Voices for Truth: Joy Harjo

Schedule

Wed Nov 12 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Harriet Beecher Stowe House | Cincinnati, OH

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During Native American Heritage Month, we'll listen to prose and poetry from Joy Harjo, an important contemporary Native American author.
About this Event

Join an intimate discussion of literature in one of Cincinnati's most iconic literary destinations--the Harriet Beecher Stowe House. Carry forward its legacy of social change and be part of its future.

During Native American Heritage Month, we'll listen to the voice of truth in prose and poetry from an important contemporary Native American author: Joy Harjo, a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and three-term US Poet Laureate from 2019-2022.

Suggested Reading:

  • “They Placed the Map in Her Heart: A Poet Warrior’s Story” (2021)
  • “Fear Poem, or I Give You Back” (1975)
  • “Remember” (1983)
  • “Eagle Poem” (1990)
  • “Perhaps the World Ends Here” (1994)
  • "Map to the Next World” (2000)
  • “How to Write a Poem in Time of War” (2017)
  • “Granddaughters” (2019)
  • “An American Sunrise” (2017)
  • Bonus poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool” (1959)


About the Facilitators:

  • Dr. John Getz is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Xavier University and has been volunteering for the Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House for many years.
  • Emma Baldwin, citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and teacher at Azalea Montessori School.


About the series
Discussion Series Theme: Voices for Truth

We’ll study the writings of many authors from the 19th and 20th centuries to determine

  • how they discovered their voices,
  • the forms they chose for expressing their voices,
  • the needs both personal and societal to which they put those expressions,
  • the effects their work had,
  • how we can develop and enlist our own voices in service of our own values.

Harriet Beecher Stowe is our exemplar voice for truth. During her eighteen years in Cincinnati as a young adult (1832-1850), she discovered her voice as a writer, and in 1851, she decided to devote it to the anti-slavery cause. Horrified by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, she wrote to editor Gamaliel Bailey: "Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject [slavery], and I dreaded to expose even my own mind to the full force of its exciting power. But now I feel that the time has come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak."The result, of course, was Uncle Tom's Cabin, the blockbuster novel that awakened many Northerners to the horrors of slavery and helped create the change of heart that would allow the Union to stand firm when the South ceded over slavery.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe House, 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, United States

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