{"id":16289,"date":"2021-09-28T22:17:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T02:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=16289"},"modified":"2021-09-28T22:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T02:17:53","slug":"gaylord-news-poet-laureate-joy-harjo-begins-historic-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/09\/28\/gaylord-news-poet-laureate-joy-harjo-begins-historic-third-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaylord News: Poet laureate Joy Harjo begins historic third term"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joy Harjo, a citizen of the Muscogee Nation, has served as the Poet Laureate of the United States since September 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller, Library of Congress<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n
First Native American poet laureate begins third term, releases a memoir<\/div>\r\n
Tuesday, September 28, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Nancy Marie Spears<\/div>\r\n
Cronkite News<\/DIV>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nJoy Harjo of Oklahoma, the first Native American woman to serve as the nation\u2019s poet laureate, has begun her third term \u2013 an honor previously bestowed only once. Robert Pinsky was the first U.S. poet laureate to serve a third term, in 1999.

<\/P>\r\n\u201cThroughout the pandemic, Joy Harjo has shown how poetry can help steady us and nurture us,\u201d Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a statement. \u201cI am thankful she is willing to continue this work on behalf of the country. A third term will give Joy the opportunity to develop and extend her signature project.\u201d

<\/P>\r\nThat project is \u201cLiving Nations, Living Words,\u201d a sampling of work by 47 Native Nations poets through an interactive ArcGIS Story Map<\/a>, which visualizes locations and histories of Native poets in the U.S., and a newly developed Library of Congress audio collection<\/a>.

<\/P>\r\n\u201cJoy is our first Native laureate, but I don\u2019t think the historic nature of her laureateship played a big part in the decision,\u201d Rob Casper, head of Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress, said of Harjo\u2019s third term. \u201cIt was really more about unfinished work.\u201d

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