The United States first Native American Poet Laureate (named in the Summer of 2019), Joy Harjo. She began writing as a college student, and now at 68, has written eight books of poetry, a memoir, and two books for young audiences. An important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. Her works include themes such as defining self, the arts, and social justice.

From “A Postcolonial Tale”

“Every day is a reenactment of the creation story. We emerge from

dense unspeakable material, through the shimmering power of

dreaming stuff.

This is the first world, and the last.

Once we abandoned ourselves for television, the box that separates

the dreamer from the dreaming. It was as if we were stolen, put into

a bag carried on the back of a whiteman who pretends to own the

earth and the sky. In the sack were all the people of the world. We

fought until there was a hole in the bag.”

(The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, page 18).

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