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On the last day of Nation­al Poet­ry Month, we speak with incum­bent Unit­ed States Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo about the anthol­o­gy, When the Light of the World Was Sub­dued, Our Songs Came Through: A Nor­ton Anthol­o­gy of Native Nations Poet­ry…

I Pray For My Ene­mies is the name of the first new record­ing in a decade from Joy Har­jo, the first Native Amer­i­can to be named Poet Lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States. Lis­ten to the Radio show here

Every author has an ori­gin sto­ry. In her lat­est project, U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo cre­at­ed an inter­ac­tive map so peo­ple can read about the lives of Indige­nous poets. Read more

On Harjo’s epic, expan­sive, emo­tion­al­ly hard hit­ting, reflec­tive, provoca­tive and ulti­mate­ly heal­ing and dare we say joy­ful first album in a decade… READ MORE

Joy Har­jo, along with Bon­nie Raitt and the Indi­go Girls, each con­tributed vocals to a new sin­gle released Thurs­day to raise mon­ey and aware­ness for Stop Line 3 caus­es. Titled ​“No More Pipeline Blues (On This Land Where We Belong),”…

To cel­e­brate the twen­ty-fifth anniver­sary of Nation­al Poet­ry Month, in this last of the series of con­ver­sa­tions with three US Poets Lau­re­ate, Joy Har­jo dis­cuss­es her dig­i­tal map project, how Native peo­ple have been dis­ap­peared, and answers the…