Joy Harjo (b. Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, and author of Native American ancestry. Known primarily as a poet, Harjo has also taught at the college level, played tenor saxophone with a band called Poetic Justice, edited literary journals, and written screenplays. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma.
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Bibliography
Poetry
- How We Become Human New and Selected Poems: 1975 - 2001 (2002)
- A Map to the Next World (2000).
- The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (1994) received the Oklahoma Book Award.
- "Fishing" (1992)
- In Mad Love and War (1990) received an American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award.
- Secrets from the Center of the World (1989).
- She Had Some Horses (1983).
- What Moon Drove Me to This? (1979).
- The Last Song (1975).
Children's Book
- The Good Luck Cat (2000)
Discography
Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice
- Letter From the End of the Twentieth Century (1997).
Poetry
- Native Joy for Real
- She Had Some Horses
See also
- List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
- Native American Renaissance
- Native American Studies
