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Joy Har­jo is among those whose words will be pro­ject­ed for the out­door instal­la­tion, SPEECH ITSELF — a visu­al trib­ute to the cher­ished free­doms to write, read, and speak. Learn More

OKMUL­GEE, Okla­homa – The Musco­gee (Creek) Nation wants to cel­e­brate Joy Harjo’s tenure as a three term 23^rd U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate by a cel­e­bra­to­ry gath­er­ing just west of the Mound Build­ing on the evening of August 26.

JOY HAR­JO, VOCE DEI NATIVE AMERICANS(NELLA POE­SIA MA ANCHE NEL JAZZ)

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Phoebe Mills Far­ris, Ph.D. (Powhatan-Pamunkey), a Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­fes­sor Emeri­ta, pho­tog­ra­ph­er, free­lance art crit­ic, and Cul­tur­al Sur­vival Quar­ter­ly con­tribut­ing Arts Edi­tor, spoke with Har­jo at First Peo­ples Fund’s We The Peo­ples Before event on June…

LIV­ING NATIONS, LIV­ING WORDS has been cho­sen for NEA’s Read Across Amer­i­ca for Novem­ber 2022! Learn more about this pro­gram here.

Joy Har­jo’s poem, ​“An Ordi­nary Morn­ing,” appears in the August 8, 2022 issue of The New York­er. Read it online here.

Three-term poet lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo will be the focus of this Saturday’s Spot­light Series at Tanglewood’s Sei­ji Oza­wa Hall in Lenox, MA at 5PM. Lis­ten to the inter­view here. 

Mem­oir, poet­ry, and crit­i­cism come togeth­er in this slim but potent trea­tise on ​“the why of writ­ing poet­ry” from Har­jo (Poet War­rior: A Mem­oir). Catch­ing the Light will be released by Yale Uni­ver­si­ty Press in Octo­ber 2022

Ran­dom House Children’s Books announced Wednes­day that Harjo’s ​“Remem­ber,” adapt­ed from her cel­e­brat­ed poem of the same name, is sched­uled for March 21, 2023. The book will fea­ture illus­tra­tions by the award-win­ning Michaela Goade. Read about it here

Ada Limon, host of The Slow­down pod­cast reads ​“With­out,” by Joy Har­jo: ​“the incred­i­ble poet and human who served as Poet Lau­re­ate for an unprece­dent­ed three terms.” Lis­ten here