#  Native Americans and the National Consciousness: Virtual Reading and Conversation with Joy Harjo 

 



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 **April 5, 2021** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Zoom Webinar**  



 

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##  Speaker: Joy Harjo

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 The **[Harvard University Native American Program](https://hunap.harvard.edu/)** and the [Harvard Art Museums](https://harvardartmuseums.org/)** present a reading and conversation with Joy Harjo, the 23rd poet laureate of the United States.Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer, who is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). The author of nine books of poetry, several plays and children’s books, and a memoir ("Crazy Brave"), she has received many honors, including the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, a PEN USA Literary Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund Writers’ Award, a Rasmuson U.S. Artists Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Harjo is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a founding board member of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. She is executive editor of the forthcoming anthology "When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry," released in 2020. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a Tulsa Artist Fellow.

 *Presented by:*

 *[Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)](https://hunap.harvard.edu/)*

 *Co-Sponsored by: [American Reparatory Theater](https://americanrepertorytheater.org/), [Committee on Degrees in History & Literature (FAS)](https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/), [Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (FAS)](https://emr.fas.harvard.edu/), [Division of Arts & Humanities (FAS)](https://artsandhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/), [Department of Anthropology (FAS)](https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/), [Department of English (FAS)](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/), [Department of History of Art and Architecture (FAS)](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/), [Division of Social Science (FAS)](https://socialscience.fas.harvard.edu/), [Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Office of the Dean](https://www.fas.harvard.edu/), [Harvard Art Museums](https://harvardartmuseums.org/), [Harvard Business School - Office of the Dean](https://www.hbs.edu/Pages/default.aspx), [Harvard Divinity School - Office of the Dean](https://hds.harvard.edu/home), [Harvard Extension School, Division of Continuing Education - Office of the Dean](https://www.extension.harvard.edu/about-us/meet-the-dean), [Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences – Office of the Dean](https://gsas.harvard.edu/about/staff), [Harvard Graduate School of Design - Office of Dean](https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/), [Harvard Library](https://library.harvard.edu/), [Harvard Medical School - Office of the Dean](https://hms.harvard.edu/), [Harvard Museums of Science & Culture](https://hmsc.harvard.edu/), [Harvard School of Dental Medicine - Office of the Dean](https://hsdm.harvard.edu/), [Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Office of the Dean](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/), [Houghton Library](https://library.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton), [Jean Chall Reading Lab (HGSE)](https://guides.library.harvard.edu/JeanneChall/readinglab), [Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard](/), [Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (SEAS)](https://dib.harvard.edu/), [Office of Sexual Assault Prevention & Response](https://osapr.harvard.edu/), [Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnology](https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/), [Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study](https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/)*



 

 



 

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