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³Increases or specific changes to your credit score are not guaranteed. Certain merchant, product, goods, and service restrictions apply. ²Sezzle can only be used for US and Canada purchases. APRs will vary depending on credit qualifications, loan amount, term, and lender. Rates from 5.99% - 34.99% APR terms from 3 months – 48 months, which may vary by lender. Other payment options are subject to credit approval by third party lenders. Options depend on your purchase amount, may vary by merchant, and may not be available in all states. 25% down payment then three payments of 25% every two weeks for 6 weeks. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by West Linn Public Library.¹Pay in 4 payment option is 0% Annual Percentage Rate (APR). The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally her most recent album is I Pray For My Enemies. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is artist-in-residence for the Bob Dylan Center. She has edited several anthologies of Native American writing including When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through - A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, and Living Nations, Living Words, the companion anthology to her signature poet laureate project. Her many writing awards include the 2022 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2019 Jackson Prize from Poets & Writers, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.

She is also the author of two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, which invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include Weaving Sundown in a Scarlett Light, An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure-to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be.Ībout the Author: In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory. In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. In Catching the Light, Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing. United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for a chat about her most recent memoir, Catching the Light and to discuss her rewarding lifetime as a writer and poet. Register for this author talk and check out other online author talks here: Thursday, November 16th at 1:00 PM | This is a live virtual author talk that will be recorded and accessible for future use.

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