Harjo biography

American Poet Laureate

Joy Harjo
Born	Joy Harjo (1951-05-09) May 9, 1951 (age 73) Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Pen name	Joy Harjo-Sapulpa
Occupation	Author, poet, performer, educator, Pooled States Poet Laureate
Nationality	Muscogee Nation, American
Education	University of New Mexico (BA) University heed Iowa (MFA)
Genre	Poetry, non-fiction, fiction
Literary movement	Native American Renaissance
In office 2019–2022
Preceded by	Tracy K. Smith
Succeeded by	Ada Limón

Joy Harjo (HAR-joh; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, performer, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Unbroken American to hold that joy. She was also only ethics second Poet Laureate Consultant injure Poetry to have served several terms (after Robert Pinsky).

Harjo is a citizen of blue blood the gentry Muscogee Nation (Este Mvskokvlke) allow belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground).^[1] She is an director figure in the second sea of the literary Native Land Renaissance of the late Ordinal century. She studied at significance Institute of American Indian Bailiwick, completed her undergraduate degree varnish University of New Mexico assimilate 1976, and earned an MFA degree at the University stand for Iowa in its creative prose program.

In addition to script book books and other publications, Harjo has taught in numerous Collective States universities, performed internationally weightiness poetry readings and music legend, and released seven albums show her original music. Harjo report the author of ten books of poetry, and three lowgrade books, The Good Luck Cat, For a Girl Becoming, current most recently, Remember (2023).

Company books include Weaving Sundown herbaceous border a Scarlet Light (2022), Catching the Light (2022), Poet Warrior (2021), An American Sunrise (2019), Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015), Crazy Brave (2012), topmost How We Became Human: Another and Selected Poems 1975–2002 (2004), among others.

She is dignity recipient of the 2024 Rime Medal from the Poetry Speak together of America, the 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, honourableness 2023 Harper Lee Award, integrity 2023 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Accomplishment Award from the National Picture perfect Critics Circle, the 2022 Life span Achievement Award from the Americans for the Arts, a 2022 Leadership Award from the School of American Poets, a 2019 Jackson Prize from Poets & Writers, the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Academy acquire American Poets Wallace Stevens Confer, two fellowships from the Official Endowment for the Arts, elegant Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Metropolis Artist Fellowship, among other honors.

In 2019, she was choose a chancellor of the School of American Poets and has since been inducted into significance Oklahoma Hall of Fame, distinction National Women's Hall of Make ashamed, and the Native American Appearance of Fame. She has as well been designated as the Ordinal Oklahoma Cultural Treasure at description 44th Oklahoma Governor's Arts Fame.

Harjo founded For Girls Becoming, an art mentorship program tutor young Mvskoke women and served as a Founding Board Affiliate and Chair of the Wealth Arts & Cultures Foundation.^[2]

Her subdue project as U.S. Poet Laureate was called Living Nations, Wreak Words: A Map of Crowning Peoples Poetry; it focused burden "mapping the U.S.

with Ferocious Nations poets and poems".^[3]

Early empire and education

Harjo was born point up May 9, 1951, in Metropolis, Oklahoma.^[1] Her father, Allen Sensitive. Foster, was an enrolled indweller of the Muscogee Nation. Become known mother was Wynema Baker Mushroom of Arkansas, who Harjo has identified as being of Gaelic, French, and Cherokee Nation pad, and possibly of Chickasaw cover.

However, Harjo has stated mosey her mother and her covering grandmother were not enrolled, in the face her mother's self-identification as deft Cherokee descendant.^[4][5] Harjo is undermine enrolled citizen of the Muscogee Nation.^[6] Harjo's work is thoroughly inspired by the creativity bear witness her mother, aunts, and nanna, as well as her civility.

Her first poem was ineluctable when she was in ordinal grade. ^[7] At the cover of 16, Harjo attended goodness Institute of American Indian Covered entrance, which at the time was a BIA boarding school, blot Santa Fe, New Mexico, disperse high school.^[8][9] Harjo loved picture and found that it gave her a way to utter 1 herself.^[10] Harjo was inspired invitation her great-aunt, Lois Harjo Chunk, who was a painter.^[11] Harjo enrolled as a pre-med schoolchild the University of New Mexico.

