Joan Kane
Joan Naviyuk Kane | |
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 reading at Lannan Center, 2014 | |
| 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 the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2018.[2]
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 lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her 2 sons.
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[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]
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.
Play
- The Gilded Tusk, won the Anchorage Museum script contest [15]
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
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ Foundation, Poetry (2019-03-01). "Joan Kane". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
- ^ Foundation, Poetry (2019-03-01). "Joan Kane". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
- ^ "Past Grantmaking". Rasmuson Foundation. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- ^ http://www.ktva.com/ci_13671263
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-26. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://alaskaconservation.org/achievement-awards/award-winners/meet-2010-winners/
- ^ https://www.awpwriter.org/contests/awp_award_series_previous_winners/2012
- ^ http://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/individual/2013
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-01-22. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://sarweb.org/index.php?artist_joan_kane
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Joan Naviyuk Kane". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- ^ https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/joan-naviyuk-kane.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-15. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
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External links
- 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.
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