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This is a great collection of indigenous tribes from all across the modern United States. These poems deal with everything from creation stories to everyday life and Indian boarding schools. The inclusion of people‘s from modern day Alaska and Hawaii was really cool. I also liked that they included LGBTQIA voices from within their communities. There was even one poem dedicated to “Native American two-spirit-identified” (non binary) people.

I love this spin on Hamlet.
#JoyHarjo #WhenTheLightOfTheWorldWasSubduedOurSongsCameThrough #Poetry #IndigenousVoices @CBee

This is a far more accurate version of this song. We should teach children this version, sit proudly where they sing these truths, and just maybe things will get a little better.
#JoyHarjo #WhenTheLightOfTheWorldWasSubduedOurSongsCameThrough #Poetry #IndigenousVoices @CBee

I didn‘t notice before that this is a Norton Anthology. This bad boy is going to keep me in poetry for quite a while.
#JoyHarjo #WhenTheLightOfTheWorldWasSubduedOurSongsCameThrough #Poetry #IndigenousVoices

I got these two poetry collections as part of my 2021 reading of (and about) indigenous peoples.
#integrateyourshelf #JoyHarjo #NatalieDiaz #poetry #Joetry2021

Joy Harjo was recently named Poet Laureate of the United States, and is the first Native American to hold that title.

#story #poetrymatters #joyharjo

I remember how the lilac tree outside our house near Boston would whisper to my sisters & I. #naturepoem #JoyHarjo #poetrymonth