Lecture with Joy Harjo

Join us at the Sandpoint Library for the live-streaming of The Community Library’s annual Hemingway Distinguished Lecture in Ketchum, Idaho! The lecture is presented each July, honoring the month of Ernest Hemingway’s birth and death celebrating the power of words and the creative spirit in a landscape that Hemingway loved.

This year’s lecture features JOY HARJO, who in 2019 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.

The live event in Ketchum is SOLD OUT. Here is your chance to view it live in Sandpoint!

Brought to you in partnership with The Community Library and the Sandpoint Friends of the Library.

About Joy Harjo:

Harjo’s ten 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. 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. 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 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. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally; her most recent album is I Pray For My Enemies. She is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.