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X-WR-CALNAME:A Conversation with Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Nation
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for A Conversation with Joy Harjo featuring Readings an
 d Curated Q & A about her newly released book “Girl Warrior: On Coming o
 f Age”\n\nRSVP REQUIRED: https://tinyurl.com/JoyHarjoGirlWarrior \n\nSea
 ts will be limited - first come\, first serve!\n\nDuring this event\, Joy 
 Harjo will be speaking about her newly released book Girl Warrior: On Comi
 ng of Age\, where she speaks directly to Native girls and women\, sharing 
 stories about her own coming of age to bring renewed attention to the pivo
 tal moments of becoming\, including forgiveness\, failure\, falling\, risi
 ng up\, and honoring our vast family of beings.\n\nJoy Harjo is an interna
 tionally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served 
 three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 
 and is the winner of the Poetry Society of America's 2024 Frost Medal\, Ya
 le's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry\, and was recently honored w
 ith a National Humanities Medal.\n\nThe author of eleven books of poetry\,
  including the highly acclaimed\, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fift
 y Poems for Fifty Years\, several plays\, children's books\, and non-ficti
 on works\, and two memoirs\, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior\, her many honor
 s include the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achieveme
 nt Award\, the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Fo
 undation\, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award\, and a Gug
 genheim Fellowship. Cloud Runner\, Harjo's twelfth book of poetry\, will b
 e published by W.W. Norton in the fall of 2026.\n\nThis event is co-sponso
 red by: The Centers for Equity\, Community\, and Leadership | Native Ameri
 can Studies | Queer Student Resource | Native American Cultural Center | F
 eminist Gender and Sexuality Studies | Muwekma-Tah-Ruk | Division of Liter
 atures\, Cultures\, and Languages | Hume Writing Center | Theater and Perf
 ormance Studies | The Institute for Advancing Just Societies | American St
 udies Program | Sociology
GEO:37.424427;-122.172672
LOCATION:Black Community Services Center\, Community Room
SUMMARY:A Conversation with Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Nation
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/wcc-presents-a-conversation
 -with-joy-harjo
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