Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo
Reading Date: Thursday, December 1, 2016
- Welcome
- Introduction
- Opening remarks and song
- "My House Is the Red Earth," "If You Look with the Mind of the Swirling Earth," and "Don't Bother the Earth Spirit"
- "Once the World Was Perfect"
- "Rabbit Is Up to Tricks"
- "Entering the Principality of O'ahu by Sky Roads"
- "Rainy Dawn"
- "Talking with the Sun"
- "Indian School Night Song Blues"
- "Humans were created...," "When I woke up...," "This is only one...," "Where we lived...," "Midnight is a horn player...," "When I walk over to join you...," "The day went on...," "Everyone comes into the world..."
- "By the Way"
- "For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet"
- "Equinox"
- Question and Answer Session
Welcome-26072
by Tyler Meier
Introduction-26074
by Pam Uschuk
Opening remarks and song-26076
"My House Is the Red Earth," "If You Look with the Mind of the Swirling Earth," and "Don't Bother the Earth Spirit"-26078
Harjo, Joy. How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems. New York: Norton, 2002.
"Once the World Was Perfect"-26080
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Harjo, Joy. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. New York: Norton, 2015.
"Rabbit Is Up to Tricks"-26082
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Harjo, Joy. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. New York: Norton, 2015.
"Entering the Principality of O'ahu by Sky Roads"-26084
Harjo, Joy. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. New York: Norton, 2015.
"Rainy Dawn"-26086
Harjo, Joy. How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems. New York: Norton, 2002.
"Talking with the Sun"-26088
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Harjo, Joy. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. New York: Norton, 2015.
"Indian School Night Song Blues"-26090
Harjo, Joy. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. New York: Norton, 2015.
"Humans were created...," "When I woke up...," "This is only one...," "Where we lived...," "Midnight is a horn player...," "When I walk over to join you...," "The day went on...," "Everyone comes into the world..."-26092
Differs slightly from published versions. Includes jazz interludes played on the saxophone.
Annotation:
Harjo, Joy. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. New York: Norton, 2015.
"By the Way"-26094
Harjo, Joy. "By the Way." The New Yorker, vol. 92, no. 40, 5 Dec. 2016, pp. 52-53.
"For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet"-26096
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Harjo, Joy. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. New York: Norton, 2015.
"Equinox"-26098
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Harjo, Joy. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. New York: Norton, 2015.
Question and Answer Session-26100
To request a transcript or a captioned version of this audio or video material as a disability-related accommodation, please contact poetry@email.arizona.edu or 520-626-3765.
Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Africana Studies Department, UA Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice, UA College of Science, UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, UA Institute of the Environment, UA Poetry Center
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
Joy Harjo reads from Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015) and How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems (2002). She also plays flute and soprano saxophone. This reading was given as part of the Climate Change & Poetry Series.
- nature
- family
- seasons
- ecology
- water
- hawaii
- songs
- rain
- native american
- summer
- ancestry
- american indian
- boarding school
- clouds
- animals
- creation
- spirituality
- daughters
- essay
- birth
- forgiveness
- monologue
- saxophone
- ancestors
- earth
- flute
- sun
- jazz music
- question and answer
- q and a
- sonoran desert
- outdooors
- climate change
- crows
readingComments