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11/5/01

POET-MUSICIAN JOY HARJO PART OF SLU WRITERS SERIES

CANTON - Poet-musician Joy Harjo will perform at 
St. Lawrence University on Thursday, November 15, at 
8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall, part 
of the St. Lawrence Writers Series. The event is open 
to the public, free of charge.
	Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and an enrolled member 
of the Muscogee Nation, Harjo is a graduate of the Iowa 
Writer's Workshop and the author of six collections of 
poetry, with a seventh collection forthcoming from Norton 
in 2002. She is the editor of Re-Inventing the Enemy's 
Language: Native Women's Writing of North America; her 
first book of stories, A Love Supreme, is also forthcoming 
from Norton. Her honors include the Lila Wallace-Readers 
Digest Award, the Native Writers Lifetime Achievement Award, 
the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement 
Award and the William Carlos Williams Award, from the 
Poetry Society of America.
	Harjo is also a talented musician and songwriter. 
She and her band Poetic Justice have performed worldwide, 
opening for such acts as Bonnie Raitt and Toad the Wet 
Sprocket. Their first album, Letter From The End Of The 
Twentieth Century, was released by Silverware records in 
1997 and received the First Americans in the Arts Outstanding 
Musical Achievement Award. She and her new band, The Real 
Revolution, will release Crossing The Border this fall.
	Harjo is a visiting professor at UCLA and, when 
not performing, lives in Hawaii.

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