Her one-woman show, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, which features guitarist Larry Mitchell premiered in Los Angeles in 2009, with recent performances at Joe’s Pub in New York City, LaJolla Playhouse as part of the Native Voices at the Autry, and the University of British Columbia. Most recently she performed We Were There When Jazz Was Invented at the Chan Centre at UBC in Vancouver, BC, and appeared at the San Miguel Writer’s Conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She has appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, in venues in every major U.S. She performs nationally and internationally solo and with her band, The Arrow Dynamics. She has released four award-winning CD's of original music and won a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year. “Joy Harjo is a poet of music just as she is a poet of words.Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. Her most recent CD release is a traditional flute album: Red Dreams, a Trail Beyond Tears. magazine.Īlso a renowned musician, Joy Harjo has released four award-winning CDs of original music and in 2009 won a Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year for Winding Through the Milky Way. Harjo’s memoir, Crazy Brave, tells of her journey to becoming a poet and was called “The best kind of memoir, an unself-conscious mix of autobiography, spiritual rumination, cultural evaluation, history and political analysis told in simple but authoritative and deeply poetic prose,” by Ms. She also wrote the award-winning childrens’ book, The Good Luck Cat, and in 2009 she published a young adult, coming-of-age-book, For A Girl Becoming, which won a Moonbeam Award and a Silver Medal from the Independent Publishers Awards. Harjo’s poetry has garnered many awards, including the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, 1998 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.Īdditionally, she co-edited an anthology of contemporary Native American women’s writing, Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Native Women's Writing of North America, one of the London Observer's Best Books of 1997.
She is also author of a memoir, Crazy Brave, and Soul Talk, Song Language, a collection of essays and interviews. Joy Harjo is a poet and performer whose seven books of poetry include How We Became Human, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and She Had Some Horses.
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