Joy Harjo
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- May 9, 1951
- Birthplace
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the U.S., is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She is only the second poet to be appointed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she left home to attend high school at the innovative Institute of American Indian Arts, which was then a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. Harjo began writing poetry as a member of the University of New Mexico’s Native student organization, the Kiva Club, in response to Native empowerment movements. She went on to earn her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teach English, Creative Writing, and American Indian Studies at University of California-Los Angeles, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, Arizona State, University of Illinois, University of Colorado, University of Hawai’i, Institute of American Indian Arts, and University of Tennessee, while performing music and poetry nationally and internationally.
Filmography
Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues TBA
as Self
Highway 99: A Double Album 2025
as Self
Anthem 2023
as Self
Cara Romero: Following the Light 2022
as Herself
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting 2021
as Self - Interviewee
Love and Fury 2020
as Herself
Words from a Bear 2019
as Self
Medicine Woman 2016
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Games of the North 2011
as Narrator
A Thousand Roads 2005
Screenplay
Pepper's Pow Wow 1996
as Self
- The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest
The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest 1994
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith 1982
as Narrative Poetry, Production Assistant
Credits from TMDB.