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Before she was the 23^rd 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.

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

Joy Har­jo among one of the Ten Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Women Poets in U.S. His­to­ry and Present

Esteemed Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co alum­na Joy Har­jo is bring­ing dra­ma to her alma mater.

Joy Harjo’s work is root­ed in the Native com­mu­ni­ty, a respect that’s shared by the poet and writer Layli Long Soldier.

From Her Accep­tance Speech for the Ivan San­drof Life­time Achieve­ment Award at The Nation­al Book Crit­ics Cir­cle Awards

Rachel Zuck­er of Com­mon­place Pod­cast speaks with Joy Har­jo, inter­na­tion­al­ly renowned per­former and writer of the Musco­gee (Creek) Nation about jazz, grief, sec­ond sight, teach­ing, and so much more. 

Joy Har­jo joins The Take­away to dis­cuss Remem­ber, reflect on her time as the U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate, and share thoughts on how indi­gene­ity informs the themes of her poetry.

Join PBS KIDS and Unit­ed States Poet Lau­re­ate, Joy Har­jo in a very spe­cial read­ing of one of her poems, ​“Remem­ber” from her book, ​“How We Became Humans.”