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Please join us for a poetry reading by poet Joy Harjo on Wednesday, April
9th, at 4 pm, at the <b>Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel
Street (please note venue change)</b>. This event is co-sponsored by the
Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library and the
Native American Cultural Center at Yale. The reading is free and open to
the public. For additional information about poetry at the Beinecke
Library visit:
<a href="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/">
http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/</a>. <br><br>
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, poet Joy Harjo is an enrolled member of the
Muskogee Tribe. She is the author of many collections of poetry,
including <i>How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems</i>, <i>A Map to
the Next World: Poems</i>, <i>The Woman Who Fell From the Sky</i>, which
received the Oklahoma Book Arts Award, and <i>In Mad Love and War</i>,
which received an American Book Award. She has received the Delmore
Schwartz Memorial Award, the American Indian Distinguished Achievement in
the Arts Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award, the
William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.<br><br>
For more information about Joy Harjo and examples of her work visit:<br>
<a href="http://www.joyharjo.com/">http://www.joyharjo.com/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/60" eudora="autourl">
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/60<br>
</a><a href="http://www.nativewiki.org/Joy_Harjo">
http://www.nativewiki.org/Joy_Harjo</a><br><br>
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