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June 24, 2023, The Hollywood Reporter
Netflix Renews ‘Spirit Rangers’ for Season 3, Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo to Pen an Episode (Exclusive)

Cre­at­ed by Hol­ly­wood’s first Cal­i­for­nia Native showrun­ner, the his­toric ani­mat­ed preschool series’ sec­ond sea­son debuted on May 8.

June 16, 2023, The Hollywood Reporter
Netflix Renews ‘Spirit Rangers’ for Season 3, Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo to Pen an Episode (Exclusive)

Cre­at­ed by Hol­ly­wood’s first Cal­i­for­nia Native showrun­ner, the his­toric ani­mat­ed preschool series’ sec­ond sea­son debuted on May 8.

June 14, 2023, Deadline
America Gets A New National Anthem In Tribeca Doc From Director Peter Nicks, Producer Ryan Coogler

Air­ing June 28 on HULU: Anthem fol­lows acclaimed com­pos­er Kris Bow­ers (Bridger­ton, When They See Us, King Richard) and Gram­my-win­ning music pro­duc­er Dahi (Travis Scott, Kendrick Lamar, Drake) as they take a musi­cal jour­ney trav­el­ing across Amer­i­ca to cre­ate a…

June 14, 2023, Reading the West
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light Wins 33rd Reading the West Book Award!

Joy Har­jo’s WEAV­ING SUN­DOWN INSCAR­LET LIGHT wins the 33rd Annu­al Read­ing the West Book Award for Poet­ry! Read about the oth­er win­ners and final­ists here.

May 25, 2023, WELL + GOOD
Writing Poetry Helps Me Cope With Depression—But Are Mental Health Struggles Required for My Creativity?

What often fol­lows peri­ods of decay and destruc­tion and chaos is rebuild­ing and renais­sance — peri­ods of fresh inven­tion in thought, in art,” for­mer U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo told USA Today in Feb­ru­ary 2021. That’s what often…

May 25, 2023, Santa Barbara Independent
A Lesson in Resilience and the Teachings of Poetry

Har­jo was the per­fect choice for the Mul­ti­Cul­tur­al Center’s Resilient Love series. To read her poet­ry, songs, mem­oirs, and plays is to under­stand how she nav­i­gates obsta­cles and ris­es above them.

May 24, 2023, Buckrail
Center for the Arts welcomes series of Native American art exhibits in June

The event with the U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate (20192022) and win­ner of the Pen USA Lit­er­ary Award for Non­fic­tion will take place on June 16 at 7 p.m. at The Cen­ter The­ater. Read more about this event! 

May 22, 2023, Shepherd
Listed on Shepherd: Discover the Best Books - An American Sunrise

Shep­herd author picks Har­jo’s An Amer­i­can Sun­rise as one of her favorite books. Read more and dis­cov­er great books on Shep­herd today.

May 16, 2023, Notes from America with Kai Wright
Joy Harjo and Native Stories

Before she was the 23rd U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate, Joy Harjo’s jour­ney as an artist began at a fed­er­al Indi­an board­ing school. She reveals an unex­pect­ed per­spec­tive about her experience.

May 15, 2023, Kirkus Reviews
Revisiting a Groundbreaking Book of Native Writing

A quar­ter-cen­tu­ry on, Rein­vent­ing the Enemy’s Lan­guage remains in print, con­sid­ered a clas­sic and wide­ly taught in Native Amer­i­can lit­er­a­ture classes.