| February 2, 2018 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 4:30 pm |
University of Oregon
Poetry reading by Joy Harjo
Straub Hall, Room 156
1451 Onyx St.
Free & open to the public
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The UO campus will host renowned author Joy Harjo for a poetry reading and other activities on the UO campus on Friday, February 2, 2018, in cooperation with the Eugene Public Library (EPL). The campus visit is sponsored by the Native American Studies Program; Common Reading, Division of Undergraduate Studies; and the Center for the Study of Women in Society, in collaboration with Eugene Public Library.
If you’re coming from off-campus, be aware that parking on or near the UO campus can be challenging. Be sure to plan your access in advance in order to make it on time to the reading! Some possibilities include: Matthew Knight Arena parking garage; city streets with free two-hour parking in nearby neighborhoods. Metered locations on the street. Campus Map
Eugene Public Library
Talk by Joy Harjo
Sat., Feb. 3, 3:00 p.m.
Downtown Library (10th & Olive)
The Eugene Public Library will feature a talk by Joy Harjo as part of the NEA Big Read at their downtown location on Saturday, February 3, at 3 p.m. All NEA Big Read events: www.eugene-or.gov/library
Joy Harjo / photo by Karen Kuehn
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Joy Harjo is an internationally known poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Her eight books of poetry include Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award.
She is the recipient of the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for proven mastery in the art of poetry; a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the United States Artist Fellowship. In 2014 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
Harjo holds the Chair of Excellence in Creative Writing, Department of English, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally, solo and with her band, the Arrow Dynamics. She has five award-winning CDs of music including the award-winning album Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears and Winding Through the Milky Way, which won a Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year in 2009.
