Joy Harjo
Introduction by Cara Romero, Director of Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program
It is a great honor for Bioneers to welcome to our main stage for the first time one of the most illustrious cultural figures on this continent, the 23rd (and three-term!) Poet Laureate of the United States (2019-22), the first ever Native American author in that role. A winner of countless prestigious awards (including, most recently, a National Humanities Medal) and author of ten books of poetry, plays, children’s books and two memoirs, as well as the editor of three groundbreaking anthologies of Native literature, Joy Harjo is also a highly accomplished musician and performer. A resident of the Muscogee Nation Reservation in Oklahoma, she was also selected in 2022 to be the first Artist-in-Residence at the new Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa.
Zellerbach Hall
March 28th | 11:30 am to 11:55 am
Joy Harjo
U.S. Poet Laureate
Joy Harjo, the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate and member of the Muscogee Nation, is the author of ten books of poetry, several plays, children’s books, two memoirs, and seven music albums. Her honors include Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she lives.
Introduced by
Cara Romero
