Congratulations goes out to Joy Harjo who has just won the Wallace Stevens award from the Academy of American Poets for ‘proven mastery’ as a poet. The award comes with a $100,000 prize for lifetime achievement. Read The Guardian’s story about the award here.

Part of that life time achievement was a visit to HoCoPoLitSo in 2008 when she read and performed music to an audience at the Howard County Conservancy during an afternoon event entitled “Poetry by Nature, A Family Affair.”

During the visit to Howard County, Ms. Harjo recorded the following episode of The Writing Life: