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Joan Kane
Where to find her, kinda
pls see
thejoankane.com and most on socials as @naviyuk
A p p e a r a n c e S (IN THE DISTANT PAST)
readings, teaching & talks
in 2016
State University of New York at Geneseo
The Genesee Literary Forum
205 Doty Hall, Park Street
Geneseo, NYNovember 10, 2016 6 pm
Women in a Changing World
with Gail Devers and Geraldine Fabrikant
Asolo Repertory Theater
5555 N Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL
October 7, 2016 530pm
Institute of American Indian Arts 2016 Fall Writer's Festival
Santa Fe, NM
with Amanda Boyden and Melissa FebosFriday, July 29 6pm
Naropa Summer Writing Program
Boulder, Colorado
Naropa University Performing Arts Center
2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder
Tuesday, June 21 at 730pm
with Dorothy Wang, Cedar Sigo, Roberto Tejada
Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Annual Conference
Pitt Poetry Series Reading: The West Coast Connection
Room 403 A, LA Convention Center
Saturday, April 2, 2016 4:30pm to 5:45pmHaverford College
Haverford, PA
Magill Library Philips Wing, Haverford CollegeThursday, February 25, 2016, 7pm
Institute of American Indian Arts 2016 Spring Writer's Festival
Santa Fe, NM
with Lidia Yuknavitch and Jon DavisTuesday, January 5 6pm
in 2015
International Writing Program American Writers on Tour
Kiev, Kharkiv & Poltava, Ukraine
December 2015
with Christopher Merrill, Jennifer Croft, Elliot Ackerman, Jeffrey Brown
Arctic Circle Assembly
HARPA, Austurbakki 2, 101Reykjavík, Iceland
October 15-18
Read Local: A Celebration
APU/UAA Consortium Library
Anchorage, Alaska
Saturday October 10, 7-930pm
Best American Poetry Launch Reading
Hugo House
Seattle, Washington
Friday October 9, 2015 7pm
Alaska Pacific University
Kellogg Campus (Spring Creek Farm)
Palmer, Alaska
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
7pm
Woodland Pattern Bookstore
720 E. Locust St.
Milwaukee, WI 53212September 26, 7 pm
Best American Poetry Launch Reading 2015
The New School Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street New York, NY
September 24, 7 pmBerl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop
126A Front St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
with Orlando White, Danielle Vogel, and Robin Beth Schaer
September 23, 7-9pm
Institute of American Indian Arts 2015 Summer Writing Festival
Santa Fe, NM
July 28, 6pm
with Elissa Washuta, Derek Palacio, Ken White
Nallaŋniuqtuŋa
Shishmaref, Alaska
June 10-12, 2015
with Marek Ranis
International Writing Program American Writers on Tour
Bogota, Medellin & Cartagena, Colombia
May 18-26, 2015
with Christopher Merrill, Stephanie Greist, Jose Skinner, Luis Urrea
Yellow Medicine Review Spring 2015
Launch and discussion
April 19, 2015
Anchorage, AK
Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Annual Conference
April 8-11, 2015
Minneapolis, Minnesota
reading: 4/9/15 @ 130-245pm with Eric Gansworth, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Joan Kane, Tim Tingle, Debby Dahl Edwardson), Room M100 A, Mezzanine Level
University of Pittsburgh Press signing: booth #1502 & #1504, 4/9 @ noon-1230
Thursday, April 9
Hick Poetics Reading & Release
7:30pm at Patrick's Cabaret
3010 Minnehaha Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55406
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Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq with family from Ugiuvak (King Island) and Qawiaraq (Mary's Igloo), Alaska. Ex Machina (2023) follows The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife (2009), Hyperboreal (2013), The Straits (2015), Milk Black Carbon (2017), Sublingual (2018), A Few Lines in the Manifest (2018), Another Bright Departure (2019) and Dark Traffic (2021). Forthcoming is a full-length essay collection, Passing Through Danger, and the co-edited literary and visual multigenre anthology Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic. Kane also co-edited the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology, for which she served as a judge. Kane has been the recipient of the Whiting Writer’s Award, the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, the National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, the American Book Award, the Alaska Literary Award, the United States Artists Foundation Creative Vision Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, the Mellon Practitioner Fellowship in Race and Ethnicity at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, multiple Individual Artist awards & Artist Fellowships from the Rasmuson Foundation, and residencies with the School for Advanced Research, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Lannan Foundation, Millay Arts and Harvard's Radcliffe Institute. The 2023 recipient of the Paul Engle Prize from Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature and a 2023-2026 Fulbright Specialist, she has held faculty appointments in the department of English at Harvard University, in the department of English at Tufts University, the department of English at UMass Boston, and in the graduate creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has also served as a lecturer in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University, teaching courses in Native American and Indigenous Studies. At Scripps College, she was the 2021 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and Journalism.
