Tina Cane is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI and is an instructor with the writing community, Frequency Providence. 
Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Literary Review, Two Serious Ladies, Tupelo Quarterly 
Jubliat and The Common.
 
She is the author of The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press, 2008), Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems 
with art by Esther Solondz (Skillman Avenue Press, 2016) and Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017. In 2016, 
Tina received the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
She currently serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, where she lives with her husband and their three children.
 

http://www.tinacane.ink/about.html

#1 Tina Cane

Matthew Lippman is the author of three poetry collections, AMERICAN CHEW, winner of The Burnside Review Book Prize (Burnside Review, 2013), Monkey Bars (Typecast Publishing, 2010), and The New Year of Yellow , winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize (Sarabande Books, 2007). He is the recipient of the 2010 Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review .

www.matthewlippmanpoetry.com/

#2 Matthew Lippman

Amy Pickworth reads her poem "The Ohio Poem", followed by "Ithaka" by C. P. Cavafy.

Amy Pickworth is the author of Bigfoot for Women. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. You can find more of her work at amypickworth.com.

#3 Amy Pickworth

Gary J. Whitehead reads his poem "Grey Water"
as well as one of his favorites from William Blake called " The Tyger"
Gary J. Whitehead’s poems recently appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Epoch, andThe Massachusetts Review. His third book of poetry, A Glossary of Chickens, was chosen by Paul Muldoon for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and published in 2013 by Princeton University Press. His work has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s NPR program The Writer’s Almanac and on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Guardian’s Poem of the Week. Whitehead has been the recipient of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize (The Massachusetts Review), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and the Princeton University Distinguished Secondary School Teaching Award. A featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and the Princeton Poetry Festival, he teaches English at Tenafly High School in New Jersey and lives in the Hudson valley of New York.

http://www.garyjwhitehead.com/

#4 Gary J. Whitehead

Andrew E. Colarusso was born and raised in Brooklyn. He is assistant professor of literary arts at Brown University and editor-in-chief of the Broome Street Review. His debut novel, The Sovereign, was just published by Dalkey Archive Press. www.iDoNotMove.com

reading 1: "Rachel" by Andrew Colarusso
reading 2: "Blue Dementia" by Yusef Komunyakaa

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#5 Andrew E. Colarusso

Here's a recording of Catherine Pierce reading her poem "Beach Town," and she talks about what went into writhing that poem. 
she also gives a  reading (for School Dose)of  E.E. Cummings's "since feeling is first".

#6 Catherine Pierce

Tina Cane on the creation of "Teacher, Teacher"

I was commissioned by The Total Teacher Project at Bryant University

to write an ode to teachers for their annual conference in August. While I loved the idea 

of celebrating teachers in a poem, I wasn't too keen on writing such a poem.  Since I am a teacher myself.

it seemed disingenuous to make the attempt. I do, however, have access to children through my program,

Writers-in-the-Schools, RI and through the school that my children attend in East Providence. I chose

to approach the teachers at our neighborhood school, Myron J. Francis Elementary. I gave a brief primer on odes and invited 

interested teachers to  have their students write odes as a classroom or extra credit activity. 


In June, i received about a hundred odes and, during July, I read them all, pulling a line, word or phrase from each--it was important 

that every student be represented, even if they were to  remain anonymous. Finally, I read the phrases I had collected, settled on a 

refrain and began arranging the words into lines to form a poem. The end result is "Teacher, Teacher," a poem composed entirely of 

children's own sentiments.


Their candor and humor and love confirmed what I already knew: That they would write the better poem!

I recruited my own children to record and take turns reading the poem. I think they did a wonderful job.

I hope this ode helps to remind teachers, as we start the school year ,that they are valued by the people 

those who count the most.

music:
atticus allen
outro, 38 Special  "Teacher Teacher"

Teacher  Teacher back to school special

Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day. A new hybrid collection of poetry and prose, Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision, comes out with Red Hen Press in the fall of 2017. In conjunction with Woolly Press, Matthews is currently serially publishing The Life & Times of American Crow, a “collage novel in 11 chapbooks.” Learn more at sebastianmatthews.com or americancrowgraphicnovel.com.


this podcast includes  "the Message" grandmaster flash 
it is produced by Tian cane & Atticus Allen

#7 Sebastian Matthews

Rhode Island Poet Laureate, Tina Cane, and author Matthew Zapruder host a reading and discussion of poetry and its role in modern society lIve in front of an audience in the Woodman Center at the Moses Brown School in Providence, RI.

Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry–his most recent, Come On All You Ghosts, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and his prose volume Why Poetry was released by Ecco Press/Harper Collins in August 2017.  A 2011 Guggenheim fellow, Zapruder is also editor-at-large at Wave Books, and from 2016-7 held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine.

In Why Poetry, Zapruder examines what poetry—and poetry alone—can do, and argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. He explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose.

In addition to serving as Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, Tina Cane is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI. She is an instructor with the writing community, Frequency Providence.   Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press, 2008), Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz (Skillman Avenue Press, 2016) and Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017). In 2016, Tina received the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry, from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

Matthew Zapruder with Tina Cane at PODO Live

Keegan Lester is the author of the collection of poetry this shouldn't be beautiful but it and it was all i had so i drew it,  selected by Mary Ruefle for the 2016 Slope Editions Book Prize. His work is published in or forthcoming from The Boston Review, Poem A Day for the Academy of Amercian Poets, Boaat, CutBank and Sixth Finch among others.  For more check out his website www.keeganlester.com  

music by Spirit Night
https://spiritnight.bandcamp.com/

#8 Keegan Lester

Readings:
"On Coming Across Christina's World at the Museum of Modern Art" by Ginny Wiehardt
School Dose reading of Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."

Ginny Wiehardt’s chapbook Migration won the 2016 Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in literary journals including Bellingham Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review,Subtropics, and Willow Springs and in the anthology Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity(Sundress Publications, 2016). She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Michener Center for Writers. Originally from Texas, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.

#9 Ginny Wiehardt

"Only Sweetness" by Rosalynde Vas Dias
"Stone" by Charles Simic

Rosalynde Vas Dias is the author of Only Blue Body from Anhinga Press.  Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere.

#10 Rosalynde Vas Dias

Heidi Reszies  
A poem from her series titled "Illusory Borders."

School Dose reading of “Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity," by John Tobias.

Heidi is a multidisciplinary artist living in Richmond, VA, and a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches letterpress printing at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, and manages Artifact Press, an independent micropress that publishes limited edition poetry chapbooks. Her poetry has recently appeared in literary journals including BOAAT, Daily Gramma, LEVELER, Fog Machine, Forklift Ohio, FORTH Magazine, Kelsey Street, La Vague Journal, SUSAN/the Journal, and Queen of Cups. Her chapbook "Recollections & Reenactments" was published by Zoo Cake Press in 2017.

#11 Heidi Reszies

Tracy K. Smith is the author of the memoir Ordinary Light and four books of poetry: Wade in the Water, (April 2018); Life on Mars, which received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende, recipient of the 2006 James Laughlin Award; and The Body's Question, which won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith is also the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Award and a Whiting Award. She was the Literature protégé in the 2009-2011 cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. In June 2017 she was named the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by the Library of Congress, and in March 2018 she was re-appointed to a second term for 2018-19.

#12 Tracy K Smith

on this episode two readings from Maggie Smith
Slipper by Maggie Smith
&
Fortress by Ann Sexton

Maggie Smith is the author of Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Good Bones, named by the Washington Post as one of the Five Best Poetry Books of 2017. The title poem, “Good Bones,” was called the “Official Poem of 2016” by Public Radio International and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received the Pushcart Prize, and fellowships and awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, The Believer, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Best American Poetry, and on the CBS primetime drama Madam Secretary. 
maggiesmithpoet.com

music by The Horse Eyed Men
horseyedmen.bandcamp.com/album/noah-h…-inch-series

#13 Maggie Smith

In the spirit of back to school season, we have Mr. Aaron Coleman sharing his poem, "On Acquiescence," as well as his School Dose selection, "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes.

