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The Roundtable

Spotlight Series with the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo at Tanglewood

By Joe Donahue

Published July 29, 2022 at 11:10 AM EDT

Joy Harjo

Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo will be the focus of this Saturday’s Spotlight Series at Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall in Lenox, MA at 5PM.

The event is a journey celebrating creativity through acknowledgement of the ancestors of poetry and music in the story field of the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate.

Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in an contemplation of her trailblazing life. Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. "Poet Warrior" is also the title of her new memoir.

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