* we'll start with some thinking about the question "Where and when does American history begin?"
* read the first stanza of Joy Harjo's "Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings" (yes, #poetry on the second day of class -- I'm committed!)
* Discuss the Ben Franklin's World "World of the Wampanoag Part I" episode, and use that to pivot toward exploring indigenous diversity and history in North America pre-1492
* Talk briefly about some of the ways Americans, at different moments throughout the history we'll be covering this semester, have imagined early American history and the place of indigenous peoples and cultures

Adding #JoyHarjo to this session is new but everything else I've done a few times now and have received good comments from students about this session.

Friday's poetry book of the day is:
#joyharjo #StephenStrom #poetry #poetryreader

Granddaughters

I was a thought, a dream, a fish, a wing,
And then a human being
When I emerged from my mother's river
On my father's boat of potent fever
I carried a sack of dreams from a starlit dwelling
To be opened when I begin bleeding
There's a red dress, deerskin moccasins
The taste of berries made of promises
While the memories shift in their skins
At every moon, to do their ripening
--Joy Harjo

#TodaysPoem #FridayPoem #poetry #JoyHarjo @bookstodon

(Art credit: Jen Amaya)

@vecrumba IDK, but your Milton quote made me think of this #JoyHarjo #poem that my son introduced me to yesterday. I like it.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51640/my-house-is-the-red-earth

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime

Joy Harjo:
🎵 One Day There Will Be Horses

#JoyHarjo

https://open.spotify.com/track/6gGes2WLabmiU1EXl0PoRs

"All poets / understand the final uselessness of words."

BIRD, by Joy Harjo

https://poems.com/poem/bird-2/?utm_source=PD+General+Email+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=857737f4ce-PD_NL_DONALD_REVELL_2020_03_31_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b494a3846d-857737f4ce-58001883#featured-poet #Muscogee #Creek #PoetLaureate #Poetry #Poem #PoetryCommunity #PoetryIsNotDead #PoetryDaily #NativeArts #JoyHarjo #Bird

Just found out #JoyHarjo is speaking at #sxswedu .... So I'm going! Who else is coming?

“Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their
tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,
listen to them. They are alive poems.”
—Joy Harjo

A poem that reads as both invocation and prayer. “Remember.” https://emergencemagazine.org/poem/remember/ #JoyHarjo #poem

Kindness, faith, beauty …these things endure. To whom are we speaking when we pray? Ourselves? The Divine? Something we can’t define?

Eagle Poem, Joy Harjo

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46545/eagle-poem

This is another poem that is longer than a single screenshot; I’ve pasted it in its entirety via ALT text in the first image.

#poetry #Indigenous #JoyHarjo #beauty #kindness #faith #CreekNation #poem #Eagle #GoodNightAll

#ForKeeps #JoyHarjo #poems #love #poetry #lovepoetry #earth #ancestory

#ForKeeps #JoyHarjo #poems #love #poetry #lovepoetry #earth #ancestory