Episode 109: Joy Harjo

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Rachel speaks with Joy Harjo, internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation about jazz, grief, second sight, teaching, and so much more. Joy Harjo served three terms as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years. 

Books and Selected Other Work by Joy Harjo

POETRY

• Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: 50 Poems for 50 Years (W.W. Norton, 2022)

• An American Sunrise (W. W. Norton, 2019)

• Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015)

• How We Became Human New & Selected Poems: 1975-2001 (W. W. Norton, 2004)

• A Map to the Next World (W. W. Norton, 2000)

• The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (W. W. Norton, 1994)

• In Mad Love & War (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)

• Secrets from the Center of the World, w. Stephen Strom (University of Arizona Press, 1989)

• She Had Some Horses (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983)

NONFICTION

• Catching the Light (Why I Write Series, Yale University Press, 2022)

• Poet Warrior (W. W. Norton, 2021)

• Crazy Brave (W. W. Norton, 2012)

• Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo, w. Tanaya Winder (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)

• The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (Poets on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1995)

PLAYS

• Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses (Wesleyan University Press, 2019)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

• Remember, w. Michaela Goade (Penguin Random House, 2023)

• For a Girl Becoming, w. Mercedes McDonald (University of Arizona Press, 2009)

• The Good Luck Cat, w. Paul Lee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000)

• Remember (Strawberry Press, 1981)

EDITORIAL

• Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2021)

• When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2020)

• Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America, w. Gloria Bird (W.W. Norton, 1998)

ALBUMS

• I Pray For My Enemies (2021)

• This America (2011)

• Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears (2010)

• Winding Through the Milky Way (2008)

• She Had Some Horses (2006)

• Native Joy for Real (2004)

• Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century (2003)

Also Referenced

• Audre Lorde

• Jill Bialosky

• John Benedict

• Sandra Cisneros

• University of Iowa

• Bob Dylan Center

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Denison University

• University of New Mexico

• Poets in Schools

• Harvard University

• University of California Los Angeles

• Institute of American Indian Arts

• Bureau of Indian Affairs

• University of Arizona

• University of New Mexico

• University of Colorado, Boulder

• University of Montana

• Paula Vogul, Bard at the Gate

• Paula Vogul, Indecent

• Congo Square

• Theater Squared

• John Coltrane 

• Alice Coltrane

• Jim Pepper

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