John Haines



John Haines (1924 – March 2, 2011) was an American poet and educator who served as the poet laureate of Alaska.

Life
John Meade Haines, who was born in Norfolk, Virginia, published nine collections of poetry. He was appointed the Poet Laureate of Alaska in 1969. A collection of critical essays about his poetry, The Wilderness of Vision, was published in 1998. Haines taught graduate level and honors English classes at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He died in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Recognition

 * 2008 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
 * 2007 USA Rasmuson Fellow from United States Artists
 * 2005 Rasmuson Foundation Distinguished Artist
 * University of Alaska Northern Momentum Scholar, 2002
 * Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for New Poems (2000)
 * Western States Book Award for New Poems (2000)
 * 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 Traveling Fellowship, 1976–1977

Poetry

 * Winter News 1966.
 * The Stone Harp 1971.
 * News from the Glacier: Selected Poems 1960-1980. Wesleyan, 1982.
 * The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-five Years in the Northern Wilderness. Graywolf Press, 1989.
 * New Poems 1980-88 1990.
 * The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer. Graywolf Press, 1993.
 * Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays. Graywolf Press, 1996.
 * At the End of This Summer: Poems 1948-1954. Copper Canyon Press, 1997.
 * For the Century's End: Poems 1990 — 1999. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press.

Essays

 * Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place University of Michigan Press, 1981.

Anthologized

 * Poetry of the Committed Individual. (edited by Jon Silkin). 1973.
 * Inroads: An Anthology Celebrating Alaska's Twenty-seven Fellowship Writers (edited by Elyse Guttenberg and Jean Anderson). 1988.
 * A Republic of Rivers: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon (edited by John A. Murray). 1990.
 * The Best American Poetry 1999 (edited by David Lehman).
 * A Place on Earth: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia and North America (edited by Mark Tredinnick). 2004.

Audio / video

 * Winter Light (2008). CD; readings from earlier collections of poems and essays, with introductions to each collection. Read by the author.