Media: Interviews, Reviews, Articles

Native Voice Joy Harjo Draws On Tribal Myth & History In Celebrating Nature

Raised in White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, Sherwin Bitsui is a poet and visual artist based in New Mexico, where he teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Shifting, pulsing, flooding with images in motion, as well...

Bringing Traditional Themes Into Contemporary Writing

This year’s Lilly Prize winner discusses the intersection of poetry and music, as well as the women’s rights and Indigenous rights movements that much her poetry is borne out of.

Radio Interview by Lois P. Jones on Poets CafeKPFK Los Angeles

It struck me at the time that Harjo’s poetry in particular touched something more emotional than intellect-centered academe could grasp . . . Read Review

“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

link to audio: http://www.npr.org/2012/07/09/156501436/joy-harjos-crazy-brave-path-to-finding-her-voice

“I was entrusted with carrying voices, songs, and stories to grow and release into the world, to be of assistance and inspiration,” she writes in her recent memoir, Crazy Brave. “These were my responsibility.”Read Interview

List of Interviews and Reviews from 2012 and previous.