John Haines

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John Haines (b. 1924 in Norfolk, Virginia) is a former poet laureate of Alaska. He is the author of several collections of poetry, and teaches graduate level and honors English classes at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Anthologies 2 Honors 3 External links

[edit] Bibliography

• Winter Light (in press). CD; readings from earlier collections of poems and essays, with introductions to each collection. Read by the author.
• 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 (Graywolf Press, 1996)
• The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer (Graywolf Press, 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 (Graywolf Press, 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] Anthologies

• A Place on Earth: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia and North America. 2004. Edited by Mark Tredinnick.
• The Best American Poetry 1999. Edited by David Lehman.
• A Republic of Rivers: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon. 1990. Edited by John A. Murray.
• Inroads: An Anthology Celebrating Alaska's Twenty-seven Fellowship Writers. 1988. Edited by Elyse Guttenberg and Jean Anderson.
• Poetry of the Committed Individual. 1973. Edited by Jon Silkin.

[edit] Honors

• 2007 USA Rasmuson Fellow from United States Artists
• 2005 Rasmuson Foundation Distinguished Artist
• University of Alaska Northern Momentum Scholar, 2002
• Fellow, the Academy of American Poets, 1997
• Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alaska Center for the Book/Library of Congress, 1994
• Poets' Prize, 1991
• Alaska Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
• two Guggenheim Fellowships
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship, 1976-1977

[edit] External links

• Certain Things Intruding on the Wilderness: A Three-Cornered Conversation with John Haines, Artful Dodge
• introduction to New Poems: 1980-1988 by Dana Gioia.
• review of The Wilderness of Vision, collection of criticism of Haines' poetry
• Rasmuson Foundation 2007 Fellows
• United States Artists Arts Advocacy Organization.