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Joy Harjo (/ ˈ h ɑːr dʒ oʊ / HAR-joh; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate , the first Native American to hold that honor.
Goade's book Berry Song was published in 2022 and was selected as a 2023 Caldecott Honor book. [16] [17] In 2023, Goade collaborated with former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo on Remember, a picture book adaptation of Harjo’s poem of the same name.
Crazy Brave was written over the span of 14 years. Harjo's younger sibling has said that the violence perpetrated by Harjo's stepdad was extremely downplayed in the memoir. [12] Joy Harjo uses her memoir to talk about past traumas and abusive father figures. [13] Joy Harjo sectioned Crazy Brave into four-part, east, north, west, and south. [14]
Besides writing poetry, Harjo sings, plays saxophone and flute - she's recorded seven albums - and writes children's books, among other endeavors.
"All My Life" by K-Ci & JoJo (1997) "Close to me you're like my father, Close to me you're like my sister, Close to me you're like my brother" Well, OK—that seems weird, but I'm still down with it.
Doug Miller and Joy Harjo , three-time U.S. Poet Laureate and jazz saxophonist, co-curated an exhibition, Jesse Ed Davis: Natural Anthem at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2024. [2] Miller wrote a biography, Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis (2024), to which Harjo contributed an essay. [3]
In 2019, Joy Harjo (Muscogee Nation) became the first Native American to hold the post of United States Poet Laureate. Also in 2019, Tommy Orange's (Cheyenne & Arapaho) novel about urban Indian life in California, There There, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [6]
"Remember Pearl Harbor" is an American patriotic march written by Don Reid and Sammy Kaye in the week immediately following the December 7, 1941 attack on the military facilities on the Hawaiian island on Oahu by naval forces of the Japanese navy.