On June 19, 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. On making the appointment, Dr. Hayden said:
Joy Harjo has championed the art of poetry—‘soul talk’ as she calls it—for over four decades. To her, poems are ‘carriers of dreams, knowledge and wisdom,’ and through them she tells an American story of tradition and loss, reckoning and myth-making. Her work powerfully connects us to the earth and the spiritual world with direct, inventive lyricism that helps us reimagine who we are.
Joy Harjo’s terms as U.S. Poet Laureate
Webcasts
- Interview with Poet Laureate Joy Harjo June 19, 2019
- Joy Harjo’s Inaugural Reading as U.S. Poet Laureate September 19, 2019
- Poets Laureate on Connection: National Book Festival 2020
- Joy Harjo: National Book Festival 2020
- “Race in America: Joy Harjo & Tracy K. Smith”
- Joy Harjo & A.B. Spellman at the 2016 National Book Festival September 24, 2016
- Joy Harjo at the 2012 National Book Festival September 22, 2012
Audio recordings
- Joy Harjo reads and discusses Jennifer Elise Foerster’s “American Coma”
- Joy Harjo: 2012 National Book Festival Podcast
Blog posts & articles
- Hooray for Joy! June 19, 2019
- Meet Poet Laureate Joy Harjo: Press Roundup June 28, 2019.
- Summertime is Laureate Time at the Library! July 31, 2019
- Laureate at the Library: Joy Harjo Visits the Main Reading Room August 8, 2019
- Laureate at the Library: Talking Geopoetics with Joy Harjo in the Geography and Map Division Research Center August 8, 2019
- Laureate at the Library: Resonance in the Cultural Collections of the Manuscript Division August 21, 2019
- Laureate at the Library: Joy Harjo Visits the Prints and Photographs Division August 28, 2019
- Laureate at the Library: Sharing the History and Realities of Field Recordings of Native American Songs and Narratives September 4, 2019
- Joy Harjo’s Las Word Library of Congress Magazine November–December 2019
- Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Gets a Third Term; Launches “Living Nations, Living Words November 19, 2020
Living Nations, Living Words a sampling of work by 47 Native Nations poets through an interactive Story Map and a newly developed audio collection
Joy Harjo selected bibliography
External websites providing information about the life and works of Native American poet Joy Harjo
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