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Musco­gee (Creek) poet Joy Har­jo has been on the move.

Since being named U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate in June 2019, the author has only been able to touch down briefly in Tul­sa, her home­town, before being called else­where to speak or…

Lis­ten to the full audio of Joy Har­jo’s read­ing at the UCLA Ham­mer Muse­um in Feb­ru­ary 2020!

Poet­ry Unbound, a new series from On Being Radio, fea­tures Joy Har­jo’s ​“Praise the Rain,” read and dis­cussed by Pádraig Ó Tua­ma. About Poet­ry Unbound: Short and unhur­ried; con­tem­pla­tive and ener­giz­ing. Anchor your week by lis­ten­ing to the every­day poetry…

Inter­view with Rob Casper, Head of LOC Poet­ry & Lit­er­a­ture Cen­ter: In the past week, we have been think­ing a lot about this unprece­dent­ed moment and how poet­ry might help us live through it. We have also been talk­ing to…

Library of Con­gress blog posts about Joy Har­jo. Check in reg­u­lar­ly for updat­ed blog posts, as well as web­casts and recordings! 

“I take an abid­ing plea­sure in know­ing that Joy Har­jo is the poet lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States. After all, Har­jo — a mem­ber of the Musco­gee (Creek) Nation and the first Native Amer­i­can to be so hon­ored — speaks for an Amer­i­ca I…

Eliz­a­beth Cook-Lynn on Read­ing Joy Harjo

“As the first Native Amer­i­can U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate, Har­jo has been out­spo­ken about injus­tices done to Natives in the U.S.” Read more about Joy Har­jo and her poet­ry, report­ing from the Palm Beach Poet­ry Festival.

When you’re asked to be poet lau­re­ate, is that some­thing you say yes to imme­di­ate­ly, or do you think about what it entails?

I said yes. [Laughs.] It’s like light­ning going through you. I real­ized in that moment that I…

Ibti­sam Barakat, Pales­tin­ian Amer­i­can poet, artist, and trans­la­tor, offers an Ara­bic trans­la­tion of ​“Remem­ber” for World Lit­er­a­ture Today.