With Snow Pouring Southward Past the Window: Poems

Description: Included in LitHub's Most Anticipated Poetry of 2026
Ms. Magazine Best Poetry of 2025 and 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.

Review Quotes: These poems move ferociously through landscapes of rupture, wielding exacting, rigorous vocabularies that feel scraped from the wary and hoarfrosted voice of a poet-seer who spares no bullshit: 'No more I want to go home. No more I want to go into another time. No more want, just need.' Kane's word is urgent throughout, marked by an insistent naming of plants, people, places--an act of preservation against all that slips away: 'gather them--my eyes are brimming with tears.' Even as everything edges toward loss, this collection builds something lasting and vibrant: 'for the sorrow to become something islandic. / Someplace we can travel back to together / if we have to, if we make it through these days.' This book will gut you and sweep you clean.--Stephanie Adams-Santos, author of Dream of Xibalba