WRITE ON IS PROUD TO HOST AN OFFICIAL JOY HARJO WATCH PARTY AT OUR CENTER!

A SPECIAL EVENT EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITE ON MEMBERS!

Join us and other members for an in-person social hour followed by a watch party with the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters as they bring Joy Harjo to Wisconsin for two signature speaking events, including tonight’s performance in Madison. Through poetry and conversation, Joy Harjo will illuminate the layered meanings of home, drawing on the themes of land, memory, ancestry, displacement and healing. Join us at the center for food, drink, and community!

An internationally acclaimed performer and write of the Muscogee Nation and the first Native American poet to serve as the United States Poet Laureate (2019-2022), Joy Harjo is the author of eleven books of poetry, several plays, two memoirs, as well as children’s books and other works of nonfiction. Her many honors include the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her twelfth book of poetry,  Cloud Runner, will be published by W.W. Norton in Fall of 2026. Harjo holds the Ruth Yellowhawk Fellowship fom the Kettering Foundation and is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Finding Home programs explore how people respond with creativity, stewardship, and resilience. Finding Home brings people with different perspectives together to deepen understanding and identify shared values to build common ground. Through public programs, exhibitions, workshops, publications, and local partnerships, Finding Home invites reflection and participation. All events are open to the public, with hybrid and virtual options available.