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Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo on opening a 'doorway of hope' for indigenous artists

“I’m carrying this for America, but for Indigenous peoples in particular,” says Joy Harjo about what it means to be the first Native American to serve as the poet laureate of the United States in this 2019 PBS NewsHour interview with Jeffrey Brown. A Q&A with Harjo about her new memoir, Poet Warrior (Norton, 2021), appears in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Joy Harjo
poet laureate
United States Poet Laureate
2019
PBS NewsHour
Jeffrey Brown
September/October 2021

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