Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo (born May 9, 1951 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ) is an American musician and author.
biography
She is a member of the Muskogee people . After finishing school, she first studied art and theater. She later started writing poetry. Harjo played in a band in Denver . She wanted to learn to sing and combined jazz and rock with her poems.
She sent her poems to various newspapers such as B. Massachusetts Review , The Bloomsbury Review , American Voice , Kenyon Review , Beloit Poetry Review , Greenfield Review, and Puerto del Sol .
From 1980 to 1995 she worked at various universities as a lecturer , professor or assistant professor. She later taught at the University of California in Los Angeles .
In 2020 Harjo was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
bibliography
- Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America , WW Norton & Company 1998
- Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales , WW Norton & Company 2001
literature
- Joy Harjo banishes the vision in the present that has been lost: an interpretation of the poem "Vision" by Joy Harjo , student paper by Anja Rozowski, Grin Verlag 2010
Web links
- Joy Harjo official homepage
- Literature by and about Joy Harjo in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harjo, Joy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tulsa , Oklahoma (USA) |