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Joy Harjo ( / ˈhɑːrdʒoʊ / HAR-joh; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms (after Robert Pinsky ).
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's 2024 Frost Medal.
Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She earned her BA from the University of New Mexico and MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Harjo draws on First Nation storytelling and histories, as well as feminist and social justice poetic traditions, and…
21 dic 2022 · Poets. Joy Harjo is a poet, musician and writer who became the first Native American to serve as poet laureate of the United States. Getty Images / J. Vespa / Contributor. (1951-) Who Is Joy...
9 mag 2024 · Joy Harjo, American poet, writer, academic, musician, and Native American activist whose poems featured Indian symbolism, imagery, history, and ideas set within a universal context. Her poetry also dealt with social and personal issues, notably feminism, and with music, particularly jazz.
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27 giu 2022 · Joy Harjo. 1951 –. United States Poet Laureate, 2019–2022. Read poems by this poet. browse lesson plans featuring joy harjo's poems. read an interview with joy harjo. Joy Harjo was appointed the United States poet laureate in June 2019, and is the first Native American poet laureate in the history of the position.
Joy Harjo, the 23 rd Poet Laureate of the United States, is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. She is only the second poet to be appointed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she left home to attend high school at the innovative Institute of American Indian Arts, which was then a Bureau of ...
