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American poet
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
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
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
"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
The Gilded Tusk, won the Anchorage Museum script contest
[17]
In Anthology
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
References
External links