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A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation

A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation

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Harjo, Joy, Casper, Robert
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Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, celebrates the stories of her ancestors and family as well as the influences that shaped her work in Poet Warrior: A Memoir. She returns to the Miami Book Fair to talk about the memoir and her historic three terms as laureate. Presented in partnership with the Library of Congress and O, Miami and moderated by Robert Casper, head of Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress.

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Harjo, Joy

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Joy Harjo has published nine poetry collections, most recently An American Sunrise, and Crazy Brave: A Memoir, and edited When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry and Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate. In Poet Warrior: A Memoir (W. W. Norton & Company), she invites readers to travel along her “poet-warrior” road. Harjo listens to ancestors and family stories, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth – owls, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. Here, she celebrates the influences that shape her poetry, including Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, and Navajo horse songs. Moving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member.

Casper, Robert

Robert Casper is head of the Poetry and Literature Center, Library of Congress. He was previously programs director for the Poetry Society of America, the nation’s oldest poetry organization. In that capacity, he organized 50-60 events a year, including poetry readings, panel discussions, conferences, awards ceremonies, festivals, and events that were held in 13 cities across the country. He was also the founding publisher of the literary magazine Jubilat, which published the best of contemporary American poetry, along with interviews and a variety of other short literary forms.

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