Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Joy Harjo studied at the University of New Mexico and received an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her rich multicultural lineage–Harjo’s mother was part Cherokee, French, and ...
A self-confessed “unashamed woman poet,” Alicia Ostriker writes about sex, war, pregnancy, mastectomy, rape, and religion, expertly intertwining the personal with the political, leading readers to ask ...