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Harjo, Joy

LC control no.n 81068743
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LC classificationPS3558.A62423
Personal name headingHarjo, Joy
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Variant(s)Harjo-Sapulpa, Joy
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedTulsa (Okla.)
Knoxville (Tenn.)
Santa Fe (N.M.)
Albuquerque (N.M.)
Honolulu (Hawaii)
Birth date1951-05-09
Place of birthTulsa (Okla.)
Field of activityEducation
Poetry
Creek Indians
AffiliationPoetic Justice (Musical group)
Institute of American Indian Arts
University of New Mexico
Iowa Writers' Workshop
University of Arizona
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Profession or occupationPoets
University and college faculty members
Writers
College teachers
Authors
Screenwriters
Flutists
Saxophonists
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Found inAuthor's The last song, c1975.
Her She had some horses, c1982: CIP t.p. (Joy Harjo) data sheet (b. 5/9/51)
For a girl becoming, 2009: ECIP t.p. (Joy Harjo) data view (b. 5/9/1951; member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation; resides in Albuquerque, N. Mexico and Honolulu, Hawaii)
Conflict resolution for holy beings, 2015: title page (Joy Harjo) jacket (Joy Harjo is the author of ten books of poetry; a critically acclaimed poet; She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Johansen, Bruce E. The encyclopedia of Native American biography, 1997: page 161 (Joy Harjo; born in Tulsa, Oklahoma; graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. in 1968. Earned BA from University of New Mexico in 1976 and an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1978. Published several books of poetry, worked as an author of children's stories and a screenwriter, and plays a saxophone in her band, Poetic Justice, and taught at Universities of New Mexico, Colorado at Boulder and Arizona.)
Reed, Jeremy Michael. The Next House, 2019, viewed October 18, 2023: title page (A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree The University of Tennessee, Knoxville) degree approval page (Joy Harjo-Sapulpa, Major Professor)
   <https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/5338>
Joy Harjo website, October 18, 2023: about (Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. ... She is ... the editor of Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry, the companion anthology to her signature Poet Laureate project featuring a sampling of work by 47 Native Nations poets through an interactive ArcGIS Story Map and a newly developed Library of Congress audio collection. ... Harjo performs with her saxophone and flutes, solo and with her band, the Arrow Dynamics Band, and previously with Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice)
   <https://www.joyharjo.com/>