Joy Harjo
At a glance:
- Series: American Ethnic Writers
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Arts, Music
- Subcategories: Poetry, Poets, Musicians, Singers, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History, Women's history
Article abstract: Joy Harjo has published poetry, written screenplays, lectured, and taught in creative writing programs; she is also a jazz musician and artist.
Joy Harjo's collections of poetry express a close relationship to the environment and the particularities of the Native American and white cultures from which she is descended. She is an enrolled member of the Creek tribe, the mother of two children (a son, Phil, and a daughter, Rainy Dawn), and a grandmother. Various forms of art were always a part of her life, even in childhood. Her grandmother and...
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