Just Listen to Yourself 2021: A Retrospective

Julie Kane, the 2011-2013 Louisiana Poet Laureate, is Professor Emeritus of English at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She also teaches in the low-residency poetry MFA program at Western Colorado University. A former Fulbright Scholar to Lithuania, Kane is the co-editor as well as a translator of Terribly in Love: Selected Poems by the poet Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė, who is known as the "Lithuanian Sylvia Plath."

Full biography: https://www.juliekanepoet.com/bio

From Mothers of Ireland:

• "Second Time Around"
• "That One Over"
• "Her Heart"

New poems:

• "Lemon Meringue Pie"
• "Duplex: Inmate on the Loose"
• "Whenever I Dropped a Knife"

Authored Books: 

• Kane, Julie. Mothers of Ireland. LSU P, 2020. 
• Kane, Julie. Paper Bullets. White Violet P, 2014. 
• Kane, Julie. Jazz Funeral. Story Line P, 2009. Winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, judged by David Mason. Second edition published by Red Hen P in its Story Line Press Legacy Series, 2021. 
• Kane, Julie. Rhythm & Booze. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 2003. Selected by Maxine Kumin as a winner of the 2002 National Poetry Series. One of four finalists for the 2005 Poets’ Prize. 
• Do, Kiem, and Julie Kane. Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer’s War. Annapolis, MD:  Naval Institute P, 1998. Selected as a History Book Club Featured Alternate for April 1999.   
• Kane, Julie. Body and Soul. New Orleans: Pirogue, 1987.   

Authored Chapbooks: 

• Kane, Julie. The Bartender Poems. London, U.K.: (Harold Pinter’s) Greville P, 1991. 
• Adatia, Ruth, and Julie Kane. Two Into One. London, U.K.: Only Poetry Publications, 1982. 

Edited Books: 

• Hix, H. L, and Julie Kane, Eds. Terribly in Love: Selected Poems, by Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė. Tr. From Lithuanian by H.L. Hix, Julie Kane, Jonas Zdanys, et al. Introduction by Julie Kane. Lost Horse P, 2018. 
• Bauer, Grace, and Julie Kane, Eds. Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Lost Horse P, 2017. 
• Bauer, Grace, and Julie Kane, Eds. Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox. Preface by R. S. Gwynn. New Orleans: Xavier Review P, 2006. Finalist for the 2007 Southern Independent Booksellers’ Alliance (SIBA) Book Award in Poetry. 
• Disheroon-Green, Suzanne, Ed.; Lisa Abney, Philip Castille, Barbara Ewell, Sarah Gardner, Joe Hardin, Julie Kane, and Pamela Menke, Associate Eds. Voices of the American South. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2005. 
• Ammons, A. R., Deborah Auer, Carol Burke, Rachel Davis, Julie Kane, Bruce Piasecki, and Ross Tharaud, Eds. The First Anthology. Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Society for the Humanities, 1974. 
   

Laureates Online with Julie Kane from 64 Parishes [2020]
Julie reads her poem “Saint Joseph’s #2, New Orleans”: https://fb.watch/57QhUPWQGx/

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