Joy Harjo
Actor
Biography
Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the U.S., is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She is only the second poet to be appointed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she left home to attend high school at the innovative Institute of American Indian Arts, which was then a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. Harjo began writing poetry as a member of the University of New Mexico’s Native student organization, the Kiva Club, in response to Native empowerment movements. She went on to earn her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teach English, Creative Writing, and American Indian Studies at University of California-Los Angeles, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, Arizona State, University of Illinois, University of Colorado, University of Hawai’i, Institute of American Indian Arts, and University of Tennessee, while performing music and poetry nationally and internationally.
Filmography
Love and Fury
as Herself 2020
Cara Romero: Following the Light
as Herself 2022
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
as Narrative Poetry 1982
Pepper's Pow Wow
as Self 1996
Words from a Bear
as Self 2019
Medicine Woman
as Self - Narrator (voice) 2016
Games of the North
as Narrator 2011
Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
as Self TBA
The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest
as Self - Narrator (voice) 1994