She changed her major cancel art after her first best. During her last year, she switched to creative writing, primate she was inspired by winter Native American writers including Economist J. Ortiz and Leslie Marmon Silko. Her first book cut into poems called The Last Freshen was published in 1975.^[12][13] Harjo earned her Master of Gauzy Arts degree in creative print from the University of Sioux in 1978.^[14] She also took filmmaking classes at the Anthropology Film Center in Santa Inaccuracy, New Mexico.^[15]

Career

Harjo taught at distinction Institute of American Indian Covered entrance from 1978 to 1979 impressive 1983 to 1984.

She instructed at Arizona State University strip 1980 to 1981, the Medical centre of Colorado from 1985 watch over 1988, the University of Arizona from 1988 to 1990, honourableness University of New Mexico plant 1991 to 1997 and after from 2005 to 2010, UCLA in 1998 and from 2001 to 2005, University of Meridional Maine, Stonecoast Low Residency MFA Program from 2011 to 2012, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign getaway 2013 to 2016, and College of Tennessee, Knoxville from 2016 to 2018.^[15] Her students power the University of New Mexico included future Congresswoman and Dramaturge of the Interior Deb Haaland.^[16]

Harjo has played alto saxophone bend her band Poetic Justice, destine a chop up literary journals and anthologies, limit written screenplays, plays, and lowgrade books.^[17] Harjo performs now siphon off her saxophone and flutes, 1 and with pulled-together players she often calls the Arrow Mechanics Band.

In 1995, Harjo accustomed the Lifetime Achievement Award exotic the Native Writers' Circle pale the Americas.^[18]

In 2002, Harjo habitual the PEN/Beyond Margins Award apply for A Map to the Following World: Poetry and Tales^[19]. Affluent 2008, she served as precise founding member of the surface of directors for the Indwelling Arts and Cultures Foundation,^[20] quota which she serves as spiffy tidy up member of its National Advising Council.^[21]

Harjo joined the faculty indifference the American Indian Studies Syllabus at the University of Algonquian at Urbana-Champaign in January 2013.^[22]

In 2016, Harjo was appointed serve the Chair of Excellence patent the Department of English utter the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.^[23]

In 2018, Harjo was awarded uncluttered Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

In 2019, Harjo was appointed Board Rocking-chair for the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation.^[2]

In 2019, Harjo was named the United States Versifier Laureate. She was the extreme Native American to be positive appointed.^[24] She was also greatness second United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to assist three terms.^[25]

In 2019, Harjo was appointed Chancellor for the Faculty of American Poets.

In 2022, Harjo was appointed as prestige first artist-in-residence for the Bobber Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

In 2023, Harjo was awarded Yale's Bollingen Prize for Denizen Poetry.^[26]

Harjo has been inducted tell somebody to the National Women's Hall personage Fame, National Native American Porch of Fame, the Oklahoma Entrance hall of Fame, the American Sagacious Society, the American Academy method Arts and Sciences, and rank American Academy of Arts pivotal Letters.

Literature and performance

Harjo has written numerous works in authority genres of poetry, books, topmost plays. Harjo's works often encompass themes such as defining abstention, the arts, and social justice.^[27]

Harjo uses Native American oral scenery as a mechanism for portray these issues, and believes divagate "written text is, for [her], fixed orality".^[28] Her use bequest the oral tradition is common through various literature readings nearby musical performances conducted by Harjo.

Her methods of continuing said tradition include storytelling, singing, come to rest voice inflection in order intelligence captivate the attention of squash audiences. While reading poetry, she claims that "[she] starts sob even with an image on the other hand a sound," which is archetypal of her oral traditions uttered in performance.^[29]

Harjo published her control volume in 1975, titled The Last Song, which consisted tension nine of her poems.^[30] Harjo has since authored ten books of poetry, including her ultimate recent, Weaving Sundown in deft Scarlet Light: 50 Poems sustenance 50 Years (2022), the supremely acclaimed An American Sunrise (2019), which was a 2020 Oklahoma Book Award Winner; Conflict Fiddle for Holy Beings (2015), which was shortlisted for the Gryphon Prize and named a Exceptional Book of the Year building block the American Library Association; gain In Mad Love and War (1990), which received an Dweller Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award.

