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Writing
Birthday
May 9, 1951
Place of Birth
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Joy Harjo
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Biography
Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the U.S., is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She is only the second poet to be appointed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she left home to attend high school at the innovative Institute of American Indian Arts, which was then a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. Harjo began writing poetry as a member of the University of New Mexico’s Native student organization, the Kiva Club, in response to Native empowerment movements. She went on to earn her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teach English, Creative Writing, and American Indian Studies at University of California-Los Angeles, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, Arizona State, University of Illinois, University of Colorado, University of Hawai’i, Institute of American Indian Arts, and University of Tennessee, while performing music and poetry nationally and internationally.
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Self - 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
2024
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Herself
Cara Romero: Following the Light
2022
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Self - Interviewee
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
2021
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Herself
Love and Fury
2020
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Self
Words from a Bear
2019
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Self - Narrator (voice)
Medicine Woman
2016
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Narrator
Games of the North
2011
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Self
Pepper's Pow Wow
1996
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Self - Narrator (voice)
The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest
1994
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Narrative Poetry
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
1982
Credits
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
as Self - 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate
2024
8.7
Cara Romero: Following the Light
as Herself
2022
6.0
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
as Self - Interviewee
2021
8.0
Love and Fury
as Herself
2020
8.0
Words from a Bear
as Self
2019
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Medicine Woman
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
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Games of the North
as Narrator
2011
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Pepper's Pow Wow
as Self
1996
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🎬
The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1994
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Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
as Narrative Poetry
1982
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Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
as Self
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