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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]
Besides writing poetry, Harjo sings, plays saxophone and flute - she's recorded seven albums - and writes children's books, among other endeavors.
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
Suzan Shown Harjo (born June 2, 1945) [2] (Cheyenne [3] and Hodulgee Muscogee [4]) is an American advocate for Native American rights. She is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate who has helped Native peoples recover more than one million acres (4,000 km²) of tribal lands. [5]
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.
The script was developed with the support of the Sundance Institute [3] and was filmed in Holdenville, Oklahoma (Harjo's hometown) and in Tulsa. [1] [4] Harjo has commented that one of his purposes in writing the script was to react against expectations and stereotypes, for example by depicting Cufe "drinking a beer" while not making alcoholism a central issue, and showing him becoming ...