<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Harjo, Joy]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Harjo, Joy]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/princetonlibrary/rss/search?query=Harjo%2C%20Joy&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:02:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[For A Girl Becoming]]></title><description><![CDATA[A baby girl is welcomed to the breathing world by generations of her family and set on the magnificent journey of becoming. As she grows, she is reminded of her connections to the natural world; to her family, her ancestors, her neighbors; to the source of all magic and sorrow--and of her responsibility to uphold and honor those connections. For a Girl Becoming acts as a blessing and a harbinger for a young girl's life--and reminds those of us who still stand at the door of becoming that it is our relationships with nature and with each other that carry us through it.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1478672</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1478672</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1478672057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324052241/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light]]></title><description><![CDATA["Joy Harjo's play Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light is the centerpiece of this collection that includes essays and interviews concerning the roots and the reaches of contemporary Native Theater. Harjo blends storytelling, music, movement, and poetic language in Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light. The collection is accompanied by interviews with Native theater artists Rolland Meinholtz and Randy Reinholz, and it includes essays on Harjo's work by Mary Kathryn Nagle (an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee nation, playwright, and attorney) and by Priscilla Page (of Wiyot heritage, a writer, performer, and educator), who looks at indigenous feminism, jazz, and performance as influences on Harjo's theatrical work."--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1466587</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1466587</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1466587057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780819578662/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girl Warrior]]></title><description><![CDATA["Informed by her own experiences and those of her ancestors, Harjo offers inspiration and insight for navigating the many challenges of maturation. She grapples with parents, friendships, love, and loss. She guides young readers toward painting, poetry, and music as powerful tools for developing their own ethical sensibility. As Harjodemonstrates, the act of making is an essential part of who we are,a means of inviting the past into the present and a critical tool young women can use to shape a more just future. Lyrical and compassionate, Harjo's call for creativity and empathy is an urgent and necessary work."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1484159</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1484159</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1484159057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>On Coming of Age</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324094173/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember]]></title><description><![CDATA["Picture book adaptation of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem, Remember"--]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1459827</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1459827</guid><category><![CDATA[PICTURE_BOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1459827057</comments><format>PICTURE_BOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593484845/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catching the Light]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory. Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure--to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1455568</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1455568</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1455568057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780300257038/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weaving Sundown in A Scarlet Light]]></title><description><![CDATA[A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1455950</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1455950</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1455950057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Fifty Poems for Fifty Years</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324036487/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poet Warrior]]></title><description><![CDATA["Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Weaving together the voices that shaped her, Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, the teachings of a changing earth, and the poets who paved her way. She explores her grief at the loss of her mother and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member. Moving fluidly among prose, song, and poetry, Poet Warrior is a luminous journey of becoming that sings with all the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo" ]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1444542</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1444542</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1444542057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393248524/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[An American Sunrise]]></title><description><![CDATA[A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1412513</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1412513</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1412513057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324003861/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crazy Brave]]></title><description><![CDATA[A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1308846</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1308846</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1308846057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393073461/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Map to the Next World]]></title><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1138342</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1138342</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1138342057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poetry and Tales</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393047905/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Good Luck Cat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Because her good luck cat Woogie has already used up eight of his nine lives in narrow escapes from disaster, a Native American girl worries when he disappears.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1141418</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1141418</guid><category><![CDATA[PICTURE_BOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1141418057</comments><format>PICTURE_BOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780152321970/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living Nations, Living Words]]></title><description><![CDATA[A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. With work from Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli Long Soldier, among others, this book showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, "poetry [that] emerges from the soul of a community, the heart and lands of the people. In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than 500 living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.".]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1441706</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1441706</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1441706057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393867916/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through]]></title><description><![CDATA["United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets, ranging from Eleazar, a seventeenth-century Native student at Harvard, to Jake Skeets, a young Diné poet born in 1991, and including renowned writers such as Luci Tapahanso, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, and Ray Young Bear. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature, without which no study of American poetry is complete"--]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1430062</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1430062</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1430062057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393356809/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[100 Poems to Break your Heart]]></title><description><![CDATA["100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem"--]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1438709</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1438709</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1438709057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780544931886/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heart of American Poetry]]></title><description><![CDATA["We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what's best in us. In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew--from Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book" and Phillis Wheatley's "To S.M. a Young African Painter, on seeing his Works" to Garrett Hongo's "Ancestral Graves, Kahuku" and Joy Harjo's "Rabbit Is Up to Tricks"--exploring how these poems have sustained his own life and how they might uplift our diverse but divided nation. "This is a personal book about American poetry," writes Hirsch, "but I hope it is more than a personal selection. I have chosen forty poems from our extensive archive and songbook that have been meaningful to me, part of my affective life, my critical consideration, but I have also tried to be cognizant of the changing playbook in American poetry, which is not fixed but fluctuating, ever in flow, to pay attention to the wider consideration, the appreciable reach of our literature. This is a book of encounters and realizations.""--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1451380</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1451380</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hirsch, Edward]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1451380057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781598537260/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry]]></title><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1300874</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1300874</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1300874057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143106432/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>