Episode 109: Joy Harjo
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Rachel speaks with Joy Harjo, internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation about jazz, grief, second sight, teaching, and so much more. Joy Harjo served three terms as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years.
Books and Selected Other Work by Joy Harjo
POETRY
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: 50 Poems for 50 Years (W.W. Norton, 2022)
How We Became Human New & Selected Poems: 1975-2001 (W. W. Norton, 2004)
Secrets from the Center of the World, w. Stephen Strom (University of Arizona Press, 1989)
NONFICTION
Catching the Light (Why I Write Series, Yale University Press, 2022)
The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (Poets on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1995)
PLAYS
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
For a Girl Becoming, w. Mercedes McDonald (University of Arizona Press, 2009)
The Good Luck Cat, w. Paul Lee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000)
Remember (Strawberry Press, 1981)
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