Joy Harjo Reading
Thursday, April 24 | 11 AM
Macon Campus | Volleyball Gym
In a return visit to Macon, American poet, playwright, and musician Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the 23rd U.S. poet laureate, will read from her work at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 24, at Middle Georgia State University (MGA). The reading will take place in the Volleyball Gym on the Macon Campus and is free and open to the public.
Harjo, who served three terms as the 23rd U.S poet laureate, is making her third appearance at MGA. The Oklahoma-born writer and musician is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, which has ancestral ties to what is now Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon.
Harjo's scheduled reading is supported by Georgia Humanities, Ocmulgee Mounds Association, Georgia Council for the Arts, the National Humanities Center, MGA School of Arts & Letters, and the MGA Foundation.
