John Haines

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John Haines (b. 1924 in Norfolk, Virginia) is a former poet laureate of Alaska.

[edit] Bibliography

• For the Century's End: Poems 1990—1999 Seattle and London: University of Washington Press
• At the End of This Summer: Poems 1948-1954 (Copper Canyon Press, 1997)
• Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays (1996)
• The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer (1993)
• New Poems 1980-88 (1990), (received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Western States Book Award)
• The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-five Years in the Northern Wilderness (1989)
• News from the Glacier: Selected Poems 1960-1980 (Wesleyan, 1982)
• Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place (University of Michigan Press, 1981)
• The Stone Harp (1971)
• Winter News (1966)

[edit] Honors

• University of Alaska Northern Momentum Scholar, 2002
• Fellow, The Academy of American Poets, 1997
• Alaska Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
• two Guggenheim Fellowships
• Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Lifetime Achievement Award from the Library of Congress

[edit] External links

• Certain Things Intruding on the Wilderness: A Three-Cornered Conversation with John Haines, Artful Dodge
• review of The Wilderness of Vision, collection of criticism of Haines' poetry