And so it doesn’t necessarily become a self-conscious thing - it’s just there. “I think the culture is bringing me into it with poetry - that it’s part of me,” Harjo said in an interview with NPR’s Lynn Neary. Its title poem interpolates and salutes a famous Gwendolyn Brooks poem, according to NPR, but also imbues it with new meaning, about the persistence of Native people: Her new poetry collection called “An American Sunrise” will be published in August 2019. She has taught at UCLA and the University of Tennessee. She has also written a memoir - “Crazy Brave” delves into her father’s alcoholism, her abusive stepfather, teen motherhood, a failed first marriage and living in poverty before she found the “spirit of poetry” - and literature for children and young adults. Harjo is the author of eight books of poetry, including the American Book Award-winning “In Mad Love and War” (1990). every state in the union, small and large communities, for years on behalf of poetry - and the gift that poetry brings to all of us,” she told NPR. “Since I started writing in 1973, I’ve almost always been on the road with poetry, and meeting people and communities.

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