Acclaimed Native-American poet Joy Harjo will speak at Agnes Scott College March 29 at 8 p.m. in Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall for Agnes Scott’s 41st Annual Writers’ Festival, the oldest continuous literary event in Georgia.
The event is free and open to the public but tickets are required. For tickets call 404-471-6430.
Harjo, born in Tulsa, Okla., is an internationally known poet, performer, writer and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Her seven books of poetry include such well-known titles as How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky and She Had Some Horses, all published by W.W. Norton. Her poetry has garnered many awards including the New
Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, 1998 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
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She wrote the award-winning children's book The Good Luck Cat (Harcourt) and in 2009 she published a young adult, coming-of-age-book, For a Girl Becoming, which won a Moonbeam Award and a Silver Medal from the Independent Publishers Awards. A memoir, Crazy Brave, is due out from W.W. Norton in 2012.
Held annually since 1972, Agnes Scott’s Writers’ Festival brings nationally acclaimed writers to campus in an atmosphere of community with student writers from the colleges and universities of Georgia.
