The Quarantine Tapes: Quotation Shorts - Joy Harjo
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Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is serving her second term as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States.
The author of nine books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise, several plays and children's books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior: A Call for Love and Justice, her many honors include the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. As a musician and performer, Harjo has produced six award-winning music albums including her newest, I Pray for My Enemies (Sunyata Records). She is Executive Editor of the anthology When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry and the editor of Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry, the companion anthology to her signature Poet Laureate project. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and holds a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
For more information about Harjo:
Joy Harjo reads her poem ‘Running’.
“The Quarantine Tapes 153: Joy Harjo”:
https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-153-joy-harjo
Joy Harjo on how a new Native poetry anthology fills a gap in American literature”
https://artscanvas.org/books/joy-harjo-on-how-a-new-native-poetry-anthology-fills-a-gap-in-american-literature
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