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Joy Harjo has been appointed as the United State's new poet laureate - the first Native American to hold the position.

Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation She is known for such works as 'The Woman Who Fell From the Sky' and 'In Mad Love and War

Joy Harjo spoke to Newsday's Bola Mosuro about her new position and shares the poem 'I Give You Back' which she credits with helping to save her life.

(Photo: Joy Harjo. Credit: Shawn Miller, Library of Congress)