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A Minor History of Police Work

An encounter with the police and a Chinese-American family's sense of "failing in a loud and crazy time" are the subjects of Tina Cane's stark poem.

March 20, 2017 by Tina Cane Leave a Comment

A Minor History of Police Work

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Appears in Once More with Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017).

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About Tina Cane

Tina Cane serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, where
she lives with her husband and their three children. She is also
the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI and is an instructor with the writing community, Frequency Providence. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Literary Review, Two Serious Ladies, Tupelo Quarterly, Jubliat and The Common. She also produces, with Atticus Allen, the podcast, Poetry Dose.

Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press, 2008), Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz (Skillman Avenue Press, 2016) and Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017). In 2016, Tina received the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry, from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.