"Being the first Native poet laureate, it did show us as human beings. My Living Nations, Living Words project was to show that I was not the only Native poet—that there are many of us... I picked a map that deliberately had no borders or words—it’s just a map of water and earth. The Native poets picked their poems and where they were placed—some were far from their homelands, others were right on their homelands." Explore joyharjoforreal's Map of First Peoples Poetry on the libraryofcongress website. #NativeAmericanHeritageDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #JoyHarjo #PoetryLovers