Julie Kane

A past Louisiana Poet Laureate, Julie Kane is a native of Boston and a longtime resident of Louisiana. Just out in 2025 from LSU Press is her career milestone collection, NAKED LADIES: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. Her previous poetry collection, MOTHERS OF IRELAND (LSU Press, 2020), won the Poetry by the Sea Book Prize and was a longlist finalist for the Julie Suk Prize. If you enjoy Dorothy Parker, you would enjoy her book of humorous poems, PAPER BULLETS. JAZZ FUNERAL won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, judged by David Mason. RHYTHM & BOOZE was selected by Maxine Kumin as a National Poetry Series winner and was one of four finalists for the Poets' Prize. Kane is the co-editor, with Grace Bauer, of the anthologies NASTY WOMEN POETS: AN UNAPOLOGETIC ANTHOLOGY OF SUBVERSIVE VERSE and UMPTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A POSSUM: CRITICAL AND CREATIVE RESPONSES TO EVERETTE MADDOX (a finalist for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award in Poetry). The nonfiction Vietnam memoir that she co-authored with Kiem Do, COUNTERPART, was a History Book Club Featured Alternate. A former George Bennett Fellow in Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Orleans Writer-in-Residence at Tulane University, and Fulbright Scholar at Vilnius Pedagogical University (Lithuania), she is Professor Emerita of English at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, currently teaching in the low-residency MFA program at Western Colorado University.