JOY HARJO

with Larry Mitchell and John Rangel

at the Anasazi Fields, June 13, 2010

 

Photography by Jeff Hartzer Courtesy AquilaArts.com

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Any time spent with the Master Poet and Visionary, Joy Harjo, is a blessed time.Our afternoon of cool breezes and soft words, with soulful music, and of course poetry, was pure magic at the Anasazi Wine Fields gallery space in Placitas, New Mexico, June 13, 2010. Not too hot; not too cold; it was just right.

 

 

 

Joy Harjo on sax and flute

 

 

 

 

"I don't always live up to my poems."

Joy Harjo

 

 

   

For Joy Harjo

I took her hand in mine
hoping to lend myself a hand
up from the frozen earth of my time
to the starry heavens of her time.
Thank you for your touch;
thank you for your song;
for the answers of your new world:
war less,
desire less.

Jeff Hartzer ©2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIO for JOY HARJO (courtesy Duende Poetry Series):

Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. Her seven books of poetry include She Had Some Horses, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems. Her poetry has garnered many awards including the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas; and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has released four award-winning CD's of original music and performances including Winding Through the Milky Way, for which she just won a NAMMY for Best Female Artist of the Year. She was awarded a Rasmusson: US Artists Fellowship. She performs internationally with the Arrow Dynamics Band. Her one-woman show, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light premiered at the Wells Fargo Theater in 2009. For A Girl Becoming, a young adult/coming of age book with illustrations by Mercedes McDonald is Harjo’s most recent publication. She is a founding board member of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Harjo writes a column “Comings and Goings” for her tribal newspaper, the Muscogee Nation News. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

 

Albino Carillo opens for Joy Harjo

BIO for Albino Carrillo (courtesy Duende Poetry Series):Albino Carrillo is author of In the City of Smoking Mirrors from the University of Arizona Press. He is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at the University of Dayton and is a graduate of University of New Mexico. Albino’s poems are in The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007) and Camino Del Sol: 15 Years of Latina and Latino Poetry (Arizona, 2010).

 

 

 

Anasazi Wine Fields: gorgeously New Mexican

 

 

Gosh!

The Amazing Larry Goodell

Larry G and Debra Landau

 

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Debra Landau, Joy Harjo, Pam Colton

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