Joy Harjo contributed to the Merriam-Webster project about poets’ favorite words. Beautiful-Shimmer-Jetty This is hard. The word beautiful is considered overused and even too romantic these days, but I use it often. So then I went to shimmer. I love the onomatopoeia. Shimmer is shimmer. It is what it is, and the word can cast […]
World Literature Today
“This is not merely a book of poetry. These are instructions for the soul, a song to lead the reader home. With Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, the first lady of American Indian poetry arrives. In this volume, Joy Harjo reaches her full maturity as a poet and as a human being, a teacher for […]
Yes Magazine
Native American poet Joy Harjo declares, “I was not brave.” But her memoir is a gift that urges us to enlist our own crazy bravery to step through the doorways in our lives. Read Review
So To Speak Interview
Harjo never shies away from tough topics; she addresses inequalities and injustices through her writing, interviews, and public speaking. Read Interview
Sampsonia Way
Having to Fight for It: An interview with Poet/Musician Joy Harjo “Words are vehicles for bringing something into being: A vision of peace, a vision of connection, a vision of telling a story of who we are, what we’ve done, where we’ve been, where we’re going.” Read Article
Cutthroat
Initiations: A review of Crazy Brave by Pam Uschuk Crazy Brave is one of most inventive memoirs I’ve ever read. It is as intensely engrossing as it is poignant. It also has a sense of humor. Since Harjo is a poet and musician, her prose reverberates with rhythm as well as with metaphor, story and wisdom. Read […]
Book Browse
In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Read Review
