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For­mer U.S. poet lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo has won an hon­orary award for life­time achievement.

This year’s recip­i­ent of the Ivan San­drof Life­time Achieve­ment Award will be for­mer U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate Joy Har­jo. Rec­og­niz­ing her three terms in the pres­ti­gious nation­al post and as ​“a lead­ing voice for Native Amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ties on and off…

Native-led orga­ni­za­tions and Native Amer­i­can artists are receiv­ing a well-deserved increase in pub­lic atten­tion, recog­ni­tion, and sup­port. Joy Har­jo was hon­ored at the Nation­al Arts Awards with the 2022 Life­time Achieve­ment Award. Read more

VER­DICT Har­jo is a nation­al trea­sure, per­haps even a nation­al resource, and this impor­tant book is an essen­tial addi­tion to con­tem­po­rary poet­ry col­lec­tions everywhere.

"In one of the 50 vignettes that make up "Catching the Light," Joy Harjo tells of receiving an image via Facebook Messenger from an old friend in Lukachukai, a mountainous area of the Navajo Nation in Arizona."

“In these two very dif­fer­ent works on writ­ing by two very dif­fer­ent writ­ers, there is much for fans and for writ­ers alike.” Read more about Har­jo’s CATCH­ING THE LIGHT

On Har­jo’s POET WAR­RIOR: It’s a spe­cial kind of mem­oir in that it is with­out a doubt about Joy Harjo’s life and work…but it’s also about poet­ry, about pol­i­tics, about the art of the poet­ic craft, and about being a…

Fea­tur­ing Joy Har­jo, Com­men­tary by Kwame Dawes

In one of the 50 vignettes that make up "Catching the Light," Joy Harjo tells of receiving an image via Facebook Messenger from an old friend in Lukachukai, a mountainous area of the Navajo Nation in Arizona.

A starred review by Kirkus Reviews for REMEM­BER, a pic­ture-book adap­ta­tion of a work by for­mer U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate Har­jo, illus­trat­ed by Calde­cott medal­ist Goade