Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gives an inspiring talk and reading at 4 p.m. March 23 in the Great Hall at Crystal Bridges. Harjo's visit is part of a series of events to mark the closing of ...

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President Joe Biden presented trailblazing Tulsan and Native American poet, performer and writer Joy Harjo with the National ...

After an opening poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, the symposium will bring together Native advocates, attorneys, scholars, writers, and museum leaders to share conversations from their areas ...

In urgent, lyrical lines, U.S. poet laureate Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek ... new clothes, and joy for you”). As fluid, saturated images dotted with horses and rainbows follow the ...

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Joy Harjo studied at the University of New Mexico and received an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her rich multicultural lineage–Harjo’s mother was part Cherokee, French, and Irish; her father was ...