Native Americans and the National Consciousness: Poetry, Performance, and Conversation with Joy Harjo

UPDATE: Due to Harvard University’s recent on-campus meeting and event guidance around Coronavirus (COVID-19), this event has been canceled. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

In partnership with the Harvard University Native American Program, the Harvard Art Museums present a reading and conversation with Joy Harjo, the 23rd poet laureate of the United States.

Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer, who is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). The author of nine books of poetry, several plays and children’s books, and a memoir (Crazy Brave), she has received many honors, including the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, a PEN USA Literary Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund Writers’ Award, a Rasmuson U.S. Artists Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Harjo is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a founding board member of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. She is executive editor of the forthcoming anthology When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, to be released in 2020. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a Tulsa Artist Fellow.

Following a reading from her most recent book of poetry—the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise (2019)—Harjo will discuss her work with Philip J. Deloria, professor of history at Harvard. Book sales and signing will take place following the event at Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street.

This program is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets can be acquired in person, by phone, or online for a small fee through the Harvard Box Office, beginning at noon on Sunday, March 30. Limit of two tickets per person. For more information, please visit the Harvard Box Office website.

The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm.

Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.

This program is presented by the Harvard University Native American Program with generous support from a private donor gift and the Harvard Art Museums. Co-sponsored by the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center.

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