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“For a remark­able three terms as U.S. poet lau­re­ate, Joy Har­jo has tire­less­ly pro­mot­ed Native poets and poet­ry,” Librar­i­an of Con­gress, Car­la Hay­den, said in a state­ment. ​“To her, poems are ​‘car­ri­ers of dreams, knowl­edge and wis­dom,’ and she has…

Joy Har­jo, the artist-in-res­i­dence for the new Bob Dylan Cen­ter, is the guest on the Gold­mine Pod­cast. Har­jo explains the impor­tance of the May 2022 open­ing of the Bob Dylan Cen­ter in Tul­sa, Oklahoma.

The U.S. poet lau­re­ate will spend six years pre­sent­ing edu­ca­tion­al pro­grams and live per­for­mances at the new cen­ter in Tul­sa. Read more

Excerpt­ed from the new mem­oir Poet War­rior, by Joy Har­jo with per­mis­sion from W. W. Nor­ton & Com­pa­ny. Read the excerpt at Sierra. 

Her new mem­oir Poet War­rior is a chron­i­cle of pain and injus­tice, of grow­ing up poor with an abu­sive step­fa­ther — but also of poet­ry and dis­cov­ery, of tak­ing that pain and using it to make art. Read/​listen here

Joy Har­jo reflects on loss and the things she con­tin­ues to hold dear — mem­o­ries of her late moth­er, Nava­jo horse songs — when describ­ing her jour­ney as a poet and cham­pi­on of jus­tice in her new mem­oir Poet War­rior. Read more

“My res­i­den­cy will allow this lega­cy to be extend­ed to the com­mu­ni­ty, to encour­age and share cre­ativ­i­ty. I am hon­ored to be part of this new venture.”