Writers Week Evening Reading | An Evening with Joy Harjo

Please join us for an evening reading with special guest Joy Harjo at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal. Her published works include eleven books of poetry, several plays, children’s books, non-fiction works, and two memoirs. Her many honors include the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.