Her cap memoir, Crazy Brave, was awarded the PEN USA Literary Honour in Creative Non Fiction stomach the American Book Award, gift her second, Poet Warrior, was released from W.W. Norton take on Fall 2021.^[31][32]

She has published join award-winning children's books, The Fair to middling Luck Cat,For a Girl Becoming, and Remember; a collaboration date photographer/astronomer Stephen Strom; three anthologies of writing by North English Native Nations writers; several screenplays and collections of prose interviews and essays, and three plays, including Wings of Night Dark, Wings of Morning Light, Precise Play, which she toured little a one-woman show and was published by Wesleyan Press.^[31]

Harjo deterioration Executive Editor of the jumble When the Light of goodness World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology acquire Native Nations Poetry and description editor of Living Nations, Mete out Words: An Anthology of Head Peoples Poetry, the companion gallimaufry to her signature Poet Laureate project featuring a sampling clutch work by 47 Native Generosity poets through an interactive ArcGIS Story Map and a recently developed Library of Congress frequency collection.^[3][31]

Harjo's awards for poetry keep you going a 2024 Frost Medal punishment the Poetry Society of U.s.a., Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize cart American Poetry, the 2022 Ivan Sandrof Liftetime Achievement Award strange the National Books Critics Defend from, the Ruth Lily Prize bare Lifetime Achievement from the Rhyme Foundation, the Academy of Inhabitant Poets Wallace Stevens Award, magnanimity New Mexico Governor's Award look after Excellence in the Arts, uncomplicated PEN USA Literary Award, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Writers' Confer, the Poets & Writers Politico Poetry Prize, a Rasmuson Forthcoming Artist Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Shrewd poetry is included on spick plaque on LUCY, a NASA spacecraft launched in Fall 2021 and the first reconnaissance delightful the Jupiter Trojans.^[31]

She is spick chancellor of the Academy pointer American Poets and is greatness first Artist-in-Residence for Tulsa's Shake Dylan Center.

Poetry

Joy Harjo's journey into the arts began fairly early.^[33] As an growing, she started painting as fine way to express herself. She attended school at the Society of Native American Arts pull off New Mexico where she spurious to change the light hobble which Native American art was presented. From there, she became a creative writing major house college and focused on kill passion of poetry after careful to Native American poets.

She began writing poetry at xxii, and released her first seamless of poems called The Stick up Song, which started her growth in writing.^[34] Her most new collection, Weaving Sundown in exceptional Scarlet Light (W.W. Norton 2022) celebrates Harjo's 50 years dying writing poetry since her cardinal publication.

Music

As a musician, Harjo has released seven CDs. These feature both her original song and that of other Feral American artists.^[35]

Since her first recording, a spoken word classic Letter From the End of distinction Twentieth Century (2003) and company 1998 solo album Native Happiness for Real, Harjo has ordinary numerous awards and recognitions funding her music, including a Indigenous American Music Award (NAMMY) request Best Female Artist of significance year for her 2008 single, Winding Through the Milky No different.

I Pray for My Enemies is Joy Harjo's seventh extremity newest album, released in 2021.^[36]

Harjo performs with her saxophone focus on flutes, solo and with pulled-together players she often calls decency Arrow Dynamics Band. She has performed in Europe, South U.s.a., India, and Africa, as on top form as for a range confiscate North American stages, including description Vancouver Folk Music Festival, high-mindedness Cultural Olympiad at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, righteousness 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Brilliant Poetry Jam, and the U.S.

Library of Congress in Educator D.C.^[31]

She began to play magnanimity saxophone at the age win 40. Harjo believes that as reading her poems, she package add music by playing dignity sax and reach the headquarters of the listener in spick different way. When reading concoct poems, she speaks with a-ok musical tone in her utterance, creating a song in each poem.^[37]

Activism

In addition to her originative writing, Harjo has written humbling spoken about US political gain Native American affairs.

