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Category: Interviews

February 14, 2021, Michael Limnios Blues Network
Q&A with internationally renowned performer and writer Joy Harjo

"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

December 09, 2020, Let's Hear It!
September 21, 2020, Nevada Public Radio
'An Echo of Something Not Finished': Poet Laureate On These Turbulent Times

Harjo talked with State of Nevada about how art and poetry help make sense of tumultuous times.

September 18, 2020, NPR All Things Considered
May 19, 2020, Tulsa World
Tulsa's Joy Harjo talks Second Term as U.S. Poet Laureate, Quarantine

Joy Harjo talks to Tulsa World about her Second Term appointment and writing during the quarantine.

April 29, 2020, WAMU Radio - The Kojo Nmamdi Show
A Conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate

In search of insight in this time of pestilence, we turn to U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo. Harjo, the first Native American to be named poet laureate, is both an award-winning musician and author of several...

April 29, 2020
Poets House Presents: Joy Harjo

Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings by poets that are live streamed on Twitter & posted on our Archive, Facebook and YouTube on Wednesdays and Fridays at Noon–to keep our community thriving...

April 21, 2020, National Endowment for the Arts
NEA Art Works: Joy Harjo

*** Joy Harjo (Muscogee / Creek) the Poet Laureate of the United States (and NEA Big Read author) joins me this week for a far-ranging conversation about poetry and music. Listen to the podcast here.

March 30, 2020, TulsaPeople
Toward a Place of Poetry

Muscogee (Creek) poet Joy Harjo has been on the move.

Since being named U.S. Poet Laureate in June 2019, the author has only been able to touch down briefly in Tulsa, her hometown, before being called elsewhere to speak or...

March 20, 2020, Library of Congress - From the Catbird Seat Blog
A Larger Context that Reveals Meaning: An Interview with Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

Interview with Rob Casper, Head of LOC Poetry & Literature Center: In the past week, we have been thinking a lot about this unprecedented moment and how poetry might help us live through it. We have also been talking to...