Media: Interviews, Reviews, Articles

50 years into her career, [Har­jo] has writ­ten some­thing of a mem­oir — part of Yale Uni­ver­si­ty Press’ ​“Why I Write” series — about the ​“why” of writ­ing poet­ry. In 50 vignettes, Har­jo recalls the moments that shaped her own journey.

U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo returns to stores this month with Catch­ing the Light — a must-read for any fan of poet­ry and lit­er­a­ture. This new mem­oir con­tains Harjo’s rumi­na­tions on a half-cen­tu­ry of writ­ing and activism.

Joy Har­jo among 20 influ­en­tial Indige­nous Amer­i­cans, along with Wilma Mankiller, Sacheen Lit­tle­feath­er, and Allan Houser. 

Episode 9 of ​“Poet­ry is Bread” with host Bob Hol­man and Joy Har­jo, an inter­na­tion­al­ly renowned per­former and writer of the Musco­gee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23^rd Poet Lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States from 2019 – 2022. Get…

BARD AT THE GATE Sea­son 3 Announced Fea­tur­ing 4 Plays by Women, Includ­ing US Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Harjo

Last year Rema­tri­a­tion had the hon­or to sit down with Joy to dis­cuss her posi­tion as 23^rd Unit­ed States Poet Lau­re­ate. She shares her feel­ings on being an inductee to the Nation­al Women’s Hall of Fame…

VERY IMPOR­TANT INTER­VIEW. The nation’s 23^rd Poet Lau­re­ate Con­sul­tant in Poet­ry stopped by to speak about the nature of cre­ativ­i­ty, and reveals what she knows about aliens. Har­jo will be per­form­ing at the upcom­ing 10 year anniver­sary at Guthrie Green…

Lis­ten here to the full episode of Poet­ry with Pais­ley, Joy Har­jo’s work and advocacy