Monday Night Poetry Six Week Workshop: Revision & Resistance with Tina Cane (via Zoom)
Tina Cane will teach the second session of 2025 Monday Night Poetry, HVWC’s popular poetry class series. Note: You do not have to have been enrolled in the first session to register for this class.
REVISION AND RESISTANCE—a workshop. William Faulkner’s famous advice: “In writing, you must kill all your darlings,”
is easier said than done. In this six-week course, we will reflect upon poetry as a form of resistance, and upon revision as a form
of reflection. We will read poems that disrupt. We will poem through disruption. We will reflect upon inherited assumptions
and structures within our poems and within our lives. By examining and pushing back against reflexive habits in our writing,
we will consider radical revision as a path towards new poems.
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.
