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Joan Naviyuk Kane | |
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Kane reading at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University, in 2014 | |
| Born | Joan Marie Kane |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard College; Columbia University |
| Genre | Poet, novelist |
| Website | |
| thejoankane.com | |
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, having family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. She graduated from Harvard College with a BA and earned an M.F.A from Columbia University.[3]
She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her two children. As of 2023[update], Kane serves as the Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.[4]
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[5]
- 2009: Whiting Award[6]
- 2009: National Native Creative Development Program Longhouse Education and Cultural Center Grantee[7]
- 2010: Alaska Native Writers on the Environment Award[8]
- 2012: Donald Hall Prize in Poetry from AWP[9]
- 2013: Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship[10]
- 2013: Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellowship[11]
- 2014: Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at School for Advanced Research[12]
- 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[13]
- 2019: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Fellowship[14]
- 2023: Paul Engle Prize[15]
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. October 21, 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
- Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic. Wesleyann University Press. 2024. ISBN 9780819501882
- with snow pouring southward past the window. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2026. ISBN 9780822967668.
Play
[edit]- The Gilded Tusk, won the Anchorage Museum script contest [16]
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. Archived from the original on December 10, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
- ↑ "Meet our Fellows - Guggenheim Foundation". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on October 13, 2025. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
- ↑ "Joan Kane". Poetry Foundation. March 1, 2019. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ↑ "Joan Naviyuk Kane". Reed College Faculty Profiles. Archived from the original on January 29, 2024. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
- ↑ "Past Grantmaking". Rasmuson Foundation. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
- ↑ "Inupiaq poet wins Whiting Award". Anchorage Daily News. October 29, 2009. Retrieved October 9, 2025.
- ↑ "National Native Creative Development Program Longhouse Education and Cultural Center Grantees for Funding Year 2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ "Meet the 2010 Winners | Alaska Conservation Foundation". alaskaconservation.org. Archived from the original on March 25, 2011.
- ↑ "Winners of the 2012 AWP Award Series". Archived from the original on October 1, 2013.
- ↑ "2013 NACF Artist Fellowships | Native Arts and Cultures Foundation". www.nativeartsandcultures.org. Archived from the original on April 15, 2014.
- ↑ "Rasmuson Foundation Press Release - Rofkar named Distinguished Artist". www.rasmuson.org. Archived from the original on January 22, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ "The School for Advanced Research". sarweb.org. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Joan Naviyuk Kane". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on June 13, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
- ↑ "Joan Naviyuk Kane". www.radcliffe.harvard.edu.
- ↑ "PAUL ENGLE DAY AND PRIZE". Iowa City of Literature. Archived from the original on January 28, 2024. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
- ↑ "Green Room : 2 short plays turn history into 'Gold' at Anchorage Museum | adn.com". Archived from the original on July 15, 2009. Retrieved October 31, 2009.
External links
[edit]- Kane's Website
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- The Cormorant Hunter's 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.
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