Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo (b. 1951) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was the 23rd United States Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2022, the first Native American to hold that honor. Her poetry is generally characterized by: Harjo’s poems frequently use repetition (anaphora) and parallelism, which gives them a chant-like or prayer-like quality. This isn’t just a stylistic choice; it… Read more