Biography
Joy Harjo entered the world in Tulsa, OK, as a member of the Muskogee Tribe, and has long pursued an integration of verse and sound by weaving together Native American tribal music, jazz, and rock. During her time as a student of painting and theater at the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico, she started composing poems that captured the political atmosphere surrounding Native Americans, and those pieces eventually reached print. After settling temporarily in Denver, where she added the saxophone to her expressive tools, she moved back to New Mexico and established the group Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice. Her voice has surfaced on multiple compilations devoted to Native American performers and creators, in addition to the spoken-word project Letter From the End of the 20th Century, which pairs her texts with musical accompaniment.
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