An American Sunrise
Joy Harjo

An American Sunrise | Various Sources | Links to watch/listen to poems online
If the video links to a longer video, we’ve set the link to start at the beginning of the poem. Harjo almost always sets up the poems she reads with background information, and so you may find it helpful to start the video 3-5 minutes before the poem actually begins. If you’re looking for intertextuality connections, Harjo’s setup to each poem she reads is the place to start.

Prologue, Map of the Trail of Tears, Break My Heart, My grandfather Monahwee, Exile of Memory, Granddaughters, The Fight, Directions to You, Seven Generations, In 1990 a congress, Weapons,, The Story Wheel, Once I looked at the moon, Washing My Mother’s Body, There is a map, Rising and Falling, The Road to Disappearance, Mama and Papa Have the Going Home Shiprock Blues, My great-grandfather Monahwee, How to Write a Poem in a Time of War (another reading), Mvskoke Mourning Song, First Morning, Singing Everything, Falling from the Night Sky, Our knowledge is based, For Earth’s Grandsons, Running (another reading), A Refuge in the Smallest of Places (another reading), I’m Nobody! Who are You?, Bourbon and Blues, My Great-Aunt Ella Monahwee Jacob’s Testimony, Road, The Southeast was covered, Desire’s Dog, Dawning, Honoring, My Man’s Feet (another reading), “I Wonder What You Are Thinking,” For Those Who Would Govern, Rabbit Invents the Saxophone, When Adolfe Sax patented, Let There Be No Regrets, Advice for Countries, Advanced, Developing, and Falling, Tobacco Origin Story, My aunt Lois Harjo told me, Redbird Love, We follow the DNA spiral of stories, Becoming Seventy, Beyond, Ren-Toh-Pvrv, Memory Sack, Every night, Cehotosakvtes, One March, By the Way, When we made it down last year, Welcoming Song, An American Sunrise (another reading)(a third reading), Bless This Land.