Julie Kane | |
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| Born | July 20, 1952 Boston |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University; Boston University; Louisiana State University |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Literary movement | New Formalist |
Julie Kane (born July 20, 1952 in Boston) is a contemporary American poet, scholar, and editor and was the Louisiana Poet Laureate for the 2011–2013 term.[1][2]
Although born in Massachusetts, Kane has lived in Louisiana for over three decades and writes about the region with the doubled consciousness of a non-native. Her work shows the influence of the Confessional poets; indeed, she was a student in Anne Sexton's graduate poetry seminar at Boston University at the time of Sexton's suicide. She is also associated with the New Formalist movement in contemporary poetry, although she has published free verse as well as formal verse. Her formal poems tend to bend the "rules" of poetic forms and employ slant rhyme.
- ^ "Louisiana Poet Laureate". Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
- ^ "Louisiana". The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 July 2022.