The Canisius College Contemporary Writers Series will welcome internationally renowned writer and performer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Joy Harjo to campus on Tuesday, April 18. The event takes place at 7:00 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center; doors open at 6:30 p.m. and seating is first-come, first-served. A question-and-answer session and reception will follow the reading.
Harjo served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022, the first Native writer so honored. She is the author of 10 books of poetry, most recently Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years, several plays and children’s books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior.
Click here to learn more.
Click here to add this event to your digital calendar.
Submitted by: Mick Cochrane, PhD, professor, English
