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Librar­i­an of Con­gress Car­la Hay­den has appoint­ed Joy Har­jo to serve a sec­ond term as the nation’s 23^rd Poet Lau­re­ate Con­sul­tant in Poet­ry for 2020 – 2021. Dur­ing her sec­ond term, Har­jo will launch a new Library of Con­gress col­lec­tion and online…

Joy Har­jo has been appoint­ed to a sec­ond term as the nation’s poet lau­re­ate, the Library of Con­gress announced on Thurs­day. The first Native Amer­i­can to hold the posi­tion, Har­jo will be devel­op­ing an inter­ac­tive map of con­tem­po­rary Native poets…

In search of insight in this time of pesti­lence, we turn to U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo. Har­jo, the first Native Amer­i­can to be named poet lau­re­ate, is both an award-win­ning musi­cian and author of several…

Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute read­ings by poets that are live streamed on Twit­ter & post­ed on our Archive, Face­book and YouTube on Wednes­days and Fri­days at Noon – to keep our com­mu­ni­ty thriving…

*** Joy Har­jo (Musco­gee / Creek) the Poet Lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States (and NEA Big Read author) joins me this week for a far-rang­ing con­ver­sa­tion about poet­ry and music. Lis­ten to the pod­cast here.

Read­ing in the Dark: Poets reflect on poems they return to in dif­fi­cult times. Read Joy Har­jo’s selec­tion here.

Joy Har­jo: ​‘What joins us togeth­er is poet­ry’ Har­jo reflects on her child­hood, the way the kitchen table unites us and the renewed con­nec­tions she hopes will emerge out of this dif­fi­cult time.

Joy Har­jo records her­self read­ing her poem, ​“For Call­ing the Spir­it Back From Wan­der­ing the Earth on Its Human Feet,” for Bill Moyers

The first Native Amer­i­can poet lau­re­ate talks about hear­ing the col­lec­tive heart of the coun­try, and the impor­tance of listening.

Lis­ten to an inter­view with Joy Har­jo on Lin­da Sivert­sen’s Beau­ti­ful Writ­ers Pod­cast. Vis­it the blog: https://​book​ma​ma​.com/​b​e​a​u​t​i​f​u​l​-​w​r​i​t​e​r​s​-​p​o​d​c​a​s​t​/​j​o​y​-​h​a​r​j​o​-​p​o​e​t​-​l​a​u​r​e​a​t​e​-​o​f​-​t​h​e​-​u​s​-​o​n​-​t​h​e​-​b​e​a​u​t​i​f​u​l​-​w​r​i​t​e​r​s​-​p​o​d​cast/ or on iTunes.