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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]
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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
Reservation Dogs is an American comedy-drama television series created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi for FX Productions.It follows the lives of Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma, as they try to reconcile their heritage with their desire to escape the limitations of life in their reservation community.
For Native American filmmaker Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Muscogee (Creek)), looking forward might be more important than looking back. The co-creator of hit series Reservation Dogs and director of ...
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.