Joy Harjo, the award-winning poet and musician, has been appointed the 23rd U.S. poet laureate, and will become the first Native American writer to hold the position.
U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo, June 6, 2019. She a member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma.
In an interview with The Times, Harjo said she had received an unexpected voicemail message from Rob Casper, head of the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress. "I came to poetry through music first," Harjo told The Times."My mother wrote songs, and we had country swing musicians at our house. That was my first entrance to poetry, and then I found that I loved poetry on the page."
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