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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Joy Harjo
The following is from Washing My Mother’s Body: A Ceremony for Grief by Joy Harjo, illustrated by Dana Tiger. __________________________________Reprinted with permission from Washing My Mother’s Body: A Ceremony for Grief by Joy Harjo. Art by Dana Tiger. Introduction copyright © 2025 by Joy Harjo-Sapulpa. Art and artist’s statement copyright © 2025 by Dana Tiger. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Joy Harjo
A stunningly illustrated, tender, and tenacious message—a boon to any bookshelf. In this tale from a powerhouse creative team, a family welcomes a child with an empowering and fiercely affectionate blessing to guide her growth.
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Feb 23, 2025 | 
dianabutlerbass.substack.com | Joy Harjo |Diana Bass
Good evening, Cottage friends!I wanted to share my sermon from this morning with you. It’s on the text from Luke 6:27-38. Sunday Musings covered some of the same material, but the preached sermon was different from the written reflection on the same passage.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
lauracalder.substack.com | Joy Harjo |Laura Calder
I’m back in the country for a bit. This time the leaves are off, the colour of the fields has been turned to mute, and the sky is full of drizzle. The landscape may seem a bit melancholy but, still, I love its poetic quality. Tomorrow, the temperatures are predicted to plummet, so wool coats and hats will be on parade. (Make them colourful, please!) And, of course, the days from here on out will be shorter and darker.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
prh.org | Octavia E. Butler |Joy Harjo |Derecka Purnell |Sonya Taylor
With the new year in full swing, PRH is thinking about the texts that build our foundations and sustain our spirit as we do this work at this time under increasing political duress. Reading keeps us grounded in what people before us and around us know to be true and know to be possible. Please find a few books that are currently on our shelves across the PRH Staff and Board of Directors.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
wonkette.com | Joy Harjo |Doktor Zoom
Happy Thanksgiving! As you may recall, last year we decided to end our old tradition of posting that Gus Van Sant video of William Burroughs reading his “Thanksgiving Prayer,” because while it was a cynical and bitter counterpoint to this enforced festive season in our consumerist paradise, sometimes hanging on to a thing because it’s “tradition” is problematic.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Joy Harjo |Morgan Talty |Amanda Peters
Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter That line, History will always find you, comes from the poem, “Break My Heart”, by former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, and it’s included in the collection An American Sunrise. If you’re new to poetry — or coming back to it — Harjo’s wonderful work is a great place to start, along with collections by Layli Long Soldier and Natalie Diaz.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Joy Harjo
First it was me in the mother-and-father universe—I emerged precariously as an unstable elementIn the province of fire and water. I came out fighting. I was not a princess. I should have been a boy. I was earth grasping for air. No one in this universe fit precisely anywhere. And then you, my brother, arrived eighteen monthsAfterward, on a winter day,Along with my mother who had disappearedTo bring me back a gift.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
dianabutlerbass.substack.com | Joy Harjo |Diana Bass
Two weeks ago, I was in the Wyoming mountains. And this week, I’m at a place I have long loved — North Carolina’s Outer Banks. These are the last weeks of my “road sabbatical.” I’ll be speaking again in mid-September after taking a six-month break from onsite engagements. In these final road sabbatical days, my poetic guide for reflection has been Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and former Poet Laureate of the United States.
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May 13, 2024 | 
onbeing.org | Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation and the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the author of 10 books of poetry, including An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, and She Had Some Horses, and the memoirs Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior. Her most recent poetry collection is Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years. She’s also produced several award-winning albums of music, including her most recent, I Pray for My Enemies.
