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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 |
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Joan Naviyuk Kane is an Inupiaq American poet. She writes beautiful poems. In 2014, she was a special writer at the School for Advanced Research. She also helped choose winners for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. Joan Kane received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. She has taught English at famous universities like Harvard College and Reed College.
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About Joan Kane
Joan Kane is Inupiaq. Her family comes from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. She studied at Harvard College and then at Columbia University. She earned a special degree in writing.
She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her two children. As of 2023, Joan Kane is a visiting professor at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She teaches creative writing there.
Awards and Honors
Joan Kane has won many awards for her writing. These awards show how talented she is as a poet. Here are some of the honors she has received:
- 2004 John Haines Award
- 2007 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award
- 2009 Whiting Award
- 2010 Alaska Native Writers on the Environment Award
- 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry
- 2013 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship
- 2014 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at School for Advanced Research
- 2014 American Book Award for her book Hyperboreal
- 2016 Tuttle Creative Residency
- 2016 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award
- 2017 Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship
- 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
- 2019 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Fellowship
- 2023 Paul Engle Prize
Her Published Works
Joan Kane has written many books of poetry. Her poems often explore her heritage and the Arctic.
Poetry Books
- Due North, 2006
- Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, 2009
- Milk Black Carbon, 2017
- The Straits, 2015
- A Few Lines in the Manifest, 2018
- Sublingual, 2018
- Another Bright Departure, 2019
- Dark Traffic, 2021
- Ex Machina, 2023
- Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic, 2024
Plays
- The Gilded Tusk, this play won a contest at the Anchorage Museum.
Poems in Collections
Some of Joan Kane's poems have been included in larger collections of poetry.
- Best American Poetry, 2015
- Monticello in Mind, 2016
- Read America(s), 2016
- Syncretism and Survival, Forums on Poetics, 2017
- Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, 2018
- The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice, 2018
Learn More
- You can find more quotes by Joan Naviyuk Kane on Wikiquote: Joan Naviyuk Kane on Wikiquote
