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Join your host, Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an interview with Joy Harjo (Mvskoke), a poet, playwright, musician, and singer who will discuss her new CD, Winding Through the Milky Way. The program will include some musical selections from her new music, as well as news about the opening of her one-woman play, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, which opens later this month at the Wells Fargo Theater in Los Angeles. The interview will also include a discussion about the relationship between poetry and song in Harjo’s creative work, her journey to becoming a singer and saxophonist, the politics of cultural hybridity and Native music, and her ties to Hawai`i, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Harjo’s seven books of poetry include: She Had Some Horses, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems. She has released three award-winning CDs of original music and performances: Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century, Native Joy for Real, and She Had Some Horses. Her poetry has garnered many awards including a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award: the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas; and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. A song from her forthcoming CD, Winding Through the Milky Way, just won a New Mexico Music Award. She has received the Eagle Spirit Achievement Award for overall contributions in the arts, from the American Indian Film Festival and a US Artists Fellowship for 2009. Original air-date: 3-10-09.
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