Chautauqua Lecture Videos
Title
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings [Video]
Document Type
Video
Publication Date
11-3-2016
Abstract
Joy Harjo, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an internationally known poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Her many writing awards include the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for proven mastery in the art of poetry; a Guggenheim Fellowship; the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Rasmuson United States Artist Fellowship, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 2014 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. On behalf of the judges of the Wallace Stevens Award, Academy of American Poets Chancellor Alicia Ostriker said: “Throughout her extraordinary career as poet, storyteller, musician, memoirist, playwright and activist, Joy Harjo has worked to expand our American language, culture, and soul. A Creek Indian and student of First Nation history, Harjo is rooted simultaneously in the natural world, in earth—especially the landscape of the American Southwest—and in the spirit world. Aided by these redemptive forces of nature and spirit, incorporating native traditions of prayer and myth into a powerfully contemporary idiom, her visionary justice-seeking art transforms personal and collective bitterness to beauty, fragmentation to wholeness, and trauma to healing.”
Keynote Address for Native American Heritage Month.
Part of the Chautauqua Lecture Series: Order and Chaos (2016-2017)
Recommended Citation
Harjo, Joy, "Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings [Video]" (2016). Chautauqua Lecture Videos. 4.
https://encompass.eku.edu/chautauquavideos/4
Copyright
Copyright 2016 Joy Harjo
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