Joy Harjo (US Poet Laureate) with a reading for the 2020 National Book Festival

Joy Harjo (US Poet Laureate) with a reading for the 2020 National Book Festival

Joy Harjo is the 23rd and current United States Poet Laureate—the first Native American to receive the honor. A member of the Muskogee (Creek) nation, her most recent poetry collection is “An American Sunrise: Poems” (Norton), from which she here reads the poem “Running.” Her recent anthology is “When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry” (Norton).