In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up le...

Crazy Brave

A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.  In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mi...

An American Sunrise

A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States  In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the d...

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

National best seller Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to ...

Poet Warrior

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

Talking with the Sun

A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the 20th century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri, performed by T.S. Eliot, Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Willem Dafoe, Natasha Trethewey, Meghan O'Rourke, N...

The Essential T.S. Eliot

A BackPax® Adventure. In the frosty north country of upstate New York, once known as "stretching turtle," live today's Tonawanda Seneca people. Members of the indigenous "Six Nations," their government, the "Iroquois Confederacy," inspired America's ...

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