B o o k s
Purchase Joan Kane's books via IndieBound, amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Voices from the American Land, Pitt Press, University of Alaska Press, or Albion Books.
Purchase Joan Kane's books via IndieBound, amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Voices from the American Land, Pitt Press, University of Alaska Press, or Albion Books.
W r i t i n g
in print & online
Up the Mountain | Bone Mineral | Salvage Phase | Peripheral Vision
"Up the Mountain," "Bone Mineral," "Salvage Phase," and "Peripheral Vision" in Ghost Town Issue 7.
To Live Beyond | Polynya | self-interview
"To Live Beyond," "Polynya," & self-interview published in Kin Poetry Journal
Eighteen new poems
“A Wall Collapsed,” “Little Air,” “Stemmata,” “The Straits,” “Creve Coeur,” “Enclitic,”“Earnings Statement,” “Grisaille,” “Unmercenaries,” “Morganatic,” “Exhibits from the Dark Museum,” “Starvation Episode,” “Metabole,” “Another Pastoral,” “From the Notebook,” “Point Transience,” “Nine Lines Against Dreamless Sleep,” and “Another Inlet,” poems in Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2014, Volume 31 Nos. 1 & 2.
Human Heart Toponymic | Near-surface Fault | Asinga/Replica |
Another Inlet
"Human Heart Toponymic," "Near-surface Fault," "Asinga/Replica," and "Another Inlet" in Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art
Infinitive | Asymmetry | Things that Have Nothing to Do with Adoration
"Infinitive," "Asymmetry," "Things that Have Nothing to Do with Adoration" in Waxwing Literary Journal Issue I
Things She Is Working On
projects & works in progress
Ugiuvaŋmiuguruŋa | I am from King Island
Updates coming soon. Iliġanamiik and quyaanna for your support and interest in our amazing journey to Ugiuvak.
Polar Lab
I seek through Polar Lab work personal context for the present and future state of the North and the Inupiaq diaspora.
N e w s
reviews, interviews & media
35th Annual American Book Awards Announced
The Before Columbus Foundation announces Joan Naviyuk Kane's Hyperboreal as one of the Winners of the Thirty-Fifth Annual American Book Awards.
Hyperboreal a finalist for PEN Center USA Literary Award
Joan Naviyuk Kane's Hyperboreal is a finalist for the 2014 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry.
Joan Kane receives Alaska Literary Award
The Alaska Arts and Cultures Foundation launches inaugural year of the Alaska Literary Awards.
Broadsided Press features poets Joan Kane and Fady Joudah in Translation Special
Kane poem vectorized via third annual translation feature of Broadsided Pres.
Boston Review on Hyperboreal
Suzanne Smith writes: "What is at stake in 'Hyperboreal' is not only the threat of 'cultural and biological extinction' faced by the Inupiaq people of Alaska, but also the contested place of the human in that landscape and more particularly, the lyric subject. Kane questions its customary property (which is loss) and its dream of deliverance from extinction through craft. . . In this book, we are never far from the prospective end of a line of human beings, if not the extinction of the landscape."
Hyperboreal reviewed at ZYZZYVA
Maggie Millner at ZYZZYVA notes: "Kane’s periodic refusal to translate testifies to the irreducibility of these messages, and to the impossibility of paraphrase from a language suffused with the knowledge of its own endangerment. As Spivak would have it, one cannot make widely legible an experience whose illegibility to dominant culture is among its fundamental experiential features."
Hyperboreal reviewed by Los Angeles Review of Books
"Quiet but never silent, Hyperboreal embodies the landscape it seeks to represent. Through observation and lived experience, these poems are indicative of an ever-watched and yet not always understood world. Here there is existence where humans are only a fragment." More from Alyse Bensel at Los Angeles Review of Books.
Kane profiled in The New York Times
"The poems of Joan Naviyuk Kane are lyrical blasts from a far northern landscape of history and myth. From the first lines of her second book, “Hyperboreal,” just published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Ms. Kane transports us." More with Joan Kane and Dana Jennings.
American Microreviews on Hyperboreal
"Hyperboreal accomplishes a great deal: it paints pastorals and impressions of uncapturable experiences with striking concision; it serves as a wire, a satellite transporting the life and culture of the Inupiaq people to the rest of the world (and transplants the rest of the world, for the duration of the book and in readers’ memories of the book, to the world of the Inupiaq people); it offers a confident and impressionistically lasting poetic voice.... More from Wesley Rothman at American Microreviews
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© 2015 the Joan Kane. Reading photo courtesy Santee Frazier.