Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

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

• 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.

External links

• Review of Distant Landscapes in Plumwood Mountain
• Review of FLUX and wildblacklake in Plumwood Mountain
• Review of notational and incidental music in The Japan Times
• Review of incidental music in GALE Journal
• Review of The Meditations in Poetry Kanto
• Review of EXHIBIT C in Tokyo Metropolis
• Review of Aquiline in Her Circle
• Review of Aquiline in Poetry Kanto
• Review of Skin Museum in Tokyo Metropolis
• Mistaken Indemnities in Jacket
• Conversation with Maxine Chernoff in Jacket
• Unstable identities in The Argotist Online
• Conversation with Eric Selland in The Conversant
• Modern Pastorals in HOW2

References