'I Release You, Fear'

Cheryl Strayed talks with the poet Joy Harjo about beauty, prophecies and listening to your spiritual council. Joy tells the story of being named the 23rd poet laureate of the United States, and opens up about leaving home to attend a Bureau of Indian Education boarding school in the 1960s. "For the first time, I was in a circle of relatives,” Joy says, “a circle of other students like me who were natives, who had been through a lot of the same stories.”

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'I Release You, Fear' is an episode from Sugar Calling by The New York Times.

This episode is 00:34:47 long.

This episode was published on May 20, 2020.

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