Media: Interviews, Reviews, Articles

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…

“Har­jo, though very much a poet of Amer­i­ca, extracts from her own per­son­al and cul­tur­al touch­stones a more galac­tal under­stand­ing of the world, and her poems become rich­er for it.” —The New Yorker

The fol­low­ing guest post is by Kather­ine Blood and Melis­sa Lind­berg of the Library’s Prints and Pho­tographs Divi­sion. This is the fourth in a series of five posts doc­u­ment­ing Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Harjo’s sum­mer­time meet­ings with librar­i­ans and cura­tors across…