janice northerns
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Poetry Reading at State Fair, Hutchinson
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2021 Byron Caldwell Smith
Book Award for Poetry
(University of Kansas)
2021 Nelson Poetry Book Award
(Kansas Authors Club)
2021 WILLA Literary Award Finalist
in Poetry
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“Some Electric Hum reads … like a treatise on the ways communities are crafted by wanting, having, and then letting go. … This book exemplifies her skill in giving language to those fragile and ephemeral experiences of connection, as well as her determination to understand how connection might be felt in the barely perceptible hum of a completed circuit, closed but still alive with alternating electric currents.“
—KAC Contest Judge Dr. Sandra Cox
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Lamar University Literary Press, 2020
About the Author
Janice Northerns
Janice Northerns grew up on a farm in rural West Texas and holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Texas Tech University. After teaching college and high school English for many years, she recently took early retirement to devote more time to writing. She currently lives in southwest Kansas with her husband, Bill McGlothing. An award-winning poet, Northerns' work has been published widely in journals such as The Chariton Review, descant, The Laurel Review, Roanoke Review, Southwestern American Literature, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere. Some Electric Hum is her first full-length poetry collection.
