With Snow Pouring Southward Past the Window: Poems

Included in LitHub's Most Anticipated Poetry of 2026

The poems in with snow pouring southward past the window turn with and for relatives and beloveds across seas and oceans, continents and nations, languages and histories. In this collection, public and personal archives work with literary translations across several dialects of the Inupiaq language, and re-complexify Arctics at a time when empires once again seem interested in flattening and erasing millennia of Indigenous inhabitation, care, and situatedness. It was written between Massachusetts, Inuit Nunaat, Sápmi, the "Old World" and through waves of overlapping pandemics, political and social exigencies, and solidarities.

Author: Joan Naviyuk Kane
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.16w x 0.28d
ISBN13: 9780822967668
ISBN10: 0822967669
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Native American
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Animals & Nature

About the Author
Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of the poetry collections The Cormorant Hunter's Wife, Hyperboreal, Milk Black Carbon, and Dark Traffic. Her edited volumes include The Griffin Poetry Prize 2017 Anthology and Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic. A Guggenheim Fellow, Radcliffe Fellow, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow, Whiting Award winner, and Paul Engle Prize recipient, she's a 2025 United States Artists Fellow based in Oregon, where she's an associate professor at Reed College.