Voices of the Nation: Celebrating the Work of U.S. Poet Laureates: Joy Harjo
Voices of the Nation: Celebrating the Work of U.S. Poet Laureates: Joy Harjo
The free three-part “Voices of the Nation: Celebrating the Work of U.S. Poet Laureates” will conclude with an exploration of the work of current laureate Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve in the role. She received the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation for Lifetime Achievement, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Students in the Cal Lutheran honors English class Poetry and the National Consciousness will present selected poems by Harjo, and a panel of Cal Lutheran poets and scholars led by Jacqueline Lyons, associate professor of English and creative writing, will discuss the works and their context. This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Registration is required. To register, go to CalLutheran/edu/voices. For more information, contact Lyons at jlyons@callutheran.edu.