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Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate: A Resource Guide

External Websites

The following links to external websites provide more information about the life and works of Native American poet Joy Harjo.

The best starting point for biographical information about Joy Harjo is her official website.

Biographical information about Joy Harjo also can be found on the following websites:

For the latest news and discussions related to Joy Harjo, see:

A selected list of news articles, interviews, and conversations, arranged in chronological order, follows below. For additional articles also see Joy Harjo's official website, which includes interviews, reviews, and articles from 2013 to present External, as well as an archive of pre-2012 articles External.


Selected Articles, News, and Interviews

A selection of radio programs featuring Joy Harjo or in which Harjo and her work are discussed.

Podcasts and other non-radio audio recordings featuring Joy Harjo are listed below.

Many videos of Joy Harjo reading and discussing her work can be found through the following sources.

Selected online reviews of Joy Harjo's poetry, prose, and children's books appear below.

Poetry Reviews

Poet Warrior: A Memoir (2021)

An American Sunrise (2019)

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems (2015)

How We became Human: New and Selected Poems (2002)

A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales (2000)

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems (1996)


Prose

Poet Warrior: A Memoir (2021)

Crazy Brave: A Memoir (2012)


Children's Books

For a Girl Becoming (2009)

The Good Luck Cat (2000)