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Joy Har­jo’s REMEM­BER not­ed on the Library of Con­gress bookshelves

Joy Har­jo’s sig­na­ture project as US poet lau­re­ate was pub­lished as an intri­cate­ly designed online expe­ri­ence and as the epony­mous print­ed anthol­o­gy Liv­ing Nations, Liv­ing Words.

“At 75, Joy Har­jo is bal­anc­ing two autumn book releas­es, the ongo­ing devel­op­ment of a musi­cal and the unveil­ing of her jazzy new album of evoca­tive poems and songs.” Read more

In this reflec­tive nar­ra­tive, for­mer U.S. poet lau­re­ate Har­jo, a mem­ber of the Mvskoke Nation, and Anishi­naabe artist Paw­is-Steck­ley (This Is How I Know) por­tray an Indige­nous cus­tom of going out at sun­rise ​“to greet the day,/ To respect, to…