First Draft - Joy Harjo

From First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Mitzi Rapkin

Joy Harjo was the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. She is the author of more than ten books of poetry including Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years and the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise, which was a 2020 Oklahoma Book Award Winner. Her new book is Washing My Mother’s Body: A Ceremony for Grief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices