Joy Harjo's Blog, page 9

Following the Song Line

Reading an essay by Oliver Sacks, "Altered States". In the opening paragraph he states:"To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape...we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need....to get beyond ourselves...in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings."

Here is the place

Recent Radio Interview On First Person Radio

RECENT Radio Interview

On First Person Radio

with Laura Waterman Wittstock





Hear Interview:
Joy’s Interview is at 7:40 in the recording.
http://migizi.org/media/FPR_2012-09-1...



More Information: http://tinyurl.com/6tna7hm

Joy at National Book Festival in DC

Reading and Book Signing



Saturday, September 22

2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival



http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/


At the DC National Mall

10:55-11:40 am Joy Harjo/Book signing at noon.



More Information: http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/jo...

Joy Harjo RADIO Interview September 12

First Person Radio
Wed. September 12, 2012

KFAI   9 - 10 am Central Time



Local Stations: 90.3 Minneapolis & 106.7 St. Paul






Listen on kfai.org/firstpersonradio 

or MIGIZI at http://tinyurl.com/6tna7hm


Laura Waterman Wittstock interviews Joy Harjo. about her new book - Crazy Brave. Its a memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice. Harjo’s tale of a

September 8th Joy Harjo Performance

September 8th

Joy Harjo Performance 

and she will MC the Indian Summer Music Festival

7 pm

Indian Summer Music Festival, Milwaukee Lakefront

Henry Maier Festival Park, 200 North Harbor Drive, Milwaukee, WI

http://www.indiansummer.org/

September 6th Poetry and Music Performance w/ Larry Mitchell

September 6th 

Poetry and Music Performance w/ Larry Mitchell followed by book signing

Returning The Gift Writers and Storytellers Conference 2012

7 pm

Weasler Auditorium at Marquette University 

1506 W. Wisconsin Avenue



Milwaukee, WI




http://yukhika-latuhse.org/Agenda.html

http://yukhika-latuhse.org/yukhika-la...

Campus map: http://www.marquette.edu/campus-map/

My last Muscogee Nations News Column: July 2012

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This Song is a Pathway

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CRAZY BRAVE is officially born!

Today, Talk of the Nation on NPR at 2PM CDT, and tomorrow GOODREADS live conversation at 3PM PDT. Please join in. Tomorrow night The Central Public Library with Keren Taylor moderating. Then, to Seattle, KPFA event in Oakland, Bookworks in Albuquerque. The tour resumes a week later with the Collected Works in Santa Fe, Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Tattered Cover in Denver, the Boulder

CRAZY BRAVE

There's a post that comes up when you Google CRAZY BRAVE that is title an "Excerpt from Crazy Brave."
For the record, it isn't an excerpt.
It's one of the over a hundred pages I deleted from the manuscript.
And I've rewritten the vignette that now appears as an "excerpt".
Tonight--on a new song from an older poem....
and need to finish packing, and get ready to be on Talk of the Nation tomorrow