Joy Harjo

Her recorded languages were English and Muscogee.

One child is recorded: Rainy Dawn Ortiz. Other recorded relations include Lois Harjo Ball.

Joy Harjo studied at University of New Mexico, University of Iowa and Institute of American Indian Arts. Her recorded influences include Leslie Marmon Silko, Flannery O'Connor and Simon J. Ortiz.

Joy Harjo worked in poetry, music, novel and teaching.

Recorded position is United States Poet Laureate. She belonged to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Joy Harjo received PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Book Awards, National Women's Hall of Fame, Wallace Stevens Award and Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.

39 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library and Wellcome Collection.

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience. Washing My Mother's Body. Cara Romero. Asrār min qalb al-ʻālam. Kinship. Woman Who Fell from the Sky. Land Carries Our Ancestors. Remember. Una dona valenta. Bright golden haze. Winged words. Remember 9-Copy Floor Display with Merchandising Kit. Mankiller Poems. Catching the Light. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light. Secrets from the Center of the World. THE BEST OF CUTTHROAT. Spiral of Memory. Vastu Astrology. An American Sunrise Lib/E. Poet Warrior. Living Nations, Living Words. The last song. She Had Some Horses. How We Became Human. American Sunrise. Soul Talk, Song Language. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through. The Delicacy and Strength of Lace. An American Sunrise. Crazy Brave. Cutthroat 10th Anniversary A Tribute to Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan. Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light. Conflict resolution for holy beings. What moon drove me to this? In Mad Love and War. The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (Poets on Poetry). The Good Luck Cat. Imagine what it's like : a literature and medicine anthology / edited by Ruth Nadelhaft ; with Victoria Bonebakker., dated 2008, held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

JOY HARJO, Lofty Dogmas, 2005. "Remember" a reading by Joy Harjo. "Remember" a poem by Joy Harjo. Joy Harjo: National Book Festival 2020. "She Had Some Horses" by Joy Harjo. Imagining a Poetics of Loss: Building Communities in the Works of Joy Harjo and Saadi Youssef, Arab Studies Quarterly, 2023. «There were always the stories. And they weren’t just stories, they were the truth», Ticontre: Teoria Testo Traduzione, 2025. Ecological Grief and Anxiety: The Voice of Native American in Joy Harjo’s Selected Poems, Humanis, 2024. Contestation of Discourse on Alcoholism among Native Americans in Joy Harjo’s The Reckoning (2002), J-Lalite, 2020. The Role of Memory and Language in Transformation: Crucial Issues in American Indigenous Poetry, Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature, 2019. Symbolism in The Home Themed Poems in A Selection Of Two Female Native American Poets, Al-Mağallah Al-ʿilmiyyaẗ Li Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Asyūṭ, 2021. “Making Songs of the Marrow”: Joy Harjo’s Music and Traditional Knowledge, American Studies in Scandinavia, 2012. Journée d’études : « L’œuvre de Joy Harjo », Transatlantica, 2025.

10 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive, DataCite (Zenodo), DataCite (Aix-Marseille Université, CIELAM, Malice), DataCite (University of British Columbia), DataCite (Swinburne), DataCite (Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione) and DataCite (Littératures autochtones (Amérique - Australie)).

Poet Warrior: A Memoir (2022) — Internet Archive. She Had Some Horses (2007) — Internet Archive. A map to the next world (2000) — Internet Archive. Reading: Joy Harjo (2014) — Internet Archive. REINVENTING ENGLISH: THE JOAQUINESQUE STYLE AS POSTCOLONIAL RESISTANCE (2026) — DataCite (Zenodo). Résistance culturelle dans les poésies américaines de Joy Harjo, Miguel Asturias et Gaston Miron (2025) — DataCite (Aix-Marseille Université, CIELAM, Malice). Migrant ecocriticism : unbinding movements and spaces in anthologies of ecopoetry (2023) — DataCite (University of British Columbia). The tools of a cartographic poet: unmapping settler colonialism in Joy Harjo's poetry (2024) — DataCite (Swinburne). «There were always the stories. And they weren’t just stories, they were the truth» (2025) — DataCite (Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione). Rencontres avec Joy Harjo - Nantes, Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, du 19 au 24/11/2025 (2025) — DataCite (Littératures autochtones (Amérique - Australie)).

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 21 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)) and 36 deposited research records (DataCite Commons). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Joy Harjo studied at University of New Mexico, University of Iowa and Institute of American Indian Arts. the recorded working language is English and Muscogee.

The field of work recorded is poetry, music and novel. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are poetry. Leslie Marmon Silko, Flannery O'Connor and Simon J. Ortiz are recorded as an influence.

Positions recorded include United States Poet Laureate. Membership is recorded of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Works named in the authority record are An American sunrise : poems.

Distinctions recorded are PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Book Awards and National Women's Hall of Fame.