Joy Harjo
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Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the U.S., is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She is only the second poet to be appointed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she left home to attend high school at the innovative Institute of American Indian Arts, which was then a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. Harjo began writing poetry as a member of the University of New Mexico’s Native student organization, the Kiva Club, in response to Native empowerment movements. She went on to earn her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teach English, Creative Writing, and American Indian Studies at University of California-Los Angeles, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, Arizona State, University of Illinois, University of Colorado, University of Hawai’i, Institute of American Indian Arts, and University of Tennessee, while performing music and poetry nationally and internationally.
Known for
Credits
Words from a Bear (2019)
as Self
Anthem (2023)
as Self
Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues (—)
as Self
Highway 99: A Double Album (2025)
as Self
The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest (1994)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Pepper's Pow Wow (1996)
as Self
Medicine Woman (2016)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Love and Fury (2020)
as Herself
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting (2021)
as Self - Interviewee
Games of the North (2011)
as Narrator
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (1982)
as Narrative Poetry
Cara Romero: Following the Light (2022)
as Herself