Goldtrap Lecture: Crazy Brave

Date/Time:	Monday, 01 Apr 2013 at 8:00 pm
Location:	Great Hall, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
Contact:
Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Diversity Lectures
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Author, poet and musician Joy Harjo is one of the leading Native American voices of our time. Her new memoir, "Crazy Brave," is a tale of a hardscrabble youth, teenage motherhood, and her journey to becoming an internationally recognized writer and performer. Her body of work includes seven books of poetry and four CDs. The 2013 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture and the 2013 English Department Goldtrap Lecture.

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Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a member of the Muscogee/Mvskoke Nation.

Her books include:
The Last Song, 1975
What Moon Drove Me to This? 1979
She Had Some Horses 1984, 2008
Secrets from the Center of the World, 1989
In Mad Love and War, 1990
Fishing, 1991
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, 1994
The Spiral of Memory, 1996
Reinventing the Enemy's Language, 1997
The Good Luck Cat, 2000
A Map to the Next World, 2000
How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems, 2003
For a Girl Becoming, 2009

Joy Harjo also performs her poetry and plays saxophone with her band, Poetic Justice. She has performed with the Honor the Earth Tour with the Indigo Girls, at the Atlanta Olympics, on HBO Def Poetry Jam and Bill Moyer's Power of the Word TV Series, at the Sundance Film Festival, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Her many honors include The American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award, the Josephine Miles Poetry Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.