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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/b960b42e-cb68-4d48-abff-2666d0171987_hq.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Meet America's First Native Poet Laureate' data-article-id='3925'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='13625'>Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be named U.S. poet laureate, has been ready for such a responsibility for a long time.</span> <span data-start-time='13625' data-end-time='26125'>“I’ve been an unofficial poetry ambassador, on the road for poetry for years,” Harjo wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.</span> <span data-start-time='26125' data-end-time='34667'>“I’ve often been the only poet or Native poet-person that many have seen, met, heard.”</span> <span data-start-time='34667' data-end-time='41750'>The Library of Congress announced Harjo’s appointment to the position on Wednesday.</span> <span data-start-time='41750' data-end-time='53875'>Librarian Carla Hayden said in a statement that Harjo helped tell an “American story” of traditions both lost and kept.</span> <span data-start-time='53875' data-end-time='57625'>Harjo’s term is for one year.</span> <span data-start-time='57625' data-end-time='65333'>She follows Tracy K. Smith, who served as the nation's poet laureate for two terms.</span> <span data-start-time='65333' data-end-time='78042'>The laureate receives $35,000 to carry out special projects meant to spread appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry.</span> <span data-start-time='78042' data-end-time='86271'>Harjo said she does not yet have defined plans for her year as the country’s official poet.</span> <span data-start-time='86271' data-end-time='99292'>But she said she wants to “bring the contribution of poetry of the tribal nations to the forefront and include it in the discussion of poetry.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/B8B6D5F7-B610-4FC4-A8E0-7694F9172B37_cx5_cy4_cw91_w1023_r1_s.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=13117 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/what_is_a_poet_laureate.wav'>What is a poet laureate?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='a poet who is honored by being chosen for an official position by a ruler or government'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/a_heavy_and_intense_snowstorm.wav'><span>a heavy and intense snowstorm</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/a_breed_of_cat.wav'><span>a breed of cat</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/a_type_of_exercise.wav'><span>a type of exercise</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/a_poet_who_is_honored_by_being_chosen_for_an_official_position_by_a_ruler_or_government.wav'><span>a poet who is honored by being chosen for an official position by a ruler or government</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=13118 data-hint-location='53875' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/harjos_term_is_for_one_what.wav'>Harjos term is for one what?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='year'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/year.wav'><span>year</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/month.wav'><span>month</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/day.wav'><span>day</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/decade.wav'><span>decade</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=13119 data-hint-location='78042' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/harjo_said_she_does_not_yet_have_defined_plans_for_her_year_as_the_countrys_official__blank_.wav'>Harjo said she does not yet have defined plans for her year as the countrys official <span class='blank'>poet</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='poet'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/scientist.wav'><span>scientist</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/poet.wav'><span>poet</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/president.wav'><span>president</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3412/mayor.wav'><span>mayor</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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