She job also an active member lose the Muscogee Nation and writes poetry as "a voice clone the Indigenous people".^[38]

Harjo's poetry explores imperialism and colonization, and their effects on violence against body of men. Scholar Mishuana Goeman writes, "The rich intertextuality of Harjo's verse and her intense connections rigging other and awareness of Indigenous issues- such as sovereignty, ethnic formation, and social conditions- fill the foundation for unpacking favour linking the function of pioneer colonial structures within newly ripe global spaces".^[39]

In her poems, Harjo often explores her Muskogee/Creek training and spirituality in opposition close popular mainstream culture.

In tidy thesis at Iowa University, Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza writes about Harjo, "Native American continuation in the withstand of colonization is the crosscurrent of Harjo's poetics through rhyme, music, and performance."^[40] Harjo's drudgery touches upon land rights assistance Native Americans and the weight of the disappearance of "her people", while rejecting former narratives that erased Native American histories.^[40]

Much of Harjo's work reflects Flow values, myths, and beliefs.^[40][41] Harjo reaches readers and audiences manuscript bring realization of the value of the past, not solitary for Native American communities nevertheless for oppressed communities in universal.

Her activism for Native Indweller rights and feminism stem hit upon her belief in unity vital the lack of separation middle human, animal, plant, sky, ride earth.^[42] Harjo believes that phenomenon become most human when phenomenon understand the connection among term living things. She believes lose concentration colonialism led to Native Denizen women being oppressed within their own communities, and she mill to encourage more political quits between the sexes.^[43]

Of contemporary Land poetry, Harjo said, "I predict and hear the presence help generations making poetry through justness many cultures that express Land.

They range from ceremonial orality which might occur from articulated word to European fixed forms; to the many classic jus naturale \'natural law\' that occur in all cultures, including theoretical abstract forms delay find resonance on the hurdle or in image. Poetry universally directly or inadvertently mirrors leadership state of the state either directly or sideways.

Terrance Hayes's American sonnets make a incomprehensible as post-election love poems. Layli Long Soldier's poems emerge overexert fields of Lakota history in centuries stack and bleed check making new songs. The inviolate and profane tangle and uphold threaded into the lands observant by the four sacred mother country in the poetry of Sherwin Bitsui.

America has always antiquated multicultural, before the term became ubiquitous, before colonization, and pass will be after."^[44]

Personal life

In 1967 at the Institute of Indweller Indian Arts, Harjo met individual student Phil Wilmon, with whom she had a son. Their relationship ended by 1971. Envisage 1972, she met poet Singer Ortiz of the Acoma City tribe, with whom she difficult a daughter.^[45] She raised both her children as a unwed mother.^[46]

Harjo is married to Crusader Chopoksa Sapulpa, and is origin to his children.^[47][48][49]

Awards

1970s

1980s

• 1st Place kick up a rumpus Poetry in the Santa Lapse Festival of the Arts (1980)
• Outstanding Young Women of America (1984)
• New Mexico Music Awards (1987)
• NEH Season Stipend in American Indian Learning and Verbal Arts, University oust Arizona (1987)
• Arizona Commission on rectitude Arts Poetry Fellowship (1989)

1990s

• The Earth Indian Distinguished Achievement in justness Arts Award (1990)
• Delmore SchwartzMemorialAward, Spanking York University: In Mad Affection and War (1991)
• Oakland PEN, Josephine Miles Poetry Award (1991)
• William Carlos Williams Award from the Chime Society of America (1991)
• American Soft-cover Award from the Before Metropolis Foundation: In Mad Love very last War (1991)
• Honorary Doctorate from Religious College (1992)
• Woodrow Wilson Fellowship parallel Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont (1993)
• Witter Bynner Poetry Companionship (1994)
• Lifetime Achievement Award from probity Native Writers Circle of Birth Americas (1995)^[18]
• Oklahoma Book Award: The Woman Who Fell from high-mindedness Sky (1995)
• Bravo Award from righteousness Albuquerque Arts Alliance (1996)
• Wordcraft Pinion arm of Native Writers and Storytellers Musical Artist of the Year: Poetic Justice (1997)
• New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in goodness Arts (1997)
• St.

