The Harvard University Native American Program and the Harvard Art Museums 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)
Co-Sponsored by: American Reparatory Theater, Committee on Degrees in History & Literature (FAS), Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (FAS), Division of Arts & Humanities (FAS), Department of Anthropology (FAS), Department of English (FAS), Department of History of Art and Architecture (FAS), Division of Social Science (FAS), Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Office of the Dean, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Business School - Office of the Dean, Harvard Divinity School - Office of the Dean, Harvard Extension School, Division of Continuing Education - Office of the Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences – Office of the Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design - Office of Dean, Harvard Library, Harvard Medical School - Office of the Dean, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard School of Dental Medicine - Office of the Dean, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Office of the Dean, Houghton Library, Jean Chall Reading Lab (HGSE), Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (SEAS), Office of Sexual Assault Prevention & Response, Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnology, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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