Award-winning poet, musician, and performer Joy Harjo will present “Indigenous Poetry and Native Literature” at Boston College on February 21 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Harjo was the first Native American to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, a post she held from 2019 to 2022. She is the author of 10 books of poetry, including the acclaimed Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light. She is also the author of two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior. She served as exec­u­tive edi­tor of the anthol­o­gy When the Light of the World was Sub­dued, Our Songs Came Through — A Nor­ton Anthol­o­gy of Native Nations Poet­ry and the editor of Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry, the companion to her signature Poet Laureate project. Her many honors include the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, the Jackson Prize from Poets & Writers, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Harjo’s appearance is presented by the BC Lowell Humanities Series and co-sponsored by the BC Poetry Days Series, American Studies Program, English Department, Creative Writing Discretionary Fund, and the Boston College Forum on Racial Justice in America. Reserve free seating here.