An Evening with Joy Harjo: Storytelling, Culture, and the Environment
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The Leopold Writing Program is thrilled to announce our 7th Annual Leopold Lecture:
An Evening with Joy Harjo: Storytelling, Culture, and the Environment
Saturday, 26 September 2026 | 6:00pm
The KiMo Theatre
TICKETS ARE LIVE!
Purchase tickets at https://artsandculture.cabq.gov/15369/15370
Join the Leopold Writing Program for “An Evening with Joy Harjo: Storytelling, Culture, and the Environment.” Through readings from her books and spoken stories, Joy Harjo explores the deep connections between people, culture, and the natural world. Rooted in Indigenous traditions, her storytelling reflects how land, memory, and community are intertwined, inviting us to consider our shared relationship with the Earth.
Joy Harjo, the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate and member of the Muscogee Nation, is the author of numerous books of poetry, several plays, children’s books, two memoirs, and seven music albums. Her honors include Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She is a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is currently the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she lives.
An Evening with Joy Harjo: Storytelling, Culture, and the Environment
Saturday, 26 September 2026 | 6:00pm
The KiMo Theatre
TICKETS ARE LIVE!
Purchase tickets at https://artsandculture.cabq.gov/15369/15370
Join the Leopold Writing Program for “An Evening with Joy Harjo: Storytelling, Culture, and the Environment.” Through readings from her books and spoken stories, Joy Harjo explores the deep connections between people, culture, and the natural world. Rooted in Indigenous traditions, her storytelling reflects how land, memory, and community are intertwined, inviting us to consider our shared relationship with the Earth.
Joy Harjo, the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate and member of the Muscogee Nation, is the author of numerous books of poetry, several plays, children’s books, two memoirs, and seven music albums. Her honors include Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She is a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is currently the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she lives.
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KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave, Albuquerque, NM 87102-3219, United States
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