Joy Harjo
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Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States poet laureate from 2019 to 2022, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms.
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The traditional ways and rituals of all of Earth's peoples are kept in containers of poetry, song, and story.
Catching the Light (2022)
When she broke on Earth, the light in her was not broken. We cannot break light, nor can we destroy it.
Catching the Light (2022)
Poetry (and other forms of writing) can be useful as a tool for finding the way into or through the dark.
Catching the Light (2022)
Awards 11
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Fannie FlaggAlso won Harper Lee Award
Axel HonnethAlso won honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne UniversityLucia BerlinAlso won American Book Awards
John AshberyAlso won Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Kwame Anthony AppiahAlso won National Humanities Medal
Percival EverettAlso won Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement AwardAbout this person
Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States poet laureate from 2019 to 2022, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms. Harjo is a seventh-generation Monahwee daughter. Additionally, Harjo is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976, and earned an MFA degree at the University of Iowa in its creative writing program.
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