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In 2019, Joy Har­jo became the first Native Amer­i­can Poet Lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States. She joins us from her home­town Tul­sa, Okla­homa to talk about the respon­si­bil­i­ties that come with this hon­or and the impor­tance of rep­re­sent­ing rich Native…

New­ly named poet lau­re­ate and Ruth Lil­ly prize – win­ner Har­jo (Con­flict Res­o­lu­tion for Holy Beings) inter­twines verse with prose vignettes, oral his­to­ries, and flash mem­oirs in this expres­sive and gen­er­ous book. 

Joy Har­jo is inter­viewed by Grace Cav­a­lieri on the Library of Con­gress’s orig­i­nal ​“Poet and the Poem” pod­cast series. 

Joy is inter­viewed for NBC News’ Sun­day TODAY with Willie Geist, Sun­day Oct. 20. 

Oprah Win­frey and Joy Har­jo have a con­ver­sa­tion on Oprah’s Super­Soul Con­ver­sa­tions Pod­cast.

Oprah Win­frey has a con­ver­sa­tion with Joy Har­jo on Super­Soul Sun­day, aired on the OWN net­work on Octo­ber 6. 

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Joy Har­jo, the new poet lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States, is the first Native Amer­i­can to achieve that hon­or. Jef­frey Brown recent­ly sat down with Har­jo, a mem­ber of Okla­homa’s Musco­gee Creek Nation, in Tul­sa to…

Tomor­row, Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 19, at 7 p.m., Joy Har­jo will take the stage of the Coolidge Audi­to­ri­um in the Library of Congress’s Jef­fer­son Build­ing for the first time as 23^rd Poet Lau­re­ate Con­sul­tant in Poet­ry. To mark this his­toric occasion…

Joy Har­jo is a crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed poet and musi­cian and she is the first Native Amer­i­can to be named US poet lau­re­ate.https://​www​.rnz​.co​.nz/​n​a​t​ional…

The fol­low­ing guest post is by Judith Gray, coor­di­na­tor of Ref­er­ence Ser­vices in the Library’s Amer­i­can Folk­life Cen­ter. This is the fifth and final post in a series doc­u­ment­ing Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Harjo’s sum­mer­time meet­ings with librar­i­ans and cura­tors across…