Keyword: Native Amercan Poet Laureate

" Joy Harjo (born on May 9, 1951, Tulsa, Oklahoma : Muscogee, American) is a poet, musician and author. She is also the first Native American United States Poet Laureate. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late twentieth century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976, and earned an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in its Creative Writing Pr…