{"id":150180,"date":"2021-10-20T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T02:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=150180"},"modified":"2021-10-20T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T02:49:01","slug":"uh-hosts-poet-laureate-joy-harjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/20\/uh-hosts-poet-laureate-joy-harjo\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> hosts Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, award-winning Hawai\u02bbi poets"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, along with award-winning Pacific and ʻŌiwi<\/span> poets based in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> will be featured at the 2021 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Book and Music Festival, hosted in partnership with the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Better Tomorrow Speaker Series<\/a>. The free live presentation, Living Nations, Living Words: A Conversation with Joy Harjo & Pacific poets, will take place Saturday, October 23 at 3:30 p.m. Register online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Harjo is a world-renowned performer and writer of the Native American tribe Muscogee (Creek) Nation. The program coincides with the publication of a historic new anthology of Native poetry, edited by Harjo, and includes work by all of the program guests. <\/p>\n

“I\u2019m thrilled to welcome the esteemed Joy Harjo to UH<\/abbr> and to the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Book and Music Festival,” said UH<\/abbr> Professor of English Craig Santos Perez<\/strong>, who will serve as moderator. <\/p>\n

Harjo, who is serving her third term as poet laureate, is the author of plays, children\u2019s books, two memoirs and nine books of poetry, including An American Sunrise<\/em>. As a musician, she has produced seven award-winning albums, including I Pray for My Enemies<\/em>. She received the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, NEA<\/abbr> and Guggenheim fellowships, and the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award. <\/p>\n

“UH<\/abbr> has become a creative seedbed for Pacific and Native Hawaiian poetry,” said Peter Arnade<\/strong>, dean of UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s College of Arts, Languages, and Letters<\/a>. “It\u2019s exciting that the poet laureate is spotlighting this work and joining us for a conversation with Indigenous poets based in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.” <\/p>\n

Among the Pacific poets on the program are: <\/p>\n