Joy Harjo
Writing · Born May 9, 1951 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the U.S., is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She is only the second poet to be appointed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she left home to attend high school at the innovative Institute of American Indian Arts, which was then a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. Harjo began writing poetry as a member of the University of New Mexico’s Native student organization, the Kiva Club, in response to Native empowerment movements. She went on to earn her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teach English, Creative Writing, and American Indian Studies at University of California-Los Angeles, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, Arizona State, University of Illinois, University of Colorado, University of Hawai’i, Institute of American Indian Arts, and University of Tennessee, while performing music and poetry nationally and internationally.
Joy Harjo movies and shows
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae2024
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting2021
Anthem2023
Words from a Bear2019
Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
Highway 99: A Double Album2025
Games of the North2011
A Thousand Roads2005
Pepper's Pow Wow1996
Medicine Woman2016
Cara Romero: Following the Light2022
Love and Fury2020
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith1982