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Joy Harjo Links | Books

credit: Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

:: Joy Harjo is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Tribe and the author of several award-winning books of poetry. She is the saxophone player for her band Poetic Justice, whose last CD was Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas and lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.


More on Joy Harjo

- Website of Poetic Justice, Joy Harjo's band

- Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color: a Joy Harjo page

- The Academy of American Poets Joy Harjo page

- Storytellers: Native American Voices Online a Joy Harjo page including links and an extensive list of poems available online

- "Poet gives her writings and heritage a new voice" from the Portland Oregonian, October 19, 1998

- "Fishing": Natalie Gawdiak discusses the poem on the Favorite Poem Project website: text and audio

 

 

How We Became Human (2002)

>> read "Eagle Poem" and "Morning Prayers"

 

A Map to the Next World (date)

 

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1994)

>> read "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" and "Perhaps the World Ends Here"

Also by Joy Harjo

- The Last Song (chapbook)
- What Moon Drove Me to This?
- She Had Some Horses
- Secrets from the Center of the World
- In Mad Love and War
- Fishing (chapbook)

Anthology

- Reinventing the Enemy's Language (co-editor)

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