Tina Cane is the Poet Laureate ​of Rhode Island. She’s also the founder and director of Writers-in- the-Schools, RI. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including Spinning Jenny, The Literary Review, Two Serious Ladies, and Tupelo Quarterly. She’s the author of Once More With Feeling and The Fifth Thought. In 2016 she received a Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts