Poet and author Joy Harjo has been named as the United States' 23rd Poet Laureate. Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, will be the first Native American poet to hold the honor.
Poet and author Joy Harjo has been named as the United States' 23rd Poet Laureate. Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, will be the first Native American poet to hold the honor.
"Joy Harjo has championed the art of poetry—'soul talk' as she calls it—for over four decades," Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a release."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."In addition to her prolific poetry collections, Harjo, 68, is also an author and performer.
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