{"id":1868,"date":"2019-10-08T11:21:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:33:15","slug":"joy-harjo-celebrated-at-the-library-of-congress-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2019\/10\/08\/joy-harjo-celebrated-at-the-library-of-congress-in-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Harjo Celebrated at the Library of Congress in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> On September 19th, our very own Joy Harjo became the 23rd (and first Native American) U.S. Poet Laureate.\u00a0 Her inaugural celebration and performance at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. was attended by well over 500 people, and the reception beforehand included a number of her UNM English Department friends and colleagues.\u00a0 Those in attendance included Sharon and Teddy Warner, Minrose Gwin and Ruth Salvaggio, David and Mona Johnson (David was Joy&#8217;s first poetry teacher), and the indefatigable Mary Powers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-3-816x612.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To see more about the event from the Library of Congress, including Harjo&#8217;s performance and Q&amp;A, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.loc.gov\/joy-harjo\/activities-at-the-library\">The Library of Congress&#8217; Research Guide<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-5.jpg 960w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-5-816x612.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Joy-Harjo-inaugural-2-816x612.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 19th, our very own Joy Harjo became the 23rd (and first Native American) U.S. Poet Laureate.\u00a0 Her inaugural celebration and performance at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. was attended by well over 500 people, and the reception beforehand included a number of her UNM English Department friends and colleagues.\u00a0 Those in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-appointments","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}