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John Meade Haines (June 29, 1924 – March 2, 2011) was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska.

Biography
Haines was born in Norfolk, Virginia. The son of a career Navy officer and moved from state to state he lived California, Hawaii, Washington, and New England. He later moved to Washington, D.C where he attended St. John's College High School. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946. He was educated at the National Art School from 1946 to 1947. In 1947 Haines bought a 160-acre homestead claim 80 miles outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. Haines was unable to paint because of his paint freezing from the cold weather of Alaska and started writing that first winter while he was on the Richardson Homestead. In 1948 he left Alaska because he wanted to back to school. He attended American University from 1948 to 1949. He attend From 1950 to 1952 he studied at Hans Hoffman's School of Fine Arts in New York before moving to Alaska where he homesteaded from 1954 to 1969. Haines moved to San Diego in 1969, and lived in the lower 48 states for several years before returning to Alaska. He died in Fairbanks, Alaska. Tributes to John Haines by the author and literary critic John A. Murray were published in The Bloomsbury Review, July–August 2011 and The Sewanee Review, Winter 2012.

Career
Haines published nine collections of poetry and numerous works of nonfiction, including his acclaimed Alaskan book The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness. Haines was twice the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was appointed the Poet Laureate of Alaska in 1969. A collection of critical essays about his poetry, The Wilderness of Vision, was published in 1998. Haines taught graduate level and honors English classes at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. John A. Murray also conducted a lengthy interview with John Haines in The Bloomsbury Review, July–August 2004. There are lengthy discussions of John Haines in Murray's book Abbey in America: A Philosopher's Legacy in a New Century (University of New Mexico Press, Jun 15, 2015) in the essay 'The Age of Abbey' and in the Afterword.

Anthologies

 * A Place on Earth: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia and North America. 2004. Edited by Mark Tredinnick.
 * The Best American Poetry 1999. Edited by David Lehman.
 * A Republic of Rivers: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon. 1990. Edited by John A. Murray.
 * Inroads: An Anthology Celebrating Alaska's Twenty-seven Fellowship Writers. 1988. Edited by Elyse Guttenberg and Jean Anderson.
 * Poetry of the Committed Individual. 1973. Edited by Jon Silkin.

Honors

 * 2008 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
 * 2007 USA Rasmuson Fellow from United States Artists
 * 2005 Rasmuson Foundation Distinguished Artist
 * University of Alaska Northern Momentum Scholar, 2002
 * Fellow, the Academy of American Poets, 1997
 * Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alaska Center for the Book/Library of Congress, 1994
 * Poets' Prize, 1991
 * Alaska Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
 * two Guggenheim Fellowships
 * National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
 * Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, 1976–1977