Poetry. HOW WE SAVED THE CITY examines gentrification, ghosts, and concurrent and successive cities in Kate Schapira's chosen home of Providence, RI. Through a range of formal strategies and imagined dialogues, these poems raise urgent and timely questions: who decides what a city and its people need? Who has power, in various forms, to make real their versions of the city and themselves? Racketeers, artists, criminals, activists, profiteers and lovers cross and recross, build and rebuild the contested terrain of property, gender, habitation and change.

Author City: PROVIDENCE, RI USA

Kate Schapira is the author of THE SOFT PALACE (Horse Less Press, 2012), HOW WE SAVED THE CITY (Stockport Flats, 2012), THE BOUNTY: FOUR ADDRESSES (Noemi Press, 2011), TOWN (Factory School, 2010) and several chapbooks from Flying Guillotine Press, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Cy Gist Press, Rope- A-Dope Press and horse less press. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she co- curates the Publicly Complex Reading Series and writes, teaches, and works as a Writer in the Schools.