Joy Harjo, our new Poet Laureate

Joy Harjo - photo from Wikipedia

Hooray for the Library of Congress in appointing Joy Harjo as the 23rd poet laureate of the United States.

She's a member of the Muskogee Creek Nation and the first Native American poet laureate.

Rachel Martin interviewed Joy for NPR's Morning Edition.

Kevin Young interviewed  Tracy K. Smith, the previous poet laureate, for The New Yorker Radio Hour.  
See https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/aaron-sorkin-kills-a-mockingbird-and-tracy-k-smith-takes-a-journey

Tracy read a poem called "No" by Joy Harjo, which was published in Tracy's 2018 anthology American Journal: 50 Poems for Our Time.

Tracy drove around the US reading poems and interviewing people during her two-year poem as poet laureate.

I ordered the American Journal--as soon as I get the book, I'll add the poem to this blog post.