Tue, Nov 22
|Zoom
Joy Harjo, Catching the Light and Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award brings us her two new volumes, Catching the Light (Yale University Press) and Weaving Sundown (W.W. Norton). Joy will be in conversation with filmmaker & author Ramona Emerson
Date, Time & Location
Nov 22, 2022, 6:00 PM MST
Zoom
About the Event
This event will be live streamed on Zoom only, please register to watch here.
Order Catching the Light online here or pre-order Weaving Sundown online here, alternatively call the store (505) 988-4226
In Catching the Light, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Composed of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory—in both the private, individual journey and as a vehicle for prophetic, public witness. Harjo insists that the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of…