Joy Harjo: Living Nations, Living Words
About the Event:
Poetry and heritage are alive and intertwined in Joy Harjo’s signature project as America’s first Native Poet Laureate. Living Nations, Living Words is an interactive map and accompanying anthology of Native Nations poets and poems from across the country, speaking to themes of displacement, visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Join Harjo and award-winning poet Layli Long Soldier for a conversation about the cadence, topography, and lineage of poetry.
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The program is presented in partnership with the Native American Support Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Poetry Foundation.
About the Book:
- The Chicago Humanities Festival is pleased to partner with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, a not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling.
- When you purchase your copy of Living Nations, Living Words from Seminary Co-op you are directly supporting independent bookselling in Chicago and a vital space for book browsing, discovery, and community.
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Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo’s nine books of poetry include An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Se...
Layli Long Soldier
Layli Long Soldier holds a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an M.F.A. from Bard College. Her poems have appea...
[Event tile image description: The event image at the top left of the event page is an image of Joy Harjo sitting against a shadowed beige colored wall on a sunny day. Harjo sits with her tattooed right hand crossed over her knees. She wears blue jeans, a red shirt, red lipstick, and her brown hair down.]