What can Joy Harjo teach us about our inner territories, our sacred breath, our delightful poet souls?
We’re going to find out. In this Writer’s Society class, we’re exploring Harjo’s voice and work - the rise and fall of her storytelling, the intricate weaving of stunning visuals and heart pounding truths, the intimacy of both grief and aliveness.
She once said, “I feel strongly that I have a responsibility to all the sources that I am: to all past and future ancestors, to my home country, to all places that I touch down on and that are myself, to all voices, all women, all of my tribe, all people, all earth, and beyond that to all beginnings and endings. In a strange kind of sense [writing] frees me to believe in myself, to be able to speak, to have voice, because I have to; it is my survival.”
A woman of the Muskogee Tribe and a three-time poet laureate of the United States, Joy centers landscapes, transformation, myth, politics, remembrance, and inherited stories.
Ready yourself for a class that cradles her life, her courage, her tenderness, her wild, her love, and her many many map lines through the world. For a few hours in March, we’ll learn from one of the greatest poets of our lifetimes, touching the ground where she has walked, trailing story and transformation.
© Karen Kuehn. Courtesy of Blue Flower Arts.
““I turn and return to Harjo’s poetry for her breathtaking complex witness and for her world-remaking language: precise, unsentimental, miraculous.””
5 pm PST
6 pm MST
7 pm Central
8 pm EST
2 am Germany + Denmark
5 am Dubai
If you enjoy this class, check out this class in The Writer’s Society Library:
Uncommon Sense with Jeanette LeBlanc
And these classes in the Red Tent Library:
Mai Huliau i Hulihia: From Turning Point to Transformation with Malialani Carrell
Medusa