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Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

Writer

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.

Born: May 9, 1951 (Age 73) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

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Joy Harjo  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
7.1
ActressHerself2020
Movie
9.7
ActressSelf1996
Movie
3
ActressInterviewee (Self)2021
Movie
ActressNarrative Poetry
Movie
6.5
ActressSelf2019
Short Film
ActressHerself2022
Movie
7.6
ActressNarrator2011
Movie
ProductionProduction Assistant
Short Film
7.6
WritingScreenplay2005
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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