Waterfront Yoga, Indigenous Poetry, and a Show Memorializing George Floyd: Things to Do in DC, May 24-26
Plus: How and when DC-area theaters are reopening.
Tuesday marks one year since the murder of George Floyd.
Here’s what you should check out this week:
Lyrical lessons: Current US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo the first indigenous writer to receive that honor curated the recently published
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry. Verses from major indigenous voices including pro-basketball player-turned-poet Natalie Diaz, novelist Ray Young Bear, and activist Layli Long Soldier meditate on displacement, resistance, perseverance, and cultural preservation. Harjo will speak with authors Deborah A. Miranda and Eric Gansworth in a virtual book event from Politics and Prose. Monday 5/24 at 8 PM; register here.
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Poetry and heritage are alive and intertwined in
Joy Harjo’s signature project as America’s first Native Poet Laureate.
Living Nations, Living Words is an interactive map and accompanying anthology of Native Nations poets and poems from across the country, speaking to themes of displacement, visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Join Harjo and award-winning poet
Layli Long Soldier for a conversation about the cadence, topography, and lineage of poetry.
This program is free to all with registration. Registered guests will receive the link to watch via email in advance of the premiere.
The conversation will be pre-recorded and premiere on YouTube on
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U.S. Poet Joy Harjo: ‘There’s a Poem Out There That Can Change Your Life’
After a year of pandemic and racial tension, U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo finds comfort and lessons in poetry.
“Those moments that are the most terrifying, empowering, grief-filled, joy-filled, they are always accompanied by poetry,” Harjo said in an interview with the Library of Congress, where she is serving her third term as poet laureate. “There’s always a poem out there that can change your life.”