Joy Harjo
Bio:
Joy Harjo is a poet, musician, and award-winning writer. Harjo served as a founding member of the Board of Directors for the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
Joy Harjo is a WMC SheSource expert on Spirituality, Art and Culture, and Social Justice.
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WMC Live
WMC Live #300: Joy Harjo. (Original Airdate 11/3/2019)
Robin on California's fires, dashing up Mt. Everest, workplace menopause policy, slut-shaming of a Congresswoman, and women in (yes) media. Guest: Joy Harjo, poet, musician, feminist, and the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States.
WMC Live
WMC Live #35: Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, Alice Quinn. (Original Airdate 4/20/2013)
Poetry Month. Robin celebrates new energy in poetry with Alice Quinn of the Poetry Society of America; Joy Harjo sings a poem; and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove reads from Mother Love. Plus Robin links the Boston bombing to the Senate’s gun vote.
WMC Live
December 29, 2012 | Ariel Levy, Mona Eltahawy, Jane Fonda., Joy Harjo |
Jane Fonda,
Politics,
Robin Morgan
WMC Live #19: Best of 2012. Jane Fonda, Ariel Levy, Joy Harjo, Mona Eltahawy. (Original Airdate 12/29/2012)
The best of WMC Live with Robin Morgan from 2012, including actor and activist Jane Fonda; New Yorker writer Ariel Levy; Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy; and Native-American poet Joy Harjo.
WMC Live
October 06, 2012 | Adora Svitak, Paula DiPerna, Joy Harjo, Rebecca Adamson |
Politics,
Race/Ethnicity,
Robin Morgan
WMC Live #7: Joy Harjo, Rebecca Adamson, Paula DiPerna, Adora Svitak. (Original Airdate 10/6/2012)
Robin examines the history and legacy of Columbus Day and the notion of “The End of Men,” and speaks with Adora Svitak about the Girls’ State of the Union; Paula DiPerna about Mrs. Columbus; poet Joy Harjo; and Cherokee economist Rebecca Adamson.
WMC News & Features
June 24, 2008 | Joy Harjo |
Arts and culture
Her Pueblo Round Place-A Remembrance of Paula Gunn Allen
It was the summer of 1973 when I first met Paula Gunn Allen, the teacher and poet who was destined to create on her own terms a scholarly framework for native women’s culture. I was hugely pregnant,...
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