Joy Harjo, an acclaimed poet and author who served three terms as the U.S. Poet Laureate, will visit Hudson Valley Community College on Wednesday, November 6. Her appearance will celebrate National Native American Heritage Month.
The event will take place at 11 a.m. in the BTC Auditorium on the Troy campus. It will feature a talk, followed by a Q&A session and a book signing. This event is free and open to the public.
Harjo is the author of 10 poetry books, several plays, children’s books, and two memoirs. She has received numerous awards, including Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Prize. She is also a Guggenheim Fellow. Harjo serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and was the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Bob Dylan Center, which opened in 2022 in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Her poetry is known for its musicality, intimacy, and political insight. It often weaves together ancestral memory and tribal histories with themes of resilience and love. In 2022, she published “Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years.”
In addition to her writing, Harjo is a musician and performer with several award-winning albums. Her latest album, “I Pray for My Enemies,” was released in 2021.
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