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Film, Video National Book Festival Presents Joy Harjo

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Title

  • National Book Festival Presents Joy Harjo

Summary

  • Joy Harjo begins her formal duties as the new U.S. poet laureate with an inaugural reading and musical performance of her work at the Library, including from her new book of poetry, "An American Sunrise." In addition to reading from her repertoire of poems spanning a 40-year career, Harjo, an award-winning musician, also will perform with bassist Howard Cloud, keyboardist Robert Muller and guitarist Larry Mitchell.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office, sponsoring body
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2019-09-19.

Notes

  • -  Group name: Poets Laureate. 1
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Joy Harjo.
  • -  Recorded on 2019-09-19.
  • -  Poet Joy Harjo is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and her Native American identity is central to her work. In 2019 she was named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.

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  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024696616

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office, and U.S National Book Festival. National Book Festival Presents Joy Harjo. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-19, 2019. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696616/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Library Of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office, S. B. & National Book Festival, U. S. (2019) National Book Festival Presents Joy Harjo. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-19. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696616/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office, and U.S National Book Festival. National Book Festival Presents Joy Harjo. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-19, 2019. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024696616/>.