Joan Naviyuk Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane is a contemporary Inupiaq American poet. In 2014, Kane was the Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at the School for Advanced Research.Lines from the north: Poet and novelist Joan Naviyuk Kane http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/readings_signings/lines-from-the-north-poet-and-novelist-joan-naviyuk-kane/article_18959c86-36d0-5fe3-9b74-eb10e3f8d29c.html 7 April 2014 The New Mexican February 13, 2014 She was also a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. Kane was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/joan-naviyuk-kane/ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Joan Naviyuk Kane www.gf.org en-US 2018-10-11 Kane has family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska.https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joan-kane Joan Kane 2019-03-01 Poetry Foundation en 2019-03-02 She graduated from Harvard College with a BA and earned an M.F.A from Columbia University.https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joan-kane Joan Kane 2019-03-01 Poetry Foundation en 2019-03-02 thumb|alt=Joan Naviyuk Kane, picutred head and shoulders with black hair in a chin-length bob haircut and wearing a black shirt.|Joan Naviyuk Kane 1661 Quotes "Iridin" from Milk Black Carbon (2017)Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/milkblackcarbon0000kane Milk Black Carbon Joan Naviyuk Kane 2017 en-US 2023-12-26 thumb|Iris versicolor, larger blue flag, a source of the compound iridin thumb|Silene acaulis, moss campion, of the high arctic, tundra & mountains of Eurasia + North America thumb|Hedysarum alpinum, alpine sweet vetch or masu, a plant used in Inuit cuisine A coastline, a transitional place bears evidence of others dwelling: a house pit in the shape of a nest, another like a knife, a noose not lost not in time. Ours a useful relationship though not a tight one, for between us we knew there was something to lose. Fragrant in June heat & a field of confusion nothing like metaphor: moss campion, minute orchids, sweet sweet vetch. "At Bay" from Milk Black Carbon (2017)Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/milkblackcarbon0000kane Milk Black Carbon Joan Naviyuk Kane 2017 en-US 2023-12-26 thumb|Hooper Bay, Alaska thumb|Egegik bay on the Alaska Peninsula thumb|Snow damaged wooden dock, Nome, Alaska, January 1907 A metal roof thrashes in ceaseless gusts— day is done, punctured. The stones placed over the closed folds of her eyes grow cold. The sea a long line blurred forever in the distance. Somewhere snow falls on something illicit, raising it into beauty: a bramble of fresh hurt, its leaves revived and green and again incandescent with pollen. Had she been able to step from the boat, had she unloaded the small coffin— had he received gifts at dawn, hand-painted, mythical— you'd funnel into this illusion, your breath into the bellows. Published Works Poetry Books "Insomnia at North", AGNI, 3/2006 Due North, Columbia University, 2006 Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, NorthShore Press, 2009, 9780979436529; University of Alaska Press, 2012, 9781602231573 Hyperboreal https://books.google.com/books?id=opoXAgAAQBAJ 21 October 2013 University of Pittsburgh Press 978-0-8229-7914-2 Milk Black Carbon https://archive.org/details/milkblackcarbon0000kane 2017 University of Pittsburgh Press 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. 978-163534769-2 Another Bright Departure. CutBank Books. March 2019. 978-1-9397-1730-6. Dark Traffic. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2021. 978-0-8229-6662-3 Play Script The Gilded Tusk, won the Anchorage Museum script contest http://community.adn.com/node/141976 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 In Anthology Best American Poetry, Simon & Schuster, 2015. Monticello in Mind, University of Virginia Press, 2016. 978-0813938509 Read America(s). Locked Horns Press, 2016. 978-0990359920 Syncretism and Survival, Forums on Poetics. Locked Horns Press, 2017. 978-0990359937 Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2018.9780820353159 The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice. 2018. Pleiades Press. 978-0-9970994-1-6 Quotes about Joan Naviyuk Kane and her works "Joan Naviyuk Kane's fourth poetry collection, "Milk Black Carbon," is just out in the distinguished series issued by the University of Pittsburgh Press. An Inupiaq with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Kane lives in Anchorage. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the prestigious Whiting Award, the Donald Hall Prize and fellowships from the Rasmuson Foundation. According to Kane, her poems "transfer between self-portraiture and imaged representations of how difficult it is to repatriate oneself to an irrevocably changed homeland …" "Milk Black Carbon" begins with a poem entitled "Iridin," a word that I had to look up. It's a chemical derived from certain flowers and is used as a purgative. It can also be poisonous. The poem unfolds as a graceful observation: "A coastline, a transitional place/bears evidence of others dwelling …" Presumably this is the former homeland Kane is trying to reconnect with. Fragrant in June heat & a field of confusion nothing like metaphor: moss campion, minute orchids The title, then, is not just a metaphor, but an actual presence in the flowers observed in the scene. But iridin's medicinal use and its potential danger also suggest that the attempted return to a past way of life carries both rewards and dangers. This is a theme that runs through the book." ― Collection from Alaskan Joan Kane a satisfying journey for lyric poetry fans by John Morgan, 2017 March 19 in the Anchorage Daily Newshttps://www.adn.com/alaska-life/we-alaskans/2017/03/19/collection-from-alaskan-joan-kane-a-satisfying-journey-for-lyric-poetry-fans/ Collection from Alaskan Joan Kane a satisfying journey for lyric poetry fans 2017-03-19 Anchorage Daily News en 2023-12-27 thumb|more moss campion, with snow External links Author's Website Profile at The Whiting Foundation The Cormorant Hunters Wife website http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/poems-against-loss-joan-naviyuk-kane-talks-about-hyperboreal/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1 Poems Against Loss: Joan Naviyuk Kane Talks About 'Hyperboreal' Dana Jennings November 14, 2013 The New York Times https://www.npr.org/2013/06/21/193952830/ghost-island-looms-large-among-displaced-inupiat-eskimo Ghost Island Looms Large Among Displaced Inupiat Eskimos NPR Staff June 21, 2013 NPR References Category:Poets from the United States Category:Native American poets Category:Living people Category:Inupiat people Category:Writers from Anchorage, Alaska Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:American women poets Category:21st-century American poets Category:American Book Award winners Category:Native American women writers Category:21st-century American women Category:Women authors from the United States