Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
Born November 1, 1960
Harvey, Illinois
Occupation Poet, Essayist
Nationality American
Period Contemporary
Genre Poetry

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa (中川ジェーン), born in 1960, is an avant-garde, expatriate American poet and essayist who resides in Japan. She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, poetry chapbooks, and a poetry broadside. Hundreds of her poems appear in print and online journals and anthologies published in Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Her work is archived in the University of Chicago library's special collection of poetry from Japan.

Her work has been linked to ecopoetics [1][2] and feminism.[3]

Biography

Jane Joritz was born in Harvey, Illinois in 1960. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing (poetry specialization) from Columbia College (Chicago) and completed her Masters of Arts degree in linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1989, she moved to Japan, and in 1990, married Japanese urologist Junichirō Nakagawa.

She worked as Associate Professor at a national teacher training university, Aichi University of Education, until the spring of 2012, where she taught courses in American and British poetry, comparative poetry, gender studies, American history and pedagogy. Currently she is a freelance writer and educator living in Shizuoka Prefecture and Nagano Prefecture.

A strict vegan and a passionate advocate of women's and animal rights, she has stated "Activism runs through what I read and what I write and what I'm teaching."[4]

Major Publications

Poetry collections, chapbooks, and broadsides

External links

References

  1. Tarlo, Harriet. "Women and ecopoetics: an introduction in context."http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_2/ecopoetics/introstatements/tarlo_intro.html
  2. Tarlo, Harriet."Recycles: the Eco-Ethical Poetics of Found Text in Contemporary Poetry"http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/view/120
  3. Kamata, Suzanne."Aquiline by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa A Review"http://www.myspace.com/hercircleezine/blog/325096791
  4. Kosaka, Kris. "Writer, teacher, advocate finds her stride in the Japanese countryside." The Japan Times. 15 Dec 2012. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20121215a1.html
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