Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, Alaska. Her recent honors include the 2013 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship, a Creative Vision Award from United States Artists, and a Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellowship. Kane is on the faculty of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and received the 2014 Indigenous Writer in Residence fellowship at the School for Advanced Research. She also received the Whiting Writers’ Award for her first poetry collection, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife.

Other poems by Joan Naviyuk Kane in Verse Daily:
April 5, 2010:   "Tributary" "Just beyond a bend in the river..."

Books by Joan Naviyuk Kane:

Other poems on the web by Joan Naviyuk Kane:
"HEADLINE NEWS"
"Antistrophic"
"Anchorage"

Joan Naviyuk Kane's Website.

About Hyperboreal:

"Arnica nods heavy-headed on the bruised slope.’ In these vivid, disturbing, and mysterious poems, written in English and Inupiaq, Joan Kane writes out of the landscape and language of the far north. Hyperboreal is situated at a threshold between cultures, between inner and outer worlds, and the poems are voiced with a ‘knife blade at the throat’s slight swell.’ Her compelling vision is earned through a language that will dislocate in order to relocate and whose tonal shifts are exact and exacting."
—Arthur Sze

"Kane’s lyric voice is terse, lapidary; each of these poems is, as John Taggart would have it, a ‘room for listening.’ There is an immense and insistent stillness here, ‘From / the forest / the wind / has all revised’ to the ‘dreams inlaid with rigid marrow.’ These are songs of ‘intaction,’ of that which endures, poised against ‘the / long fermata of dusk / and its promised repetition.’"
—G. C. Waldrep

"I am mesmerized by these poems, their sonorous pathways across time and place; how they absorb and let me linger awhile in their stark beauty. Joan Kane has created a genuine indigenous poetic, irreducible, a point of reorigination and new beginnings. Hyperboreal will be remembered and celebrated."
—Sherwin Bitsui