Poet Joy Harjo — a member of the Muskogee Creek Nation — has become the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate.

"You hit words together with rhythm and sound quality and fierce playfulness," she says, calling her poetry a kind of music. https://t.co/Xi0jmbVxx1 pic.twitter.com/VPo6ZjQYCH

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