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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
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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. She was also a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. Kane was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.
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Life
Joan Kane is Inupiaq, and has 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.
She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her 2 children.
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
- 2009 Whiting Award
- 2009 National Native Creative Development Program Longhouse Education and Cultural Center Grantee
- 2010 Alaska Native Writers on the Environment Award
- 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry from AWP
- 2013 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship
- 2013 Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellowship
- 2014 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at School for Advanced Research
- 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
- 2019 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Fellowship
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
- 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
Play
- The Gilded Tusk, won the Anchorage Museum script contest
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
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