with snow pouring southward past the window

Joan Naviyuk Kane’s previous books of poetry include The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, Milk Black Carbon, and Dark Traffic in addition to the chapbooks The Straits, Sublingual, A Few Lines in the Manifest, Another Bright Departure, Ex Machina and & all the ones who chose to leave her. Her edited volumes include The Griffin Poetry Prize 2017 Anthology, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic, and the forthcoming Colonialism and the Environments: Past, Presents, Futures. A Guggenheim Fellow, Radcliffe Fellow, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow, and Whiting Award and Paul Engle Prize recipient, she’s a 2025 United States Artists Fellow in Oregon, where she’s an associate professor at Reed College.