JOY HARJO – U.S. Poet Laureate @ 3rd Jazz & World FETE – online concert

America’s first-ever Native Poet Laureate recently recorded a special set of jazz and poetry for the FETE at Duet Jazz club, debuting a number of new tunes from her upcoming album. Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and was named the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019. An accomplished musician, she has released a string of records, nine books of poetry, several plays and children’s books, and a memoir (the superb Crazy Brave). Her many honors include the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, a PEN USA Literary Award, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund Writers’ Award, a Rasmuson US Artist Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Harjo is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and is a founding board member of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. She currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a Tulsa Artist Fellow.

“Resplendent and reverberating… Harjo’s bracing political perspective is matched by timeless wisdom… In clarion, incantatory poems that recalibrate the heart and mind, Harjo conveys both the endless ripples of loss and the brightening beauty and hope of the sunrise.” —Booklist

BIG THANKS TO DUET JAZZ FOR PARTNERING WITH US ON THIS EVENT.