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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.
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]
Harjo is a surname, derived from the Muscogee word Hadcho meaning "Crazy" or "So Brave as to Seem crazy". [1] [2] Notable people with the name include: Albert Harjo (1937–2019), Muscogee artist; Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (born 1945), Absentee Shawnee/Seminole painter and printmaker; Chitto Harjo (Crazy Snake, 1846–1911), Muscogee warrior and activist
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Native paths: American Indian art from the collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains an essay by N. Scott Momaday (see table of contents) N. Scott Momaday Papers .Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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]
Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo, June 6, 2019. Harjo is the first Native American to serve as poet laureate and is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry, better known as simply Def Poetry Jam or Def Poetry, is a spoken word poetry television series hosted by Mos Def and airing on HBO between 2002 and 2007. The series features performances by established and up-and-coming spoken word poets.