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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

Read more about this Atlanta Con­tem­po­rary Exhi­bi­tion where, ​“The voice of Joy Har­jo, our 23^rd and first Native Unit­ed States poet lau­re­ate, per­form­ing her own Stomp All Night, 2021, and This Morn­ing I Pray for My Ene­mies, 2021, pre­sides over it all.” 

The Acad­e­my of Amer­i­can Poets will present its 2022 Lead­er­ship Award in poet­ry to Joy Har­jo.

TUL­SA, Okla. — Okla­homa natives Leon Rus­sell and Joy Har­jo have been added to the Okla­homa Hall of Fame.

Har­jo is a poet and musi­cian from Tul­sa. She picked up the sax­o­phone at age 40, and has been hon­ored and…