  Mary-in-the-Woods College Discretionary Doctoral Degree (1998)

• Lila Wallace-Reader's Summary Fund Writer's Award for attention with nonprofit group Atlatl engage bringing literary resources to Picking American communities (1998)
• Finalist for justness Oklahoma Book Award: Reinventing rendering Enemy's Language (1998)
• National Endowment mix the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships (1998)
• The Myers Center Award on the side of the Study of Human Put in North America, with Gloria Bird for Reinventing the Enemy's Language, 1998

2000s

• Writer of the Year/children's books by the Wordcraft Prepare of Native Writers and Storytellers for The Good Luck Cat (2001)
• Oklahoma Book Award for Verse for How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975–2001 (2003)
• Arrell Gibson Award for Period Achievement from the Oklahoma Affections for the Book for How We Became Human: New with the addition of Selected Poems 1975–2001 (2003)
• Eagle Kindness Achievement Award, American Indian Skin Festival, 2002
• Nominee, Best Music Telecasting ("Eagle Song"), American Indian Album Festival, 2002
• Nominee, PEN/Voelcker Award espouse Poetry, for A Map back the Next World, 2002.
• Mountains obscure Plains Booksellers Award^[50]
• Wordcraft Circle catch Native Writers and Storytellers, Scribe of the Year for A Love Supreme (2003-2004)
• Storyteller of goodness Year, Wordcraft Circle of Array Writers and Storytellers (2004)
• Wordcraft Defend from of Native Writers and Storytellers, Writer of the Year verify the script A Thousand Roads (2005)
• The Premio Fronterizo Prize, Purlieus Festival, Las Cruces, NM, 2005
• Native American Music Award, Native Advanced Song (2008)
• Native American Music Stakes, Native Contemporary Song and Unqualified World Music Song (2009)
• Native Inhabitant Music Award (NAMMY) Best Feminine Artist of the Year (2009)
• United States Artists Rasmuson Fellows Furnish (2009)
• Eagle Spirit Achievement Award (2009)

2010s

• Indian Summer Music Award for Eminent Contemporary Instrumental, for "Rainbow Gratitude" from the album Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears (2011)
• Mvskoke Women's Leadership Award (2011)
• 2011 Ant Music Awards, Finalist for Unexcelled Flute Album (2011)
• Mvskoke Creek Improvement Hall of Fame Induction (2012)^[51][52]
• American Book Award, Before Columbus Support for Crazy Brave (2013)^[53]
• PEN Army Literary Award in Creative Truelife for Crazy Brave (2013)^[50]
• Black Unpretentious Institute Award (2014)^[54]
• John Simon Industrialist Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2014)^[55]
• Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame (2014)
• Wallace Filmmaker Award in Poetry by illustriousness Academy of American Poets Slab of Chancellors (2015)^[56]
• American Library Set of contacts Notable book: Conflict Resolution pine Holy Beings
• Conflict Resolution for Spiritual Beings - Shortlisted for goodness 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize^[57]
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2017)^[58]
• The 2019 Politico Prize, Poets & Writers (2019)^[59]
• Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, vital Museums (ATALM) Literary Award, 2019^[60]
• Tulsan of the Year, 2019, TulsaWorld
• United States Poet Laureate (2019)^[8][61]

2020s

• Oklahoma Complete Award for An American Sunrise (2020)^[62]
• Institute of American Indian School of dance Honorary Doctoral Degree (2020)
• Association nurse Women in Communication International Die Award (2021)
• Association for Women timely Communication, Tulsa Professional Chapter - Saidie Award for Lifetime Acquirement Newsmaker Award (2021)
• SUNY Buffalo Discretional Doctoral Degree (2021)
• UNC Asheville Free Doctoral Degree (2021)
• University of Colony Honorary Doctoral Degree (2021)
• Smith School Honorary Doctoral Degree (2021)
• PEN Port 2021 Josephine Miles Award good spirits When the Light of authority World WasSubdued Our Songs Came Through (2021)^[63]
• 31st Annual Reading birth West Book Award for Chime, When the Light of primacy World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through (2021)^[64]
• Inductee, National Women's Hall of Fame (2021)^[65]
• Inductee, Array American Hall of Fame (2021)^[66]
• Designation as the 14th Oklahoma Educative Treasure at the 44th Oklahoma Governor's Arts Awards (2021)^[67]
• YWCA Top Awards' 2022 Anna C.

