[Yale-readings] TOMORROW: Joy Harjo Reading

[Nancy Kuhl]

Please join us for a poetry reading by poet Joy Harjo on Wednesday, 
April 9th, at  4 pm, at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel 
Street (please note venue change). 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: 
<http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/>http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/.

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 How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, A Map to the 
Next World: Poems, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, which received 
the Oklahoma Book Arts Award, and In Mad Love and War, 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.

For more information about Joy Harjo and examples of her work visit:
<http://www.joyharjo.com/>http://www.joyharjo.com/
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/60
<http://www.nativewiki.org/Joy_Harjo>http://www.nativewiki.org/Joy_Harjo




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