Jennifer Jurlando’s poems blend righteous anger, ancestral memory, and radical self-acceptance. From feminist reclamation in ...

For women, Audre Lorde wrote, poetry is not a luxury. Rather, it is “a vital necessity of our existence.” Here’s a poem I ...

Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Nation, is the first Native American poet laureate of the United States. The poet spoke to the Boston University School of Theology Sunday about the intersections ...

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The Joy of Reading One Poem in Many Different Translations. Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. ... Selected Poems (New Directions, 144 pp., paperback, $16.95).

KUNM spoke with Harjo, who said she wrote the book as an advice poem for her first grandchild. JOY HARJO: When she was coming of age, I wanted to, I gathered the family around to kind of honor that ...

Three-time Poet Laureate Joy Harjo headlines this year’s event. (Courtesy of Idyllwild Arts) Rather than giving a speech or doing a poetry reading, Harjo plans to stage a reading of a musical ...

Three-time Poet Laureate Joy Harjo headlines this year’s event. (Courtesy of Idyllwild Arts) Rather than giving a speech or doing a poetry reading, Harjo plans to stage a reading of a musical ...

Three-time Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, the author of numerous books, headlines this year’s event. (Courtesy of the publishers) But the poet, who Sandra Cisneros describes as a kind of badass in the ...

Poet Joy Harjo is playing unreleased tracks from her upcoming album, ... Rather than giving a speech or doing a poetry reading, Harjo plans to stage a reading of a musical play she’s written.