Joy Harjo
Birthday
1951/05/09 (74 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Also know as
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Biography
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, th...Read more
Acting
(2022) Cara Romero: Following the Light
as Herself
(2021) Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
as Self - Interviewee
(1982) Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
as Narrative Poetry
(1996) Pepper's Pow Wow
as Self
(2019) Words from a Bear
as Self
(2016) Medicine Woman
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2011) Games of the North
as Narrator
(2020) Love and Fury
as Herself
Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
as Self
(1994) The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2025) Highway 99: A Double Album
as Self
(2024) Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
as Self - 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate