janice northerns
to listen to KS Poet Laureate Traci Brimhall read and discuss my poem "North Star"!
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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2-4 pm Aug. 9, 2025
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OPEN MIC NIGHT
MBC Lounge, 7 pm Aug. 22, 2025
(Watch for more info!)
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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. Her debut poetry collection, Some Electric Hum, won the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award (University of Kansas) and the Nelson Poetry Book Award (Kansas Authors Club), and was a finalist for the WILLA Literary Award. Northerns' work has been published widely in journals and nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. She and her husband, the poet Bill McGlothing, live in Wichita, Kansas.
