Tina Cane is an American poet and activist in Rhode Island. She is currently the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island; she was appointed in 2016 for a five-year term.

Early life

Cane was born in

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. She earned a bachelor's degree in art at the

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, studied at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and the

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, and earned a master's degree in French literature from Middlebury College.

Career

After graduating, Cane was active in New York City's

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. Cane moved to Rhode Island in 2005. She founded Writers in the Schools in 2010, and remains the organization's Executive Director. Cane became Poet Laureate in 2016. As Poet Laureate Cane is responsible for coordinating and selecting the youth poet laureate or youth ambassadors for the state of Rhode Island. Cane has a regular column in the Providence Journal. In 2017, Cane launched a statewide Poetry in Motion program where poetry is featured on digital screens in RIPTA buses. Cane also founded the Youth Poetry Ambassadors in 2017. Cane's work features current topics and is often written free form. Her poems have appeared in

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, Barrow Street,

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and Tupelo Quarterly.

Works

* ''Body of Work'' (Veliz Books, 2019) * ''Once More With Feeling'', 2017 * ''Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante'' (Skillman Avenue Press, 2016) * ''The Fifth Thought'', 2008

Awards and honors

* Fellowship Merit Award, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, 2016

References

External links

Writers-in-the-Schools
founded and directed by Tina Cane
Poetry Dose
a podcast about poetry hosted by Tina Cane and Atticus Allen {{DEFAULTSORT:Cane, Tina Poets Laureate of Rhode Island Poets from Rhode Island Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Vermont alumni Middlebury College alumni