Thu April 9, 2026
7:00 - 8:30pm
Black Community Services Center
418 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
Community Room
Join us for A Conversation with Joy Harjo featuring Readings and Curated Q & A about her newly released book “Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age”
RSVP REQUIRED: https://tinyurl.com/JoyHarjoGirlWarrior
Seats will be limited - first come, first serve!
During this event, Joy Harjo will be speaking about her newly released book Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age, where she speaks directly to Native girls and women, sharing stories about her own coming of age to bring renewed attention to the pivotal moments of becoming, including forgiveness, failure, falling, rising up, and honoring our vast family of beings.
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is the winner of the Poetry Society of America's 2024 Frost Medal, Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal.
The author of eleven books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years, several plays, children's books, and non-fiction works, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, her many honors include the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Cloud Runner, Harjo's twelfth book of poetry, will be published by W.W. Norton in the fall of 2026.
This event is co-sponsored by: The Centers for Equity, Community, and Leadership | Native American Studies | Queer Student Resource | Native American Cultural Center | Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies | Muwekma-Tah-Ruk | Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages | Hume Writing Center | Theater and Performance Studies | The Institute for Advancing Just Societies | American Studies Program | Sociology
