Joy Harjo
Author of Crazy Brave: A Memoir
About the Author
Joy Harjo is an internationally known performer and writer of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, the author of ten books of poetry and a memoir, Crazy Brave. A critically acclaimed poet, her many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the show more American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award. She currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. show less
Works by Joy Harjo
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) — Editor; Contributor — 252 copies
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America (1997) — Editor; Contributor — 164 copies
Fishing 2 copies
"Summer Night" 1 copy
"The Flood" 1 copy
"Call It Fear" 1 copy
"White Bear" 1 copy
Harjo, Joy Archive 1 copy
Eagle Song 1 copy
Furious Light 1 copy
Associated Works
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (2020) — Contributor — 290 copies
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contributor — 172 copies
A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women (1984) — Contributor — 152 copies
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributor — 148 copies
Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) — Contributor — 69 copies
The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979) — Contributor — 67 copies
She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets (1989) — Contributor — 67 copies
That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American Women (A Midland Book) (1984) — Contributor — 62 copies
I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (American Indian Lives) (1987) — Contributor — 60 copies
The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women (1993) — Contributor — 28 copies
Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival (Sun Tracks, Vol 29) (1994) — Contributor — 22 copies
Sinister Wisdom 22/23: A Gathering of Spirit: North American Indian Women's Issue (1983) — Contributor — 19 copies
Pueblo Imagination: Landscape and Memory in the Photography of Lee Marmon (2003) — Contributor — 12 copies
Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for When You Really Need Them (2021) — Contributor — 2 copies
The Massachusetts Review: Volume 24, No 2, Summer 1983: Woman: The Arts (1983) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1951-05-09
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
Muskogee-Creek tribe - Birthplace
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Places of residence
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Education
- University of New Mexico
University of Iowa - Occupations
- poet
teacher
musician
singer
saxophone player
United States Poet Laureate (show all 7)
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress - Awards and honors
- Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2000)
Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award
Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers Circle of The Americas (1995)
American Academy of Poets Award (2015)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (2019-2021)
Academy of American Poets Leadership Award (2022) (show all 7)
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award (2022)
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Statistics
- Works
- 40
- Also by
- 58
- Members
- 3,523
- Popularity
- #7,209
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 85
- ISBNs
- 91
- Languages
- 2
- Favorited
- 15