Join us for an evening with former Rhode Island Poet Laureate and educator Tina Cane for this special PoemCity program. Sponsored by the Montpelier Community Foundation, Cane will read from her collection of poems while reflecting on the importance of inspiring young writers.
Photo Credit Cormac Crump.
About the presenter
Tina Cane is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, and, from 2016-2024, served as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she lives with her husband and three children. In her capacity as poet laureate, Cane established her state’s first youth poetry ambassador program in partnership with Rhode Island Center for the Book, and brought the Poetry-in-Motion program from the New York City Transit System to Rhode Island’s state-wide buses. Learn more on her website.
Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought, Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz (Skillman Books, 2016), Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books 2017), Body of Work (Veliz Books, 2019), and Year of the Murder Hornet (Veliz Books, 2022). In 2016, Tina received the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She was also a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academyof American Poets. Her debut novel-in-verse for young adults, Alma Presses Play (Penguin/Random House) was released in September 2021. Cane is also the creator/ curator of the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread, and the editor of Poetryis Bread: The Anthology (Nirala Press, 2025). Her second verse novel for young readers, Are You Nobody Too? (Penguin/ Random House) was released in August 2024.
