Writing
Community Rating
7.1
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Born
May 9, 1951 (age 74)
Born in
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.

Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
as Self
TBA

Highway 99: A Double Album
as Self
2025

Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
as Self - 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate
2024

Anthem
as Self
2023

Cara Romero: Following the Light
as Herself
2022

Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
as Self - Interviewee
2021

Love and Fury
as Herself
2020

Words from a Bear
as Self
2019

Medicine Woman
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016

Games of the North
as Narrator
2011

A Thousand Roads
as Screenplay
2005

Pepper's Pow Wow
as Self
1996
The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1994

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
as Narrative Poetry, Production Assistant
1982