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Illuminations
An American Sunrise
We were running out of breath, as we ran out to meet ourselves. We
were surfacing the edge of our ancestors’ fights, and ready to strike.
It was difficult to lose days in the Indian bar if you were straight.
Easy if you played pool and drank to remember to forget. We
made plans to be professional — and did. And some of us could sing
so we drummed a fire-lit pathway up to those starry stars. Sin
was invented by the Christians, as was the Devil, we sang. We
were the heathens, but needed to be saved from them — thin read more »
Speaker News
CNN
Read Deborah Landau's piece "We are all soft targets": "A failure of imagination may prove tragic for us now."
New York Times
Review of Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise: celebration, crisis, brokenness and healing.
Washington Post
Reviews of new, stunning collections of poetry including Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise and Tina Chang's Hybrida.
NYT Magazine
Read brilliant, tracing poems – including one by Camille Dungy – in this Literary Timeline of African-American History.
An American Sunrise
Congratulations to our new Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo, on the release of her latest: An American Sunrise.
