An Evening with Joy Harjo: Livestream

This event is free and open to the public. We will be live streaming Joy Harjo's author talk with the National Writer's Series in the Kingsley Library Community Room.

You can also view this event from anywhere! Visit the City Opera House website to request your free virtual ticket: https://nationalwritersseries.org/product/joy-harjo/

Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is serving her second term as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. The author of nine books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise, several plays and children’s books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, her many honors include the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Harjo is being brought to you by an NEA Big Read Grant secured by community partners Traverse Area District Library, the National Writer's Series, Dennos Museum, and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.