Poetry Reading: Third World Women Poets

One of several poetry readings at the 1980 NWSA Conuention included the following poems

Reading: Joy Harjo

In this audiovisual recording from March 19, 1987 during the 18th annual UND Writers Conference: “Writers of the Purple Sage,” Joy Harjo, introduced by Robert Lewis, reads a selection of published and unpublished poems. In the reading she introduces and reads “Rainy Dawn,” “New Orleans,” “Death is a Woman,” “Fury of Rain,” “The Winning Hand,” “Santa Fe,” “For Anna May Aquash, Whose Spirit is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars,” “The Real Revolution is Love,” “Healing Animal,” “The Book of Myths,” “Grace,” “She Had Some Horses,” and “Eagle Poem.” Before the reading of each poem, Harjo explains the story behind the poem\u27s conception, expounding on her sense of history, narrative, and dedication with each piece

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings [Video]

Joy Harjo, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an internationally known poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Her many writing awards include the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for proven mastery in the art of poetry; a Guggenheim Fellowship; the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Rasmuson United States Artist Fellowship, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 2014 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. On behalf of the judges of the Wallace Stevens Award, Academy of American Poets Chancellor Alicia Ostriker said: “Throughout her extraordinary career as poet, storyteller, musician, memoirist, playwright and activist, Joy Harjo has worked to expand our American language, culture, and soul. A Creek Indian and student of First Nation history, Harjo is rooted simultaneously in the natural world, in earth—especially the landscape of the American Southwest—and in the spirit world. Aided by these redemptive forces of nature and spirit, incorporating native traditions of prayer and myth into a powerfully contemporary idiom, her visionary justice-seeking art transforms personal and collective bitterness to beauty, fragmentation to wholeness, and trauma to healing.” Keynote Address for Native American Heritage Month. Part of the Chautauqua Lecture Series: Order and Chaos (2016-2017

Joy Harjo, 20th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Joy Harjo has published five books of poetry including She Had Some Horses, In Mad Love and War, and Secrets from the Center of the World. Among her awards are the Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature from PEN Oakland, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Delmore Schwartz Award from New York University, the American Book Award, the Poetry Award from the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association, and the 1990 American Indian Distinguished Achievement Award. Most recently she was awarded the Oklahoma Book Arts Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, and the Bravo Award from the Albuquerque Arts Allianc

The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window

Harjo Joy. The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window. In: Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, N°38, novembre 1988. L'indianité : contextes et perspectives. p. 397