Julie Kane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American poet, scholar, editor
Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1952
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profession: writer, poet
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Julie Kane
- Disambiguation: for the character voiced by Kate Micucci see Motorcity#Protagonists.Julie Kane (born July 20, 1952 in Boston) is a contemporary American poet, scholar, and editor and the Louisiana Poet Laureate for the 2011–2013 term. Although born in Massachusetts, Kane has lived in Louisiana for over three decades and writes about the region with the doubled consciousness of a non-native.
- Her work shows the influence of the Confessional poets; indeed, she was a student in Anne Sexton's graduate poetry seminar at Boston University at the time of Sexton's suicide.
- She is also associated with the New Formalist movement in contemporary poetry, although she has published free verse as well as formal verse.
- Her formal poems tend to bend the "rules" of poetic forms and employ slant rhyme.
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