Tuesday, Nov. 17, 6-8 p.m.
UAA Campus Bookstore

Joan Kane is Inupiaq Eskimo, with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, Alaska. With the assistance of a 2007 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award, Kane completed her first book of poetry, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, which she will share with us.

Joan Kane's past achievements include being a former Harvard National Scholar and a recipient of a Columbia University Writing Fellowship. She received the John Haines Award from Ice Floe Press in 2004 and was an Academy of American Poets semi-finalist for the Walt Whitman Award in 2006.

Everyone is encouraged to attend this event; free parking is available. For more information, contact Rachel Epstein at (907) 786-4782. This event is sponsored with the Alaska Center for the Book, the ANAIHMC and the UAA Campus Bookstore.