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Joy Harjo (/ ˈ h ɑːr dʒ oʊ / 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.
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…
In REMEMBER, acclaimed Indigenous creators Joy Harjo and Michaela Goade invite young readers to pause and reflect on family, nature, their heritage, and the world around them. This timeless poem paired with magnificent paintings makes for a picture book that is a true celebration of life and our human role within it.
Joy Harjo on inspiration behind memoir 'Poet Warrior' NPR. October 11, 2021, NPR - All Things Considered.
21 dic 2022 · Joy Harjo is a poet, musician and writer who became the first Native American to serve as poet laureate of the United States.
9 mag 2024 · Joy Harjo (born May 9, 1951, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.) is an American poet, writer, academic, musician, and Native American activist whose poems feature Indian symbolism, imagery, history, and ideas set within a universal context.
