Join us as we welcome Julie Danho, Jennifer Franklin, and Tina Cane to the bookshop! Each poet has their own unique connection to Providence, and we're thrilled to have them convene here to share their poetry. This event is free and open to all!
ABOUT JULIE DANHO
Julie Danho is the author of Those Who Keep Arriving, which won the 2018 Gerald Cable Book Award (Silverfish Review Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Bennington Review, and Poetry Daily, among other publications. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, won the 2013 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition, and she has received a MacColl Johnson Fellowship as well as fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. You can find more of her work at juliedanho.com.
ABOUT JENNIFER FRANKLIN
Jennifer Franklin holds degrees from Brown University and Columbia University School of the Arts. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections including If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, 2023). Franklin received a 2021 NYFA/City Artist Corps grant and a 2021 Café Royal Cultural Foundation Literature Award. Her work has been published widely including in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, The Nation, The Paris Review, and Poetry Society’s “Poetry in Motion, Rhode Island.” Most recently, Diane Seuss chose one of Franklin’s poems for The Academy of American Poets “poem-a-day.” She teaches craft workshops in Manhattanville's MFA program and 24 Pearl Street of Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. For the past ten years, she has taught manuscript revision at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, where she serves as Program Director.
ABOUT TINA CANE
Tina Cane serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI. Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought, Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz (Skillman Ave. Press, 2016), Once More With Feeling, Body of Work, and Year of the Murder Hornet--all from Veliz Books. In 2016, Cane received the Poetry Merit Fellowship Award from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and, in 2020, was a Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. Tina is also the creator/ curator of the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread. Cane's debut novel-in-verse for young adults, Alma Presses Play(Penguin/Random House), was released in September 2021. Tina is also editor of Poetry is Bread: The Anthology, which will be published by Nirala Press in 2023. Are You Nobody, Too?—Cane's newest novel-in-verse for young readers—will be released in the summer of 2024.