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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 20 June 2019
Joy Harjo is first Native American named US poet laureate

NEW YORK (AP) — Joy Harjo, Oklahoma. "This country is
the first Native American in need of deep healing.
to be named U.S. poet We're in a transformational
laureate, has been ready moment in national history
for a long time. and earth history, so
"I've been an unofficial whichever way we move is
poetry ambassador — on going to absolutely define
the road for poetry for us."
years," the 68-year-old Harjo She is known for such
wrote in a recent email to collections as "The Woman
The Associated Press. "I've Who Fell From the Sky" and
often been the only poet "In Mad Love and War"
or Native poet-person that and for a forceful, intimate
many have seen/met/ style that draws upon
heard. I've introduced the natural and spiritual
many poetry audiences world. Her previous honors
to Native poetry and include the PEN Open Book
audiences not expecting Award and the Wallace
poetry to be poetry." Stevens Award for lifetime
Her appointment was achievement. Earlier this
announced Wednesday year, she was awarded
by Librarian of Congress the Jackson Prize, given by
Carla Hayden, who said Poets & Writers, for a poet
in a statement that Harjo of merit who deserves more
helped tell an "American In this June 6, 2019 photo, Joy Harjo, of the United States, poses inside the Library of Congress, in attention.
story" of traditions both Washington. Harjo is currently editing an
lost and maintained, of Associated Press anthology of Native poets,
"reckoning and myth- and a new book of her
making." Harjo's term is in Poetry," with a $35,000 communities around the nations to the forefront and own poems, "An American
for one year and she stipend. Harjo will have country. include it in the discussion Sunrise," comes out in
succeeds Tracy K. Smith, few specific responsibilities, "I don't have a defined of poetry," says Harjo, an August (her publisher, W.W.
who served two terms. The but other laureates have project right now, but I want enrolled member of the Norton, moved it up from
position is officially called launched initiatives, most to bring the contribution Muscogee Creek Nation its planned September
"Poet Laureate Consultant recently Smith's tour of rural of poetry of the tribal and a native of Tulsa, release). q

Styles get romantic in Paris menswear with verdant blooms

By THOMAS ADAMSON Gustav Klimt.
PARIS (AP) — The renewed RIHANNA'S FENTY
interest in brand Off-White Fenty, the new fashion
continued this season at house of popstar-turned-
Paris Fashion Week, after its designer Rihanna, is rolling
founder and designer Virgil out its clothes online on a
Abloh last year became See-Now-Buy-Now basis
the first African-American to coincide with fashion
to head a major European week.
fashion house, at Louis Vuit- It's an open question
ton menswear. whether this kind of business
For his Wednesday show in model will garner the same
Paris' Le Marais area, Abloh attention as a convention-
sent spring wafting into the al catwalk show, but Rihan-
air. na's personal celebrity is ex-
Here are some highlights of pected to bridge that gap.
men's spring-summer 2020 Rihanna is marking the re-
runway shows. lease of the online collec-
OFF-WHITE GOES ROMAN- tion entitled "Release 6-19"
TIC with special pop-up in The
A verdant grass field daz- Webster in New York run-
zling with thousands of ning Wednesday until the
planted wild white flowers end of June.
met guests in the 19th cen- Model Gigi Hadid, centre, wears a creation for the Off White mens Spring-Summer 2020 fashion Previews of the garments
tury former market hall the collection presented in Paris, Wednesday, June 19. were sent by the LVMH-
Carreau du Temple with Associated Press owned house to media
decorative forged iron pil- and featured color-rich,
lars. ban Off-White aesthetic in combat pants that twinned torso, and its long A-line sportswear-infused dresses
The romantic theme in- a slightly more dreamy di- the garment below were evoked the shapes of a with ruched detailing.
troduced by the decor rection. given a soft touch with 19th-century dandy coat. Oversize printed T-shirts that
seemed to influence the A crop-sleeved sweater speckles of white paint. The piece de resistance? A championed the Barba-
menswear styles them- evoked a gentleness with A sheer white anorak in giant arty patchwork scarf dos-born singer's immigrant
selves in a collection that its multicolor knit and boxy loose, lightweight material that evoked the work of story were also a center-
shifted the usual hard, ur- shape, while the black seemed to float down the Austrian symbolist painter piece of the collection.q