Part of the Lions in Winter festival sponsored by the EIU Department of English Co-sponsored by Broward County Library, Broward Public Library Foundation, Inc., and Florida Center for the Book. Free and open to the public.
Join Joy Harjo, a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation and current U.S. poet laureate, in a virtual conversation, as she reads works from her latest book An American Sunrise: Poems and has a moderated Q+A discussion.
In 2019, Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to
hold the position. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harjo is an internationally known award-winning poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.