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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.

This week on New Mex­i­co in Focus, we cel­e­brate Joy Har­jo, a ground­break­ing poet and New Mex­i­co trea­sure. Cor­re­spon­dent Megan Kam­er­ick caught up with Har­jo at a poet­ry read­ing in San­ta Fe to talk about why she sees the poet…

Joy Har­jo, the U.S. poet lau­re­ate, was born and raised in Okla­homa, but New Mex­i­co has been her sec­ond home. She thinks of her­self as a ​“dual cit­i­zen” of the two states.

“Why is Beau­ty Impor­tant to Us”? Joy Har­jo responds with a new poem, ​“The Life of Beauty.”

Joy Har­jo, named a ​“Tul­san of the Year,” is inter­viewed by James D. Watts, Jr. of Tul­sa World.