Presently, Joy Harjo is serving the third term of her three terms as the United States Poet Laureate, making her the second Poet Laureate to serve three terms, and the first native American poet laureate.        Her signature project, "Living Nations, Living Worlds," launched last November and features an interactive ArcGIS Story Map that maps 47 contemporary Native American poets from across the country. It's just one of the many ways that Harjo continues to honor and build upon a legacy of art as activism, the collective as resistance.  Harjo has long understood the importance of a name.  Born as Joy Foster in 1951, she claimed her new name, "Harjo," when she officially became a member of the Muscogee (creek) Nation.  She explained that the name, which honors her grandmother, means "So brave you're crazy," and it is a constant reminder for her to keep doing the work to undo the historic trauma that haunts her family and her people.  She rekindled her love for music two decades into her literary career at the age of 40, forming the band Poetic Justice, for which she sings and plays the flute and saxophone.  The sound is an amalgamation of the various identities and interests, blending indigenous music with funk and jazz. She has six albums out.          Much of her work is autobiographical, and as an activist, she often delves into the political too, highlighting the need for a preservation of the native heritage amid an ever-changing modern landscape, a pushback against colonialism.  At 16, the Tulsa Oklahoma native enrolled at the Institute of American Indian Arts, which was at that time a boarding school in Sante Fe, New Mexica.  For college, she attended the University of New Mexico and initially enrolled as a pre-med student before switching her  major to art.  Then in her final year, Harjo switched her focus one more time, to creative writing.  Her love for writing drove her to apply for a spot at the revered Iowa Writer's Workshop.  She was accepted, and graduated with an MFA in 1978.  She would go on to teach at four Universities and at the Institute of American Indian Arts, establishing herself as a dynamic instructor and a lover of stories and histories.