Joy Harjo has an official website, with separate tabs to find out information about her poetry, music, and video/audio performances.  The Voices from the Gaps website has a nice biographical sketch of Harjo, as does the Internet Public Library's Native American Authors Project.  Joy is  featured at the American Passages site from Annenberg/CPB under the heading "Poetry of Liberation," which also includes some useful activities (look for the "author questions" and "selected archives items" links) for understanding Harjo's poetry. To find out more about Poetic Justice, the musical group Harjo performed with for several years, visit the Silver Wave Records website.  (If you have iTunes, go to Karen Strom's page to find direct links to purchase selected performances of Harjo's music and poetry.)

Watch and listen to Natalie Gawdiak explain why Harjo's "Fishing" is an important poem to her at the Favorite Poem Project website.

Harjo's poem "Remember" (from How We Became Human) has a couple of interesting web versions: one  is illustrated and has audio (music); the other is a hypertext with notes for key words and phrases.

In 1992, Joy Harjo participated in the Poetics and Politics seminar at the University of Arizona; a video clip of her reading as well as an interview and other materials are available on-line.

On April 17, 1998, Harjo did a reading at the DIA Center in New York City; read Brighde Mullins's introduction of her to hear one commentator's views of the power of Harjo's poetry.  You can also read J. Scott Bryson's scholarly analysis of  Harjo as an ecological poet (from MELUS fall 2002) online.

If you're interested in learning about the Creek language, try the Creek Language Archive.  You can also learn about Muscogee history on-line.  The Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma has an official website that you may find useful.
 
 

 

This page was last modified on 23 March 2007.  Send questions/comments to Nancy J. Peterson.