Media: Interviews, Reviews, Articles

Category: Radio

May 11, 2021, WAMU Radio - 1A - NPR
April 30, 2021, WNMU-FM All Things Considered
Interview with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, "I Pray For My Enemies"

I Pray For My Enemies is the name of the first new recording in a decade from Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be named Poet Laureate of the United States. Listen to the Radio show here

April 16, 2021, Iowa Public Radio
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo On Her New Album "I Pray For My Enemies"

Harjo joins Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe to learn how this album came to be and how she is able to know when a creative idea is a song or poem. Listen to the radio interview here

April 14, 2021, KUNM Native American Calling
April 13, 2021, Spokane Public Radio
Soundspace Interview with Joy Harjo

Join Zan as she hosts a phone interview with multi-instrumentalist musician, poet, performer and activist Joy Harjo, 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate (and first Native American), as she speaks about what inspired her recent album, I Pray for My Enemies, with...

March 05, 2021, WNYC w/ Brian Lehrer
America Are We Ready for the First 100 Days?

Join the national conversation with host Brian Lehrer as the Biden/Harris administration starts its work.

President Biden’s nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland (D, NM) to be Secretary of the Interior would put a Native American (Laguna Pueblo) in...

March 05, 2021, Public Radio Tulsa
"I Pray for My Enemies" -- A New Album from the Acclaimed Poet and Musician Joy Harjo

We are pleased to welcome Joy Harjo back to StudioTulsa. The poet, writer, performer, and musician is the current United State Poet Laureate. She's also a Tulsa resident, and a Tulsa Artist Fellow. Harjo joins us to discuss her new...

January 15, 2021, South Dakota Public Radio
In the Moment . . . Arts

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.

October 09, 2020, PBS News Hour
Joy Harjo on how a new Native poetry anthology fills a gap in American literature

Joy Harjo interviewed for PBS News Hour about the new Norton anthology, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through.

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.