An Evening With Joy Harjo

On Thursday, November 5 at 7:00pm, Magic City Books and Tulsa Artist Fellowship are excited to present a special event with Joy Harjo to celebrate the publication of her new book, Cloud Runner.

This ticketed event will take place at All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S Peoria Ave. Tickets include one (1) copy of Cloud Runner ($26.99 value) and one (1) general admission seat at the event.

Want multiple tickets but not multiple books? You'll have the option at the event to donate any extra copies to a local organization.

All books will be available for pickup at the event.

There is a limit of four tickets per transaction. Please provide the full name and email address of each ticket holder so that all event notifications and information can be sent to all attendees.

If you have a ticket and are unable to attend the event, you will be able to pick up your book at Magic City Books during normal business hours. The last day for ticket holders to pick up Cloud Runner is December 3, 2026. We will make an effort to have signed books available for pick up but cannot guarantee a signed copy.

About Cloud Runner

Losing a child is one of the most unreconcilable griefs. In Cloud Runner, Joy Harjo reckons with the unspeakable pain of losing her daughter: “Reason has no home in this hour,” she writes. Despite a devasting loss, Harjo constructs a shrine to human resilience, reminding us that the most profound revelations can appear in our darkest hours: “I now know why we construct ceremonial epics of mystery and beauty, / Of enemy and failure: it is so we can pick up our burdens / And go on.”

Harjo’s magical poems are known for weaving myth, song, and spirit. In this searing volume, her poems become essential witnesses to history, especially in our current era of compounded loss: mass shootings, missing and murdered Native women, climate disaster, and political violence. Cloud Runner explores how all grief may be connected; it is a testament to poetry’s power to speak what is unspeakable, to touch what the mind cannot carry.

About the Author

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal.