The NEA Big Read Amherst County Virginia
The NEA Big Read Amherst County Virginia
reading An American Sunrise
by Joy Harjo, United States Poet Laureate
(All events are open to the public free of charge.)
reading An American Sunrise
by Joy Harjo, United States Poet Laureate
(All events are open to the public free of charge.)
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Live Virtual Joy Harjo Keynote Lectures
Joy Harjo will read and speak about her book of poems,
An American Sunrise via Zoom (Q&A to follow) 4 pm Monday, March 14, 2022 Sweet Briar College 1948 Theatre (Get campus map at Gate House) In-person attendance limited to 75.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR IN PRSON LECTURE. Those wishing to watch lecture via ZOOM from home must register in advance. You may participate in the Q&A by writing a questions when you register Online. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ONLINE LECTURE. To inquire about handicap accessibility for in-person event, please call Lynn Kable at 434-989-3215. Joy Harjo will speak on Native American Poetry via Zoom (Q&A to follow)
7 pm Monday, March 14, 2022 Monacan Nation Community Center, 111 Highview, Madison Heights, VA Audience may watch Harjo from Tulsa either on ZOOM at the Monacan Center in-person or remotely, on ZOOM. Registration is not required for in-person guests but space is limited to 50. Those wishing to watch lecture via ZOOM from home must register in advance. You may participate in the Q&A by writing a questions when you register Online. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ONLINE LECTURE. Both programs by Joy Harjo will be videoed and loaded on AGAR’s YouTube channel from March 16, 2022, until April 8, 2022. 
Photo: © Shawn Miller
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is serving her second term as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. The author of nine books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise, several plays and children’s books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, her many honors include the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. As a musician and performer, Harjo has produced seven award-winning music albums including her newest, I Pray for My Enemies. She is 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. |
Kickoff Event: Karenne Wood, Virginia Poet, Mother, Monacan, Scholar and Historian 
Photo: Pat Jarrett, courtesy of Virginia Humanities
Panel Discussion and Accompanying Exhibits
2:30 pm Sunday, March 13, 2022Hamble Center, Amherst County Museum,154 South Main St., Amherst, VA 
Photo Courtesy Monacan Museum
Karenne Wood (1960-2019) was an enrolled member of the Monacan Nation. She is fondly remembered by family, colleagues and friends for her creativity, power, advocacy, scholarship and humor. Wood held a gubernatorial appointment as Chair of the Virginia Council on Indians for four years, and served on the Advisory Council for the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission during the 2007 quadrennial celebration of Virginia. She edited The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail (2007) and curated the exhibition Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Past and Present, at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. In 2008, Wood was named director of the Virginia Indian Heritage Program (later Virginia Indian Programs) at Virginia Humanities, a state humanities council in Charlottesville, Virginia. Wood was a published poet of two books, Weaving the Boundary and Markings on Earth. Her thesis was on the Monacan language, which is no longer spoken. The Karenne Wood program is presented by The Monacan Nation and the Monacan Nation Cultural Foundation (MINCF), Amherst Glebe Arts Response (AGAR) and the Amherst Museum and Historical Society (ACMHS) with generous support from Virginia Humanities and NEA Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. |
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The NEA BIG READ is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts
in partnership with Arts Midwest.
in partnership with Arts Midwest.
The NEA Big Read Amherst County Virginia is presented by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc.and Community Partners: Amherst County Museum and Historical Society, Amherst County Public Library and Public Schools, Amherst Woman’s Club, Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living, Central Virginia Community College, Monacan Nation Cultural Foundation and the Monacan Tribe, and Sweet Briar College.
