President Joe Biden presented trailblazing Tulsan and Native American poet, performer and writer Joy Harjo with the National Humanities Medal at a ceremony Monday. The first Native American and first ...

Native American poet, author and visual artist N. Scott Momaday (L) accepts the National Medal of Arts from President George W. Bush in 2007. File Photo by Michael Stewart/Wikimedia Commons Jan. 29 ...

Denise Lajimodiere, an author and retired university professor, hopes she can be a mentor to young writers from underrepresented communities in North Dakota. Denise Lajimodiere, an author and member ...

The United States has its first Native American poet laureate. This week, the Library of Congress awarded that honor to Joy Harjo. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation.

Jack Gladstone, a Montana Blackfeet poet, singer and songwriter who in 2011 won the highest award possible in the world of Native American music, will perform and discuss his music on Friday, April 20 ...

Poet and author Joy Harjo has been named as the United States' 23rd poet laureate. Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, will be the first Native American poet to hold the honor. "Joy Harjo ...

Hometown: The Viejas Indian Reservation. Now Lives: In a four-bedroom apartment in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn that he shares with three roommates. Claim to Fame: In 2016, Pico released his first ...

Poet, writer and musician Joy Harjo — a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation — often draws on Native American stories, languages and myths. But she says that she's not self-consciously trying to bring ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Native American author, poet and visual artist N. Scott Momaday, whose novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, has died, his daughter said Monday. He ...

Poet and author Joy Harjo has been named the United States’ 23rd poet laureate -- and is the first Native American to receive the honor. Harjo's term was announced Wednesday by Librarian of Congress ...