Ada Books
717 Westminster Street
Providence, RI
(401)432-6222

Barrington Books
184 County Rd.
Barrington, RI 02806
(401) 245-7925

Books on the Square
471 Angell Street
Providence, RI 02906
(401) 331-9097

Brown University Bookstore
244 Thayer Street
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-3168

Cellar Stories Book Store
111 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI
(401)521-2665

Paper Nautilus Books Wayland Square
5 South Angell
Providence, RI
(401)521-5533

Other Tiger
90 High Street
Westerly, RI 02891
(401) 596-2200

Symposium Books240 Westminster Street
Providence, RI
(401) 273-7900

Lisa Starr
Lisa Starr is a two-time recipient of the Rhode Island Fellowship for Poetry. In her capacity as Poet Laureate, Starr is generating a statewide poetry pen-pal system which creates and then partners writing circles among student and elderly communities around the state. Her collections of poetry include Mad With Yellow (2009), This Place Here (2001), and Days of Dogs and Driftwood (1993). Starr is the founder and director of the Block Island Poetry Project, a writing series she operates from her home.

The Pawtucket Arts Council
The Pawtucket Arts Council was incoporated in August, 1975 as a non-profit corporation for the purposes of providing arts activities and also arts education. 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 Center for the Book
The Rhode Island Center for the Book was established in 2003, and is an affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. It was created to celebrate reading, writing, making and sharing books across Rhode island, and is a cooperative effort of many Rhode Island readers, writers, publishers, librarians, educators and book artists. Signature programs include Reading Across Rhode Island; Letters About Literature, through which schoolchildren write letters to their favorite author; Rhode Island BookLinks, an online guide to the Rhode Island book community; and Arts of the Book, an annual event or activity concerned with the artistic or physical aspects of the book, such as printing, binding and illustration.

The Arts and Cultural Alliance of Newport County
Formed in 1991 by artists, organizations and concerned citizens to promote art and culture in Newport County. Representing the shared interests of hundreds of individuals and 15 non-profit cultural organizations of the County, the Alliance aims to enhance the quality of life in Newport County for both residents and visitors by cultivating a healthy cultural environment. The Alliance works with the Newport Convention and Visitors Bureau (NCCVB) to promote the arts for visitors to our community.

New Urban Arts
A nationally recognized interdisciplinary arts studio for high school students and emerging artists in Providence, Rhode Island. It provides studio, exhibition space, and mentoring for young artists who explore the visual, performing, and literary arts through yearlong free out-of-school programs. Founded in 1997, New Urban Arts serves 150 high school students in the Providence Public High Schools and 20 artists each year.

Rhode Island Citizens for the Arts
Since 1999, Rhode Island Citizens for the Arts has been working actively to help protect and advance funding and other benefits for artists and arts organizations in Rhode Island. It strives to understand the needs of Rhode Island artists and arts organizations, act as a voice for the arts community in front of legislature, and further raise awareness and support among the community-at-large.

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

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.

Many Birches Press
Founded to help artists and writers publish high quality books. Many Birches Press publishes the annual art and literary journal, Balancing the Tides—A Newport Journal.

Oat City Press
Printers and publishers of limited-edition poetry and short prose chapbooks and broadsides. Oat City Press publishes the triannual Paragraph magazine.

Bryant Literary Review
An international magazine of poetry and fiction published annually in May. For more information, contact blr@bryant.edu.

The Poet's Press
This press, now based in Providence, Rhode Island, was founded by Brett Rutherford in 1971 in New York City, and has now published more than 175 titles. Its involvement with Rhode Island arts groups has resulted in four anthologies to date, as well as the first republication of Providence poet Sarah Helen Whitman's poetry since 1916.

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.

Rhode Island College
Rhode Island College offers a B.A. and an M.A. in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing. At both the undergraduate and graduate levels, students can study and write poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction in workshops and literature classes that focus on the components of craft, questions of genre, and intricacies of art. Following coursework in Creative Writing, literature, and literary theory, graduate students complete a Master’s Thesis in Creative Writing under the guidance of one of four full-time faculty members, all of whom are published authors.

Block Island Poetry Project
The Block Island Poetry Project is a vibrant, multi-dimensional learning experience that blends poetry workshops with music, yoga, and dance. Beginning in April of 2004, to coincide with National Poetry Month, RI Poet Laureate Lisa Starr brought her first crop of poets to the island for four long weekends of workshops and readings. The Block Island Poetry Project has attracted poets like like Marie Howe, Robert Bly, Tony Hoagland, Coleman Barks, Li-Young Li, Fran Quinn, Nick Flynn, Jeff Davis, Michael Brown, Valerie Lawson, and Kim Addonizio.

Rhode Island Writers' Circle
Founded in 1993, the Circle is a nonprofit, charitable center for emerging and professional writers. The Circle provides workshops in fiction, nonfiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, playwriting, poetry, screenwriting, writing for children, and independent publishing. Competitive workshops, visiting authors, and public events take place in Newport, Providence, and Warwick, RI.