Joy Harjo
Aug 23, 2019
2 minutes
—OLIVIA B. WAXMAN
I didn’t set out to be a writer. I was shy, quiet, and I loved art because I didn’t have to speak with anyone. At one point, my spirit said, “You have to learn how to speak.” I think poetry came to me because there was a lot of change. In 1973, I was 23, a mother of two
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