Joy Harjo is the United States Poet Laureate, since 2019. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951, Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Harjo has authored nine books of poetry, several plays and children's books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior. Among the numerous awards and honors she has received are the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
As a musician and international performer, Harjo plays saxophone and flutes solo, often bringing together session musicians to form her back-up Arrow Dynamics Band. She has produced seven award-winning albums. Her newest album is entitled I Pray for My Enemies. She is Executive Editor of the anthology When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. Harjo is more recently the editor of Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry. The anthology serves as a companion piece to her signature Poet Laureate project of the same name, which includes an interactive story map of first nations poetry along with audio recordings of 47 contemporary Native poets reading and discussing their work.
Harjo serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, is Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and holds a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Books by Joy Harjo in McQuade
An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS3558.A62423 A64 2019
ISBN: 9781324003861
Publication Date: 2019-08-13
Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS3558 .A62423 Z46 2012
ISBN: 9780393345438
Publication Date: 2013-07-29
She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS3558.A62423 S5 2008
ISBN: 9780393334210
Publication Date: 2008-12-17
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS3558.A62423 A6 2015
ISBN: 9780393353631
Publication Date: 2017-01-24
Reinventing the Enemy's Language by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS508.I5 R38 1997
ISBN: 0393040291
Publication Date: 1997-05-01
A Map to the Next World by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS3558.A62 M36 2001
ISBN: 9780393320961
Publication Date: 2001-03-17
In Mad Love and War by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS3558 .A6242 I6 1990
ISBN: 0819521809
Publication Date: 1990-05-21
The Spiral of Memory by Joy Harjo; Laura Coltelli (Editor)
Call Number: PS3558.A62423 Z466 1996
ISBN: 0472095811
Publication Date: 1995-12-31
Secrets from the Center of the World by Joy Harjo; Stephen E. Strom (By (photographer))
Call Number: PS501 .S85 vol. 17
ISBN: 0816511136
Publication Date: 1989-07-01
How We Became Human by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS3558.A62423 H69 2002
ISBN: 0393051013
Publication Date: 2002-07-01
Soul Talk, Song Language by Joy Harjo; Tanaya Winder; Laura Coltelli (Other)
Call Number: PS3558.A62423 Z46 2011
ISBN: 9780819571502
Publication Date: 2011-10-15
For a Girl Becoming by Joy Harjo; Mercedes McDonald (Illustrator)
Call Number: [ERC] PS3558.A62423 F67 2009
ISBN: 9780816527977
Publication Date: 2009-10-15
The Good Luck Cat by Joy Harjo; Paul Lee (Illustrator)