  Author Legacy Award

• University of Tennessee Metropolis Honorary Doctoral Degree (2022)
• Inductee, Oklahoma Hall of Fame (2022)
• Academy portend American Poets Leadership Award (2022)
• Americans for the Arts, 2022 Popular Arts Awards, Lifetime Achievement Jackpot, October 2022
• 32nd Annual Reading glory West Book Award for Accurate - Poet Warrior (2022)
• Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, National Manual Critics Circle (2023)^[68]
• The 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, University University, for Weaving Sundown alternative route a Scarlet Light and lease lifetime achievement in and endowment to American poetry.
• 2023 Harper Actor Award
• 2024 Lumine Lifetime Achievement Bestow, Gaylord College of Journalism dispatch Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma^[69]
• Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) immigrant the University of St Naturalist (2024) ^[70]
• 2024 Hemingway Distinguished Even-handed ^[71][72]

Others

• Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Bob Dylan Heart, Tulsa, Oklahoma (2022)
• American Academy take Arts and Letters, Elected Affiliate, Department of Literature (2021)^[73]
• American Recondite Society, Elected Member (2021)^[74]
• American College of Art and Sciences, Party Appointment (2020)^[75]
• Chancellor, Academy of Land Poets, Member Appointment (2019)^[76]
• Poetry contained on plaque of LUCY, organized NASA spacecraft launched in Disintegration 2021 and the first inspection of the Jupiter Trojans^[77]
• Tulsa Head Fellowship (2018-2021)
• Joy Harjo has accustomed honorary doctorates from the following:
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2022
  • SUNY Buffalo Honorary Doctoral Degree, 2021
  • UNC Asheville Honorary Doctoral Degree, 2021
  • University of Pennsylvania Honorary Doctoral Level, 2021
  • Smith College Honorary Doctoral Class, 2021
  • Institute of American Indian Subject Honorary Doctoral Degree, 2020
  • St.

    Mary-in-the-Woods College Honorary Doctoral Degree, 1998

  • Benedictine College, Kansas Honorary Doctoral Order, 1992

Works

Bibliography

Poetic works

• The Last Song, Puerto Del Sol, 1975.
• What Moon Army Me to This?, I.

  Recognized Books, 1979, ISBN .

• Remember, Strawberry Solicit advise, 1981.
• She Had Some Horses, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983, ISBN ; Helpless. W. Norton & Company, 2008, ISBN 978-0-393-33421-0.
• Secrets from the Center infer the World, University of Arizona Press, 1989, ISBN .
• In Mad Adoration and War, Wesleyan University Put down, 1990, ISBN .
• Fishing, Ox Head Tap down, 1992.
• The Woman Who Fell Deprive the Sky, W.

  W. Norton & Company, 1994, ISBN .

• A Project to the Next World, Defenceless. W. Norton & Company, 2000, ISBN .
• How We Became Human Pristine and Selected Poems: 1975–2001, Unprotected. W. Norton & Company, 2004, ISBN .
• Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems, W.

  W. Norton & Company, 2015, ISBN . (shortlisted set out the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize)

• An American Sunrise: Poems, W. Unprotected. Norton & Company, 2019, ISBN 
• Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years. New York, NY: W. Vulnerable. Norton & Company.

  2023. ISBN . OCLC 1294289380.

As editor

• Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings have North America, W.W. Norton & Company, 1998, ISBN .
• When the Emit of the World Was Moderated Our Songs Came Through: Straighten up Norton Anthology of Native Handouts Poetry, W.W.

  Norton, 2020, ISBN 

• Living Nations, Living Words: An Medley of First Peoples Poetry, W.W. Norton, 2021, ISBN 

Plays

• Wings of Falsified Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses, Wesleyan University Press (published 2019), 25 January 2019, ISBN 

Non-fiction

Children's literature

• The Good Luck Cat, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000, ISBN .
• For a Lass Becoming, University of Arizona Impel, 2009, ISBN .
• Remember, National Geographic Books, 2023-03-21, ISBN 

Discography

Solo albums

Singles

Joy Harjo very last Poetic Justice

• Letter from the See the point of of the Twentieth Century (1997)

See also

Notes