Joan Kane
Joan Naviyuk Kane | |
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Born | Joan Marie Kane |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvard College; Columbia University |
Genre | Poet, novelist |
Joan Naviyuk Kane is an Inupiaq American poet. In 2014, Kane was the Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at the School for Advanced Research.[1] She was also a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. Kane was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.[2] She has faculty appointments in the English departments of Harvard College, Tufts University, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and most recently, Reed College.
Life
[edit]Joan Kane is Inupiaq, and has family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska.[3] She graduated from Harvard College with a BA and earned an M.F.A from Columbia University.[4]
She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her 2 children. As of 2023, Kane serves as the Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.[5]
Awards
[edit]- 2004 John Haines Award from Ice Floe Press
- 2006 Walt Whitman Award semi-finalist by the Academy of American Poets
- 2007 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award[6]
- 2009 Whiting Award[7]
- 2009 National Native Creative Development Program Longhouse Education and Cultural Center Grantee [8]
- 2010 Alaska Native Writers on the Environment Award [9]
- 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry from AWP[10]
- 2013 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship [11]
- 2013 Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellowship[12]
- 2014 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at School for Advanced Research[13]
- 2014 American Book Award for Hyperboreal
- 2016 Tuttle Creative Residency.
- 2016 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award.
- 2016 Aninstantia Foundation Artist Award.
- 2017 Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship.
- 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship[14]
- 2019 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Fellowship[15]
- 2023 Paul Engle Prize[16]
Works
[edit]- "Insomnia at North", AGNI, 3/2006
- Due North, Columbia University, 2006
- Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, NorthShore Press, 2009, ISBN 9780979436529; University of Alaska Press, 2012, ISBN 9781602231573
- Hyperboreal. University of Pittsburgh Press. 21 October 2013. ISBN 978-0-8229-7914-2.
- Milk Black Carbon. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0-8229-6451-3
- The Straits. Voices from the American Land, 2015. V.4, Issue 2
- A Few Lines in the Manifest. Albion Books. 14 May 2018.
- Sublingual. Finishing Line Press. 2 November 2018. ISBN 978-163534769-2
- Another Bright Departure. CutBank Books. March 2019. ISBN 978-1-9397-1730-6.
- Dark Traffic. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2021. ISBN 978-0-8229-6662-3
- Ex Machina, Staircase Books. 7 June 2023. ISBN 9781960769008
Play
[edit]- The Gilded Tusk, won the Anchorage Museum script contest [17]
In Anthology
[edit]- Best American Poetry, Simon & Schuster, 2015.
- Monticello in Mind, University of Virginia Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0813938509
- Read America(s). Locked Horns Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0990359920
- Syncretism and Survival, Forums on Poetics. Locked Horns Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0990359937
- Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2018.ISBN 9780820353159
- The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice. 2018. Pleiades Press. ISBN 978-0-9970994-1-6
See also
[edit]- Joan Naviyuk Kane on Wikiquote - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joan_Naviyuk_Kane
References
[edit]- ^ "Lines from the north: Poet and novelist Joan Naviyuk Kane". The New Mexican. February 13, 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Joan Naviyuk Kane". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- ^ "Joan Kane". Poetry Foundation. 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
- ^ "Joan Kane". Poetry Foundation. 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
- ^ "Joan Naviyuk Kane". Reed College Faculty Profiles. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Past Grantmaking". Rasmuson Foundation. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- ^ http://www.ktva.com/ci_13671263 [dead link]
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-26. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Meet the 2010 Winners | Alaska Conservation Foundation". alaskaconservation.org. Archived from the original on 2011-03-25.
- ^ "AWP: Award Series Winners".
- ^ "2013 NACF Artist Fellowships | Native Arts and Cultures Foundation". www.nativeartsandcultures.org. Archived from the original on 2014-04-15.
- ^ "Rasmuson Foundation Press Release - Rofkar named Distinguished Artist". Archived from the original on 2014-01-22. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
- ^ "The School for Advanced Research".
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Joan Naviyuk Kane". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- ^ "Joan Naviyuk Kane".
- ^ "PAUL ENGLE DAY AND PRIZE". Iowa City of Literature. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Green Room : 2 short plays turn history into 'Gold' at Anchorage Museum | adn.com". Archived from the original on 2009-07-15. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
External links
[edit]- Author's Website
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- The Cormorant Hunters Wife website
- Dana Jennings (November 14, 2013). "Poems Against Loss: Joan Naviyuk Kane Talks About 'Hyperboreal'". The New York Times.
- NPR Staff (June 21, 2013). "Ghost Island Looms Large Among Displaced Inupiat Eskimos". NPR.
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- Harvard College alumni
- Inupiat people
- Inuit poets
- Alaska Native women
- American Inuit women
- Living people
- Native American poets
- Writers from Anchorage, Alaska
- American women poets
- 21st-century American poets
- American Book Award winners
- Native American women writers
- 21st-century American women
- 21st-century Native American women
- Native American women poets