American poet
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 volumes of
poetry , poetry
chapbooks , and a poetry
broadside . Her poems have appeared in print and online journals and anthologies published in Japan, the
United States ,
United Kingdom ,
Canada ,
Australia and a number of other countries. 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] feminism.,
[3] and she has a long-standing interest in disability poetics.
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
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 vegan and an 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."
[8] Her tenth full-length collection, Plan B Audio , which includes photography by Susan Laura Sullivan, addresses cancer, the female body and other subjects; her treatment of these issues is discussed in reviews of this work in Tears in the Fence ,
[9] The Long Poem Magazine ,
[10] and Wordgathering .
[11]
Major publications
Poetry collections, chapbooks, and broadsides
Skin Museum ,
Avant Books , Tokyo, 2006.
ISBN
978-4903552026 .
Aquiline ,
Printed Matter Press , Tokyo, 2007.
ISBN
978-1933606118 .
EXHIBIT C ,
Ahadada Books , Toronto/Tokyo, 2008.
ISBN
978-0980887372 .
The Meditations ,
Otoliths , Rockhampton, Australia, 2009.
ISBN
978-0980602555 .
incidental music ,
BlazeVOX Books , Buffalo, NY, 2010.
ISBN
978-1935402947 .
notational , Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia, 2011.
ISBN
978-0-9808785-2-3
blank notes (poetry broadside),
Country Valley Press , USA, 2012.
flux of measure (poetry chapbook),
quarter after press , USA, 2012.
season of flux (poetry chapbook),
quarter after press , USA, 2013.
Invisible City
White Sky Ebooks , USA, 2012.
FLUX
BlazeVOX , Buffalo, NY, 2013.
ISBN
978-1-60964-155-9
wildblacklake (poetry chapbook)
Hank's Original Loose Gravel Press , Palmyra, NY, 2014.
"Distant Landscapes",
theenk Books , Palmyra, NY, 2015.
ISBN
978-0-9883891-3-7
"diurnal" (poetry chapbook),
Grey Book Press , USA, 2016.
"terra form(a)" (poetry ebook),
The Argotist Online , UK, 2017
"women poetry migration: an anthology"
theenk Books , Palmyra, NY, 2017
ISBN
978-0-9883891-6-8
"Poems: New & Selected"
Isobar Press , Tokyo, 2018,
ISBN
978-4-907359-25-6
"Plan B Audio"
Isobar Press , Tokyo, 2020,
ISBN
978-4-907359-29-4
References
^ Tarlo, Harriet. "Women and ecopoetics: an introduction in context."
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_2/ecopoetics/introstatements/tarlo_intro.html
^ Tarlo, Harriet."Recycles: the Eco-Ethical Poetics of Found Text in Contemporary Poetry"
http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/view/120
^ Kamata, Suzanne."Aquiline by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa A Review"
http://www.myspace.com/hercircleezine/blog/325096791
^ Joritz-Nakagawa, Jane. Interview with Jennifer Bartlett:
https://jacket2.org/commentary/jennifer-bartlett-conversation-jane-joritz-nakagawa
^ Wiener, Diane R. Interview with Jane Joritz-Nakagawa:
https://wordgathering.com/vol14/issue2/interviews/joritz-nakagawa/
^ Joritz-Nakagawa,Jane. The cancer of fibropoetics.
https://www.argotistonline.co.uk/THE%20CANCER%20OF%20FIBROPOETICS.pdf
^ Joritz-Nakagawa,Jane. Mother nature v. idealized machines: fluids, fluidity and contemporary ecopoetry by American women.
https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2020/04/jane-joritz-nakagawa.html
^ 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
^ Brinton, Ian "Plan B Audio by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa." Tears in the Fence , 15 June 2020.
https://tearsinthefence.com/2020/06/15/plan-audio-b-by-jane-joritz-nakagawa-isobar-press/
^ Presley, Frances "Sexual Damage and Porcelain." The Long Poem Magazine. 2021.
http://longpoemmagazine.org.uk/reviews/jane-joritz-nakagawa-plan-b-audio-and-steven-hitchens-the-lager-kilns
^ Wiener, Diane R. "Plan B Audio ." Wordgathering 14 3. September 2020.
https://wordgathering.com/vol14/issue3/reviews/joritz-nakagawa/
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