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Providence is New England, number one, and an eccentric place to live to begin with. If you haven’t lived here for five or six generations, you might as well just forget it. You’re going to be an outsider and just get comfortable with that.

– Michael S. Harper

Poet Laureate

Lisa Starr

Featured Poets

	Galway Kinnell Born in Providence, Galway Kinnell's numerous volumes of poetry include his Selected Poems, for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
	Michael S. Harper Author of more than ten books of poetry including History is Your Heartbeat, winner of the Black Academy of Arts & Letters Award for poetry, Michael S. Harper lives in Barrington, Rhode Island.
	C. D. Wright Among C. D. Wright’s numerous honors are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She served as Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1994 to 1999.
	Other Rhode Island Poets William Allen Ted Berrigan Cathleen Calbert Clark Coolidge Xue Di Karen Donovan Denise Duhamel Forrest Gander Edwin Honig Peter Johnson Jane Lunin Perel Jude Rittenhouse John Tagliabue Keith Waldrop Rosmarie Waldrop

Literary organizations & centers

The Pawtucket Arts Council
The Council awards the Galway Kinnell Poetry Prize.

The Providence Athenaeum
Administers the Philbrick Poety Award, presented annually for a short manuscript by a New England poet who has not yet published a book.

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
The State Arts Council supports the work of individual artists through its fellowship program, including a Fellowship in Poetry.

	Rhode Island is a poetic kind of state. A drive through south county in July or apple country in the fall will thaw a frozen brain and make even the most tv-addled reach for the right string of words to describe . . . Since the days of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams we have been home to an astonishing variety of cranks, geniuses and poets, both the published and unpublished kind. A real rogue's island. The fact is, every one of us is a poet. Most of us just choose not to bother getting it down on paper. From "Rhode Island Is a Poetic Kind of State" by Tom Chandler


	Poems about Rhode Island

	Jerimoth Hill by Tom Chandler You will not recognize any bald knob of granite...


	Literary journals & small presses

	Burning Deck Press Founded by poet Rosemary Waldrop, Burning Deck offers new poetry titles as well as signed, limited editions and out-of-print first editions. Lost Roads Press Lost Roads Publishers is co-edited by poets Forrest Gander and C. D. Wright. The present focus of the press is contemporary American poetry. Oat City Press Printers and publishers of limited-edition poetry and short prose chapbooks and broadsides. Oat City Press publishes the triannual Paragraph magazine. 3rd bed A journal of poetry and fiction based in Central Falls, 3rd Bed "takes humor seriously." They also have a books imprint.


	Writing programs & colonies

	Brown University Offers an M.F.A. in creative writing; undergraduates may apply for the Honors Program or Capstone Projects in Creative Writing. Students publish Clerestory, the Brown/RISD journal of the arts. Roger Williams University Offers a B.F.A. in creative writing and hosts an annual reading series.

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