued, Our Songs Came Through — Read­ing with Joy Har­jo, LeAnne Howe, and Jen­nifer Foerster

Paul Hold­en­gräber is joined by poet Joy Har­jo on episode 153 of The Quar­an­tine Tapes. Joy and Paul dis­cuss the rela­tion­ship between dif­fer­ent art forms as Joy talks about her poet­ry, music, and paint­ing practices.

The ALA President’s Pro­gram at the Amer­i­can Library Asso­ci­a­tion Vir­tu­al Mid­win­ter Meet­ing 2021 fea­tured U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo in con­ver­sa­tion with fel­low poet and mem­oirist Jill Bialosky, an exec­u­tive edi­tor at W. W. Norton.

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.