Jane Joritz-Nakagawa Explained

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
Birth Date:November 1, 1960
Birth Place:Harvey, Illinois
Occupation:Poet, Essayist
Nationality:American
Period:Contemporary
Genre:Poetry

, born in 1960, is an avant-garde, expatriate American poet and essayist who resides in Japan. She is the author of volumes of poetry, poetry chapbooks, and a poetry broadside. Her poems have appeared in print and online journals and anthologies published in Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and a number of other countries. Her work is archived in the University of Chicago library's special collection of poetry from Japan.

Her work has been linked to ecopoetics,[1] [2] feminism.,[3] and she has a long-standing interest in disability poetics.[4] [5] [6] [7]

Biography

Jane Joritz was born in Harvey, Illinois in 1960. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing (poetry specialization) from Columbia College (Chicago) and completed her Masters of Arts degree in linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1989, she moved to Japan, and in 1990, married Japanese urologist Junichirō Nakagawa.

She worked as associate professor at a national teacher training university, Aichi University of Education, until the spring of 2012, where she taught courses in American and British poetry, comparative poetry, gender studies, American history and pedagogy. Currently she is a freelance writer and educator living in Shizuoka Prefecture and Nagano Prefecture.

A vegan and an advocate of women's and animal rights, she has stated "Activism runs through what I read and what I write and what I'm teaching."[8] Her tenth full-length collection, Plan B Audio, which includes photography by Susan Laura Sullivan, addresses cancer, the female body and other subjects; her treatment of these issues is discussed in reviews of this work in Tears in the Fence,[9] The Long Poem Magazine,[10] and Wordgathering.[11]

Major publications

Poetry collections, chapbooks, and broadsides

Notes and References

  1. Tarlo, Harriet. "Women and ecopoetics: an introduction in context."http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_2/ecopoetics/introstatements/tarlo_intro.html
  2. Tarlo, Harriet."Recycles: the Eco-Ethical Poetics of Found Text in Contemporary Poetry"http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/view/120
  3. Kamata, Suzanne."Aquiline by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa A Review"http://www.myspace.com/hercircleezine/blog/325096791
  4. Joritz-Nakagawa, Jane. Interview with Jennifer Bartlett: https://jacket2.org/commentary/jennifer-bartlett-conversation-jane-joritz-nakagawa
  5. Wiener, Diane R. Interview with Jane Joritz-Nakagawa: https://wordgathering.com/vol14/issue2/interviews/joritz-nakagawa/
  6. Joritz-Nakagawa,Jane. The cancer of fibropoetics. https://www.argotistonline.co.uk/THE%20CANCER%20OF%20FIBROPOETICS.pdf
  7. Joritz-Nakagawa,Jane. Mother nature v. idealized machines: fluids, fluidity and contemporary ecopoetry by American women. https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2020/04/jane-joritz-nakagawa.html
  8. Kosaka, Kris. "Writer, teacher, advocate finds her stride in the Japanese countryside." The Japan Times. 15 Dec 2012. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20121215a1.html
  9. Brinton, Ian "Plan B Audio by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa." Tears in the Fence, 15 June 2020. https://tearsinthefence.com/2020/06/15/plan-audio-b-by-jane-joritz-nakagawa-isobar-press/
  10. Presley, Frances "Sexual Damage and Porcelain." The Long Poem Magazine. 2021. http://longpoemmagazine.org.uk/reviews/jane-joritz-nakagawa-plan-b-audio-and-steven-hitchens-the-lager-kilns
  11. Wiener, Diane R. "Plan B Audio." Wordgathering 14 3. September 2020. https://wordgathering.com/vol14/issue3/reviews/joritz-nakagawa/

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