Episode 109: Joy Harjo

Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)

Books and Selected Other Work by Joy Harjo

POETRY

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: 50 Poems for 50 Years (W.W. Norton, 2022)

An American Sunrise (W. W. Norton, 2019)

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015)

How We Became Human New & Selected Poems: 1975-2001 (W. W. Norton, 2004)

A Map to the Next World (W. W. Norton, 2000)

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (W. W. Norton, 1994)

In Mad Love & War (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)

Secrets from the Center of the World, w. Stephen Strom (University of Arizona Press, 1989)

She Had Some Horses (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983)

NONFICTION

Catching the Light (Why I Write Series, Yale University Press, 2022)

Poet Warrior (W. W. Norton, 2021)

Crazy Brave (W. W. Norton, 2012)

Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo, w. Tanaya Winder (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)

The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (Poets on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1995)

PLAYS

Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses (Wesleyan University Press, 2019)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Remember, w. Michaela Goade (Penguin Random House, 2023)

For a Girl Becoming, w. Mercedes McDonald (University of Arizona Press, 2009)

The Good Luck Cat, w. Paul Lee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000)

Remember (Strawberry Press, 1981)

EDITORIAL

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2021)

When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2020)

Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America, w. Gloria Bird (W.W. Norton, 1998)

ALBUMS

I Pray For My Enemies (2021)

This America (2011)

Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears (2010)

Winding Through the Milky Way (2008)

She Had Some Horses (2006)

Native Joy for Real (2004)

Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century (2003)

Also Referenced

Audre Lorde

Jill Bialosky

John Benedict

Sandra Cisneros

University of Iowa

Bob Dylan Center

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Denison University

University of New Mexico

Poets in Schools

Harvard University

University of California Los Angeles

Institute of American Indian Arts

Bureau of Indian Affairs

University of Arizona

University of New Mexico

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Montana

Paula Vogul, Bard at the Gate

Paula Vogul, Indecent

Congo Square

Theater Squared

John Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

Jim Pepper

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