Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo (b. Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, and author of Native American ancestry. Known primarily as a poet, Harjo has also taught at the college level, played tenor saxophone with a band called "Poetic Justice", edited literary journals, and written screenplays. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Bibliography

Poetry

* "How We Become Human New and Selected Poems: 1975 - 2001" (2002)
* "A Map to the Next World" (2000).
* "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky" (1994) received the Oklahoma Book Award.
* "Fishing" (1992)
* "In Mad Love and War" (1990) received an American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award.
* "Secrets from the Center of the World" (1989).
* "She Had Some Horses" (1983).
* "What Moon Drove Me to This?" (1979).
* "The Last Song" (1975).

Children's Book

*"The Good Luck Cat" (2000)

Discography

Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice

* "Letter From the End of the Twentieth Century" (1997).

Poetry

* "Native Joy for Real"
* "She Had Some Horses"
* "When the World As We Knew It Ended"

References

*Bochynski, Pegge. Review of "How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001 by Joy Harjo". "Magill’s Literary Annual, 2003." Ed. John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2003. Pages 379-383.

* "Joy Harjo" by Pegge Bochynski, in "American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Supplement XII" edited by Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. Pages 215-234.

*“She Had Some Horses” by Pegge Bochynski in "Masterplots II, Poetry, Revised edition." Ed. Philip K. Jason. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2002. Pages 3369-3371.

* Stone, Louise M. Update and revision by Pegge Bochynski. “Joy Harjo” in "Magill Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition." Ed. Steven G. Kellman. Pasadena, Calif. Salem Press, 2006. Pages 980-988.

ee also

* List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
* Native American Renaissance
* Native American Studies

External links

* [http://www.joyharjo.com/ Joy Harjo's website]
* [http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/home/gfloren/harjo.htm Joy Harjo, Author - Poet - Musician]
* [http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/harjo_joy.html VG biography]