Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation and the 23rd poet laureate of the United States, regularly tackles tough topics.  In a recent interview with Joe Heim of The Washington Post, Harjo addresses the ongoing treatment of people from Central and South America in our country and the importance of having trusted leaders.

If you are teaching any of Harjo's poetry, Walter Russell Mead's "America's New Tiger Immigrants" in Conversations in American Literature, Frida Kahlo's Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States," or any other texts with relevant themes, consider sharing Harjo's interview with your students:  ‘Everyone wants a place where they feel safe,’ says Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. poet laureate