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Joy Harjo

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Joy Harjo in 2014. Photo by Slowking. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Joy Harjo (born May 9, 1951) is a Native American poet, musician, and author of ancestry.

Life[]

Born in Tulsa,Oklahoma, Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is of Cherokee descent. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Known primarily as a poet, Harjo has also taught at the college level, played alto saxophone with a band called Poetic Justice, edited literary journals, and written screenplays.

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National Book Festival Presents Joy Harjo

Recognition[]

In 1995, Harjo received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.[1]

In September 2019, Harjo was appointed United States Poet Laureate.[2] She is the 23rd Poet Laureate, and the 1st Native American to hold the office.

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • The Last Song: Poems (chapbook). Las Cruces, NM: Puerto Del Sol Press, 1975.
  • What Moon Drove Me to This? (contains The Last Song). New York, NY: I. Reed Books, 1979.
  • She Had Some Horses. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983.
  • Secrets from the Center of the World (prose poems; photos by Steven Strom). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press (Sun Tracks), 1989.
  • In Mad Love and War. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1990.
  • Fishing. 1992.
  • The Woman Who Fell From the Sky: Poems. New York: Norton, 1994.
  • How We Became Human: New and selected poems, 1975-2001. New York: Norton, 2002.

Non-fiction[]

  • The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (edited by Laura Coltelli). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
  • Tanaya Winder, Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011.
  • Crazy Brave: A memoir. New York: Norton, 2012.

Juvenile[]

  • Rescue of the Missing Buffalo (illustrated by Patricia Lucas-Morris). Columbus, OH: SRA Macmillan / McGraw-Hill, 1995.
  • The Good Luck Cat (illustrated by Paul Lee). San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 2000.
  • For a Girl Becoming (illustrated by Mercedes McDonald). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2009.

Collected editions[]

  • A Map to the Next World: Poetry and tales. New York: Norton, 2000.
  • Poems and Stories. Boston: Ploughshares 30-4, Winter 2004-2005.

Edited[]

  • Reinventing the Enemy's Language: North American native women's writing (edited with Gloria Bird). New York: Norton, 1997.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat..[3]

Audio / video[]

Video[]

Film scripts[]

  • Apache Crown Dance. Silver Cloud Video, 1985
  • (coauthor) The Beginning, Native American Broadcasting Consortium

Teleplays[]

  • We Are One, Uhonho, 1984
  • Maiden of Deception Pass, 1985
  • I Am Different from My Brother, 1986
  • The Runaway, 1986.

Except where noted, a/v information courtesy the Poetry Foundation.[2]

Audio[]

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Joy Harjo A Poem to Get Rid of Fear

Eagle_Poem_by_Joy_Harjo

Eagle Poem by Joy Harjo

Poet_Joy_Harjo_Reads_a_Thanksgiving_Poem

Poet Joy Harjo Reads a Thanksgiving Poem

Poet_Joy_Harjo_reads_from_Conflict_Resolution_for_Holy_Beings

Poet Joy Harjo reads from Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

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Joy Harjo reading 2 poems at the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival

Poetry recordings[]

  • Furious Light (cassette). Washington, DC: Watershed Foundation, 1985.
  • Joy Harjo (cassette). Kansas City, Mo. : University of Missouri, 1991.
  • Joy Harjo Reading. Aspen, CO: Aspen Writers' Foundation, 1991.
  • The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems (cassette). Albuquerque, NM: C & D Spots Studio, 1994.
  • Native Joy for Real (CD). [Albuquerque, NM?]: Mekko Productions, 2004.
  • She Had Some Horses (CD). Mekko Productions, 2006.
  • Winding Through the Milky Way (CD). Mekko Productions, 2008.
  • Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears (CD). [Albuquerque, NM?]: Mekko Productions, 2010.

Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice[]

  • Letter From the End of the Twentieth Century (music CD). Boulder, CO : Silver Wave Records, 1997.

Except where noted, discographical information courtesy WorldCat.. [3]

See also[]

References[]

  • Bochynski, Pegge. Review of "How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001 by Joy Harjo". Magill’s Literary Annual, 2003. Ed. John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2003. Pages 379-383.
  • "Joy Harjo" by Pegge Bochynski, in American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Supplement XII edited by Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. Pages 215-234.
  • “She Had Some Horses” by Pegge Bochynski in Masterplots II, Poetry, Revised edition. Ed. Philip K. Jason. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2002. Pages 3369-3371.
  • Stone, Louise M. Update and revision by Pegge Bochynski. “Joy Harjo” in Magill Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition. Ed. Steven G. Kellman. Pasadena, Calif. Salem Press, 2006. Pages 980-988.

Notes[]

  1. ↑ List of NWCA Lifetime Achievement Awards, accessed 6 Aug 2010.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Joy Harjo b. 1951, Poetry Foundation, Web, March 3, 2020.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Search results = Joy Harjo, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 11, 2014.

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