Aaron Coleman is the author of Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018) and the chapbook St. Trigger, selected by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Fulbright Scholar and Cave Canem Fellow from Metro-Detroit, Aaron has lived and worked with youth in locations including Spain, South Africa, Chicago, St. Louis, and Kalamazoo. Aaron’s poems have appeared in journals including Boston Review, FENCE, and New York Times Magazine. As a poet and translator from Spanish, Aaron has received awards including the American Literary Translators Association’s Jansen Memorial Fellowship, the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Contest, and the Cincinnati Review Schiff Award. Aaron is currently a PhD student at Washington University St. Louis, studying 20th Century literature of the African Diaspora and Translation Studies in the Comparative Literature Program’s International Writers’ Track.

Music;
"Another Brick in the Wall" by Richard Cheese

#14 Aaron Coleman

Heather Lang Cassera—a poet, critic, literary editor, and educator—holds an MFA in Poetry with a Certificate in Literary Translation. In 2017 she was named Las Vegas' Best Local Writer or Poet by the readers of KNPR’s Desert Companion. Her poems have been published by or are forthcoming with The Normal School, North American Review, Pleiades, South Dakota Review, and other literary journals, and have been on exhibit in the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery. Heather curated Legs of Tumbleweeds, Wings of Lace, an anthology of literature by Nevada women, funded by the Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts. She serves as World Literature Editor for The Literary Review, Faculty Adviser for 300 Days of Sun, and Co-Publisher for Tolsun Books. At Nevada State College, Heather teaches Composition, Professional Writing, World Literature, and more

https://www.heatherlangwrites.com/

music:
thelittlecomptonband.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0j4U4PTrtqBEoRYVXIgtiU

#15 Heather Lang Cassera

Jennifer Franklin (AB Brown, MFA Columbia) is the author of two full-length collections, Looming (Elixir, 2015) and No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Boston Review, Connotation Press, Gettysburg Review, Paris Review, “poem-a-day” on poets.org, and Prairie Schooner. She is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. She teaches poetry workshops and seminars at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, where she serves as Program Director. She lives in New York City.

"My Daughter's Body" (Looming)byJ ennifer Franklin
"Tulips" by Sylvia Plath

music from
Dier straits "walk of life" insramental
Los Duderinos "?"

#16 Jennifer Franklin

reading one 
From the Calabrian Notebooks:
Calabria - Providence
by Peter Covino

reading two
"Ars Poetica"
by Giorgio Bassani

music from los duderinos
https://www.losduderinos.com/

Lucio Dalla, Francesco De Gregori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu92CzWMVpY

#17 Peter Covino

Ravi Shankar is the author, editor or translator of over a dozen books, including most recently "The Golden Shovel: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks" (University of Arkansas Press, 2017) and "Andal: The Autobiography of A Goddess" (Zubaan Books/University of Chicago Press, 2016). He has won a Pushcart Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, appeared on NPR, PBS, the BBC and in such publications as The New York Times, The Paris Review and Caravan, and been awarded many fellowships, including from the Rhode Island Commission on the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo. He founded Drunken Boat, one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, and he teaches and performs around the world, most recently for the New York Writers Workshop and as the Writer-in-Residence at Sun Yat-Sen University in Gwangzhou, China. His memoir-in-progress is entitled "Correctional" and he currently holds a research fellowship from the University of Sydney.

#18 Ravi Shankar

"Mother" written and read here by Sally Bliumis-Dunn

"For the Stranger" Carolyn Forché

www.sallybliumisdunn.com

Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College and offers individual manuscript conferences at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Her poems appeared in New Ohio Review,On the Seawall, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, PLUME, Poetry London, the NYT, PBS NewsHour, upstreet, The Writer’s Almanac, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, and Ted Kooser’s  column, among others. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her two books, Talking Underwater and Second Skin were published by Wind Publications in 2007 and 2010. Galapagos Poems published by Kattywompus Press in 2016. Her third full-length collection, Echolocation, was published by Plume editions Madhat Press in March of 2018. Shortly afterwards she was interviewed by Nin Andrews for THE BEST OF AMERICAN POETRY.
 
In 2019, her third book, ECHOLOCATION, Plume Editions/MadHat Press:
 
Long-listed for the Julie Suk Award for Best Book of Poetry in 2018.
Runner-up for the Eric Hoffer Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2018
Runner-up for the Poetry By The Sea Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2018.

#19 Sally Bliumis-Dunn

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