Media: Interviews, Reviews, Articles

April 30, 2021, The Columbia Chronicle
Poet Laureate launches project to commemorate Indigenous communities

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

April 27, 2021, Music Connection - May 2021 Issue
Album Review: "I Pray for My Enemies"

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

April 22, 2021, Treble
April 22, 2021, Third Coast Review
April 22, 2021, Red Lake Nation News
April 22, 2021, Minnesota Star Tribune
Bonnie Raitt and Indigo Girls join Minnesota activists in new Line 3 protest song

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),”…

April 22, 2021, World Literature Today
Opening the Doorways of Recognition for Native People: A Conversation with Joy Harjo

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…

April 21, 2021, The Rolling Stones
Joy Harjo, Bonnie Raitt, Indigo Girls Appear on ‘No More Pipeline Blues (On this Land Where We Belong)’

Joy Har­jo, with Bon­nie Raitt and the Indi­go Girls are among the many voic­es fea­tured on No More Pipeline Blues (On this Land Where We Belong),” out on Earth Day (April 22nd) via Rock…

April 18, 2021, The Lily - The Washington Post
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo reflects on the lessons, rituals and gifts of the pandemic year

Har­jo reflects on the lessons of the pan­dem­ic year, and how poet­ry can help us chart a way to a kinder, more har­mo­nious world. Read more here

April 16, 2021, Iowa Public Radio
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo On Her New Album "I Pray For My Enemies"

Har­jo joins Talk of Iowa host Char­i­ty Nebbe to learn how this album came to be and how she is able to know when a cre­ative idea is a song or poem. Lis­ten to the radio inter­view here