Posts by Myah Wilmarth
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
November 29, 2019 – While she is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, Joy Harjo has long ties to New Mexico. She graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of New Mexico. In June, the Library of Congress named Harjo America’s poet laureate.…
Read MoreJoy Harjo, Teton Saltes, “¡Las Sandinistas!”, Our Land
This week on New Mexico in Focus, we celebrate Joy Harjo, a groundbreaking poet and New Mexico treasure. An enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma, Harjo went to school at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and was both a student and faculty member at UNM. Earlier this year,…
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