Joan Kane Explained

Joan Naviyuk Kane
Birth Name:	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 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, ; University of Alaska Press, 2012,
• Book: Hyperboreal. 21 October 2013. University of Pittsburgh Press. 978-0-8229-7914-2.
• Milk Black Carbon. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2017.
• 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.
• Another Bright Departure. CutBank Books. March 2019. .
• Dark Traffic. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2021.
• Ex Machina, Staircase Books. 7 June 2023.

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.
• Read America(s). Locked Horns Press, 2016.
• Syncretism and Survival, Forums on Poetics. Locked Horns Press, 2017.
• Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2018.
• The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice. 2018. Pleiades Press.

See also

• Joan Naviyuk Kane on Wikiquote - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joan_Naviyuk_Kane

External links

• Author's Website
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• The Cormorant Hunters Wife website
• News: Poems Against Loss: Joan Naviyuk Kane Talks About 'Hyperboreal'. Dana Jennings. November 14, 2013. The New York Times.
• News: Ghost Island Looms Large Among Displaced Inupiat Eskimos. NPR Staff. June 21, 2013. NPR.

Notes and References

1. News: Lines from the north: Poet and novelist Joan Naviyuk Kane. 7 April 2014. The New Mexican. February 13, 2014.
2. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Joan Naviyuk Kane. www.gf.org. en-US. 2018-10-11.
3. Web site: Joan Kane. 2019-03-01. Poetry Foundation. en. 2019-03-02.
4. Web site: Joan Kane. 2019-03-01. Poetry Foundation. en. 2019-03-02.
5. Web site: Joan Naviyuk Kane . Reed College Faculty Profiles . 29 January 2024.
6. News: Past Grantmaking. Rasmuson Foundation. 2018-10-11. en.
7. http://www.ktva.com/ci_13671263
8. Web site: Archived copy . 2014-01-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130726093347/http://evergreen.edu/longhouse/docs/nncdp2009grantrecipients.pdf . 2013-07-26 . dead .
9. Web site: Meet the 2010 Winners Alaska Conservation Foundation . alaskaconservation.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110325015549/http://alaskaconservation.org/achievement-awards/award-winners/meet-2010-winners/ . 2011-03-25.
10. Web site: AWP: Award Series Winners.
11. Web site: 2013 NACF Artist Fellowships Native Arts and Cultures Foundation . www.nativeartsandcultures.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140415005037/http://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/individual/2013 . 2014-04-15.
12. Web site: Rasmuson Foundation Press Release - Rofkar named Distinguished Artist . 2014-01-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140122034629/http://www.rasmuson.org/PressRelease/index.php?switch=view_pressrelease&iReleaseID=300 . 2014-01-22 . dead .
13. Web site: The School for Advanced Research.
14. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Joan Naviyuk Kane. www.gf.org. en-US. 2018-10-11.
15. Web site: Joan Naviyuk Kane.
16. Web site: PAUL ENGLE DAY AND PRIZE . Iowa City of Literature . 29 January 2024.
17. Web site: Green Room : 2 short plays turn history into 'Gold' at Anchorage Museum | adn.com . 2009-10-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090715043536/http://community.adn.com/node/141976 . 2009-07-15 . dead .