Joy Harjo, the First Native poet to serve as U.
S.
Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry.
This companion Anthology features each poem and poet from the project--including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bits.
Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native Peoples past and present.
Joy Harjo, the First Native poet to serve as U.
S.
Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.
In this country, Poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred Living indigenous nations.
Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, that heritage is a Living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.
The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment.
Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry.
This companion Anthology features each poem and poet from the project--including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others--to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands.
Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native Peoples past and present.
Joy Harjo, the First Native poet to serve as U.
S.
Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.
In this country, Poetry is rooted in the more than 500 Living indigenous nations.
With work from Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli Long Soldier, among others, Living Nations, Living Words showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, Poetry that] emerges from the soul of a community, the heart and lands of the people.
Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry.
This companion Anthology features each poem and poet from the project to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands.
Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native Peoples past and present.
Joy Harjo, the First Native poet to serve as U.
S
