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An Important Honor for Joy Harjo and “Living Nations, Living Words”

November 11, 2022
Folklife Today

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo continues to earn praise for her work in the position. On October 26th at its annual convention, the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries., and Museums (ATALM) presented one of its Guardians of Culture and Lifeways International Awards to the Library of Congress and Harjo for “Living Nations, Living Words,” her signature project as the nation’s first Native American poet laureate. Her project features a sampling of work by 47 Native American poets through an interactive Story Map and a newly developed Library of Congress audio collection. Each location marker reveals a Native poet and features an image, biography and link to hear the poet recite and comment on an original poem. Read more about it in this blog post!

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  • An Important Honor for Joy Harjo and “Living Nations, Living Words”

    from: Folklife Today
    November 11, 2022

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    from: NLS Music Notes
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    from: Teaching with the Library of Congress
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    from: Teaching with the Library of Congress
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