Readings & Lectures

Chicago Humanities Festival: Joy Harjo - Living Nations, Living Words

On the left, Joy Harjo sits and looks directly at the camera wearing a red shirt and jeans. There is a square watch on her wrist. On the right, Layli Long Soldier is looking down. She wears black and a hoop earring.

Joy Harjo (left) photo by Karen Kuehn, courtesy of Blue Flower Arts; Layli Long Soldier (right) courtesy of artist.

About

Join us for a reading with US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and award-winning poet Layli Long Soldier for a conversation about the cadence, topography, and lineage of poetry. Poetry and heritage are alive and intertwined in Harjo’s signature project as America’s first Native Poet Laureate; Living Nations, Living Words is an interactive map and accompanying anthology of Native Nations poets and poems from across the country, speaking to themes of displacement, visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment.

Presented in partnership with Chicago Humanities Festival and the Native American Support Program at UIC

Closed captioning provided.

Date

Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 7:00 PM

Location

Please register to receive a link to the digital event.

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  Joy Harjo
  
  Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She earned her BA from the University of New Mexico and MFA from the...
  
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  Layli Long Soldier
  
  Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010)...
  
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