Joan Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane
Kane reading at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University, in 2014
Kane reading at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University, in 2014
BornJoan Marie Kane
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard College;
Columbia University
GenrePoet, 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

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

  1. ^ "Lines from the north: Poet and novelist Joan Naviyuk Kane". The New Mexican. February 13, 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  2. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Joan Naviyuk Kane". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  3. ^ "Joan Kane". Poetry Foundation. 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  4. ^ "Joan Kane". Poetry Foundation. 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  5. ^ "Joan Naviyuk Kane". Reed College Faculty Profiles. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Past Grantmaking". Rasmuson Foundation. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  7. ^ http://www.ktva.com/ci_13671263 [dead link‍]
  8. ^ "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)
  9. ^ "Meet the 2010 Winners | Alaska Conservation Foundation". alaskaconservation.org. Archived from the original on 2011-03-25.
  10. ^ "AWP: Award Series Winners".
  11. ^ "2013 NACF Artist Fellowships | Native Arts and Cultures Foundation". www.nativeartsandcultures.org. Archived from the original on 2014-04-15.
  12. ^ "Rasmuson Foundation Press Release - Rofkar named Distinguished Artist". Archived from the original on 2014-01-22. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  13. ^ "The School for Advanced Research".
  14. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Joan Naviyuk Kane". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  15. ^ "Joan Naviyuk Kane".
  16. ^ "PAUL ENGLE DAY AND PRIZE". Iowa City of Literature. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  17. ^ "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.