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Joan Kane’s poetry included in Words and Pictures exhibit
November 20th, 2008
Former Information Insights’ staffer Joan Kane was featured in an article in the Life section of this Sunday’s Anchorage Daily News. The article reviews the Words and Pictures exhibit that opens this week at Anchorage’s MTS gallery. One of Joan’s poems is included in the exhibit.
Joan is an emerging Alaska poet whose work has recently also been included in the anthology, Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment by University of Alaska Press, alongside such Alaska writing luminaries as John Haines and Nick Jans. In the ADN article, Joan talks about how strong images and “the sonics of a poem” are important to her work. You can hear that for yourself in her poem “Due North,” which Joan read recently on KSKA. She says, “I enjoy writing poems that provide another way of entering what can be perceived as a flat landscape.” Joan wrote “Due North” in anticipation of returning to Alaska after five years of exile in New York City.
Joan is an Inupiaq Eskimo with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo. Joan holds degrees from Harvard College and Columbia University. Read more of Joan’s work at joankanewriting.com.