{"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":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> hosts Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, award-winning Hawai\u02bbi poets"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-harjo-joy.jpg\" alt=\"joy harjo event flyer\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-150179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-harjo-joy.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-harjo-joy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-harjo-joy-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, along with award-winning Pacific and <span aria-label=\"Oiwi\">&#699;&#332;iwi<\/span> poets based in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> will be featured at the 2021 <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Book and Music Festival, hosted in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Better Tomorrow Speaker Series<\/a>. The free live presentation, Living Nations, Living Words: A Conversation with Joy Harjo &#38; Pacific poets, will take place Saturday, October 23 at 3:30 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiibookandmusicfestival.com\/speakers\">Register online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_150201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150201\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-harjo-joy-head-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Poet Laureate Joy Harjo\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-harjo-joy-head-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-harjo-joy-head-93x130.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-harjo-joy-head.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joy Harjo (Photo by: Shawn Miller\/Library of Congress)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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<p>&ldquo;I\u2019m thrilled to welcome the esteemed Joy Harjo to <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> and to the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Book and Music Festival,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Professor of English <strong>Craig Santos Perez<\/strong>, who will serve as moderator. <\/p>\n<p>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 <em>An American Sunrise<\/em>. As a musician, she has produced seven award-winning albums, including <em>I Pray for My Enemies<\/em>. She received the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, <abbr title=\"National Endowment for the Arts\">NEA<\/abbr> and Guggenheim fellowships, and the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<abbr>UH<\/abbr> has become a creative seedbed for Pacific and Native Hawaiian poetry,&rdquo; said <strong>Peter Arnade<\/strong>, dean of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/call\/\">College of Arts, Languages, and Letters<\/a>. &ldquo;It\u2019s exciting that the poet laureate is spotlighting this work and joining us for a conversation with Indigenous poets based in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Among the Pacific poets on the program are: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/07\/oiwi-poet-professor-national-award-publishing-deal\/\"><strong><span aria-label=\"Nou\">No&#699;u<\/span> Revilla<\/strong><\/a>, a queer <span aria-label=\"Oiwi\">&#699;&#332;iwi<\/span> poet and assistant professor of creative writing at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. She also taught poetry at <span aria-label=\"Puuhuluhulu\">Pu&#699;uhuluhulu<\/span> University. Her first book, <em>Ask the Brindled<\/em>, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. She is the winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series Competition. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Mahealani Wendt, author of <em>Uluhaim\u0101lama<\/em> (2007) and co-editor of <em><span aria-label=\"Hoolaulea\">Ho&#699;olaule&#699;a<\/span>: Celebrating 10 Years of Pacific Writing<\/em>. She has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Lehua M. Taitano, familian Kabesa yan Kuetu, a queer Chamoru writer and interdisciplinary artist from Yigu, Gu\u00e5han (Guam) and co-founder of Art 25: Art in the Twenty-fifth Century. She is the author of <em>Inside Me an Island<\/em> and <em>A Bell Made of Stones<\/em>. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Brandy N\u0101lani McDougall<\/strong>, a Kanaka <span aria-label=\"Oiwi\">&#699;&#332;iwi<\/span> poet raised on Maui. She is the author of <em>The Salt-Wind Ka Makani <span aria-label=\"Paakai\">Pa&#699;akai<\/span><\/em> and <em>Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature<\/em>. She is an associate professor of American studies at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moderator Perez is also an acclaimed poet. A Chamoru writer from Guam, he is the author of five books and the co-editor of five anthologies. <\/p>\n<p>This event is presented in partnership with the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Book and Music Festival with the support of the Halekulani Hotel. <\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Better Tomorrow Speaker Series is a joint venture of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Foundation and Kamehameha Schools. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2021 <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Book and Music Festival will be held on October 23 at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1471,342,9],"class_list":["post-150180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-arts-languages-and-letters","tag-english","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150180"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150216,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150180\/revisions\/150216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}