Joy Harjo
Age: 74 | From: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Person Details
Birthday: 1951-05-09 07:23:14
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Homepage: https://www.joyharjo.com
Movie Involvements: 11
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the U.S., is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She is only the second poet to be appointed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she left home to attend high school at the innovative Institute of American Indian Arts, which was then a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. Harjo began writing poetry as a member of the University of New Mexico’s Native student organization, the Kiva Club, in response to Native empowerment movements. She went on to earn her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teach English, Creative Writing, and American Indian Studies at University of California-Los Angeles, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, Arizona State, University of Illinois, University of Colorado, University of Hawai’i, Institute of American Indian Arts, and University of Tennessee, while performing music and poetry nationally and internationally.
Most Famous Work
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
(2021) Self - Interviewee
Words from a Bear
(2019) Self
Love and Fury
(2020) Herself
Games of the North
(2011) Narrator
Medicine Woman
(2016) Self - Narrator (voice)
Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
(2026) Self
Cara Romero: Following the Light
(2022) Herself
Pepper's Pow Wow
(2026) SelfActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Herself | |
| 2021 | Self - Interviewee | |
| 2020 | Herself | |
| 2019 | Self | |
| 2016 | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2011 | Narrator | |
| 1982 | Narrative Poetry | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Screenplay | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Production Assistant | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |