Joy Harjo's Poetic Adventures in the Last World Blog

This is Joy Harjo's ongoing journal of dreams, stories, poems,music, photographs, and assorted reports from her inner and outer travels about Indian country and the rest of the world .

11/22/06

Murphy's Mule Barn, Posing, and a Chandelier

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Twenty minutes before I leave for Murphy's Mule Barn for breakfast. They have excellent and cheap breakfasts. Good chile. Another "...
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11/16/06

Gallup Performance Tonight!!! And a note to blog subscribers or those who have sent me notes via the blog or website--

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I'm getting ready to head to Gallup for a performance tonight at UNM-Gallup Branch, with my daughter Rainy Dawn Ortiz. The performance w...
11/12/06

Surrender rewrite

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SURRENDER We wound circles to Pink Floyd and powwow, and skidded when the music Stopped for musical chairs, beneath balloons in honor of bab...
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How Dreams Become Manifest, or Vice Versa

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From a six a.m. journal this morning: I dream I need to pee. I need to pee badly. I look for a toilet. There is one. It is occupied. I am ne...
11/11/06

The Art of Yellow

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Saturday night. Train whistle. Leaves tracked in the house. I leave them alone because they represent joy even as they represent leaving. I ...
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11/9/06

Report from Onondaga Nation

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I wake up in another realm: the Sheraton in the city of Syracuse, in the Onondaga Nation. I decompress with a shower, with water. This morni...
11/8/06

Packing for Syracuse

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I'm on my way to Syracuse in a few hours. Packing doesn't become easier. And reality becomes more complex when you open the doors. T...
11/2/06

We Were There When Jazz Was Invented

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Last week I spoke to students at Santa Fe Indian School on Jim Pepper, the quintessential native jazz saxophonist. Only a few people in the ...
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On the Road to the Sequoyah Research Center in Little Rock, Arkansas

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Met some new talent at the Southwest Symposium in Little Rock, Arkansas. Elgin Jumper is a Seminole poet from Hollywood, Florida. His new bo...
11/1/06

The Oklahoma Centennial is Coming, Whether We Like It Or Not

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History is repeated every time it is ignored or falsely told or reported. Oklahoma is gearing up to celebrate the centennial, the centennial...
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