This Monday Night Poetry workshop meets June 2, June 9, June 16, June 23, June 30, and July 7 on Zoom.
Protest poetry has a rich history and remains an important form of resistance. In this workshop, we will read work by poets from various traditions who effectively channel their values and beliefs into creative action. We will reflect on the role of art in resistance movements, and the role of protest in contemporary American life. Poets of the French Resistance such as: René Char, Robert Desnos, Madeleine Riffaud, and Ovida Delect will serve as inspiration, as will the work of Aimé Césare, Mahmoud Darwish, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Antije Krog, Layli Longsoldier, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and others.
Tina Cane was born in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC in 1969 and grew up in the city’s East and West Village. She attended the University of Vermont, the Sorbonne and completed her master’s degree in French Literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and Middlebury College. She is the founder and director of Writers-in-the Schools, RI, for which she works as a visiting poet. Over the past twenty-five years, Tina has taught French, English, and creative writing in public and private schools throughout New York City and Rhode Island. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including Spinning Jenny, The Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Common, Poem-a-Day. Her work,The Fifth Thought, was the 2008 Other Painters Press chapbook winner. Her other books include Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, Once More With Feeling, and Body of Work. Tina was the 2016 recipient for 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. In 2020, Cane was named a poet laureate fellow with the Academy of American Poets. Tina is also the creator/curator of the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread.
Photo Credit: Cormac Crump
Cost is $343.38