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From the Wall Street Jour­nal’s Week­end Con­fi­den­tial, 11/18/22:

The first Native to serve as U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate believes that poems can give us ​‘new ways to speak with each oth­er’ at a time of division.

Author Tom­my Orange dis­cuss­es the plight of the urban Native Amer­i­can, cou­pled with a com­plex and painful his­to­ry but also an inher­i­tance of pro­found beau­ty and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty. Also, for­mer US Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo per­forms her poet­ry in song.

Joy Har­jo has always cut her own path. So the new ​“Weav­ing Sun­down in a Scar­let Light” isn’t like oth­er poet­ry ret­ro­spec­tives. At 127 pages — includ­ing a San­dra Cis­neros fore­word, notes on the poems and oth­er pages with­out poems…

Nov. 14, 2022: On Monday’s show: We talk with Joy Har­jo, the first Native Amer­i­can U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate (begin­ning at 23 min 48 sec) 

Unit­ed States Poet Lau­re­ate for 2019, Joy Harjo’s ​“Poet war­rior: a mem­oir” is a med­i­ta­tion on love, grief, jus­tice and heal­ing in her rela­tion­ship with her fam­i­ly, her cul­ture and her art. 

“These poems tak­en from half a cen­tu­ry of Harjo’s work show the powerful…

Joy Har­jo, Weav­ing Sun­down in a Scar­let Light(W. W. Norton)

“[Harjo’s] poet­ry is light and elixir, the very best pre­scrip­tion for us in wound­ed times.”–The Mil­lions

INTER­VIEW WITH JOY HAR­JO by LEIGH HOP­KINS | OCT 2022 | ISSUE 19

“I read Catch­ing the Light in one day, total­ly immersed in lan­guage and sto­ry. When I reached the last page, I felt full of pos­si­bil­i­ty — not…

For the week of Octo­ber 16, CATCH­ING THE LIGHT is one of Okla­homa’s Best Sell­ers in Nonfiction! 

The first Native Amer­i­can U.S. poet lau­re­ate explains how she freed her­self from the com­pli­ca­tions of a hard­scrab­ble child­hood. Excerpt­ed from CATCH­ING THE LIGHT