John Haines

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.

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)

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.

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

External links

* [http://www.wooster.edu/artfuldodge/interviews/haines.htm Certain Things Intruding on the Wilderness: A Three-Cornered Conversation with John Haines] , Artful Dodge
* [http://www.danagioia.net/essays/ehaines.htm introduction to New Poems: 1980-1988] by Dana Gioia.
* [http://www.jeffers.org/reviews/review8.html review of The Wilderness of Vision] , collection of criticism of Haines' poetry
* [http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public/USADonors/USANationalLeadershipCommittee/RasmusonFoundation/index.cfm Rasmuson Foundation 2007 Fellows]
* [http://www.unitedstatesartists.org United States Artists Arts Advocacy Organization.]