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SUMMARY:Live Online: Author Talk with Joy Harjo
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LOCATION:Live Online!\nPort Hadlock WA 98339
ROOM: Live Online: Author Talk with Joy Harjo
DESCRIPTION:Register Now!\r\nUnited States Poet Laureate and winner of the
  2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for 
 a chat about her most recent memoir, Catching the Light and to discuss h
 er rewarding lifetime as a writer and poet. \r\nIn Catching the Light, H
 arjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice 
 and healing.\r\nIn this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry
 , Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and qu
 estioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes 
 that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 19
 60s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a
  fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, 
 spirit, community, and memory.\r\nHarjo insists the most meaningful poetry
  is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At t
 he crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the
  songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to t
 he power of words to defy erasure—to inscribe the story, again and again
 , of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be.\r\nAbout the Author:
  In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, t
 he first Native American to hold the position and only the second person t
 o serve three terms in the role. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include W
 eaving Sundown in a Scarlett Light, An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolu
 tion for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and Sh
 e Had Some Horses. She is also the author of two memoirs, Crazy Brave an
 d Poet Warrior, which invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, 
 and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. She has edited sev
 eral anthologies of Native American writing including When the Light of th
 e World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology of 
 Native Nations Poetry, and Living Nations, Living Words, the companion a
 nthology to her signature poet laureate project. Her many writing awards 
 include the 2022 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2019 Jackson
  Prize from Poets & Writers, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foun
 dation, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets,
  and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
  She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors 
 Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is artist-in-resid
 ence for the Bob Dylan Center. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with he
 r saxophone nationally and internationally; her most recent album is I Pr
 ay For My Enemies. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.\r\n \r\n 
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