Grace Cavalieri

Grace Cavalieri (born 1932) is an award-winning American poet, playwright and radio host of "The Poet and the Poem" from the Library of Congress.

Education

 * M.A. - Creative Writing & Education: Goddard University, Plainfield, VT, 1975
 * B.S. - Education: English and History, New Jersey College at Trenton, 1954
 * Post-Graduate Studies, Graduate School of English, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1975-1976
 * Graduate Studies in Education, Graduate School of Education, Rollins University, Orlando, FL, 1962-1963

Personal Life
She lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband, sculptor Kenneth Flynn. They have four grown daughters: Cynthia, Colleen, Shelley and Angela; and four grandchildren: Rachel, Elizabeth, Sean and Joseph.

Literary career
Cavalieri has published 16 books and chapbooks of poetry, plus fiction. She has written 26 produced plays, and texts for 2 produced operas. She co-founded the Washington Writers Publishing House with John McNally in 1976 and served on its editorial board from 1976 to 1982. In addition, in 1979 she founded The Bunny and the Crocodile Press/Forest Woods Media Productions, Inc., a publishing house and media production company..[3] As of 2012, she still operates the small press which is actively publishing. She was book editor of The Montserrat Review until 2011.[4]She is poetry columnist for MiPOradio and on the staff of Poets & Writers for MiPOesias. She writes a Poetry Feature entitled “Exemplars,” reviewing books—a monthly column published by the Washington Independent Review of Books (2011-2012).

Radio career
Cavalieri has had a long-term connection with public radio and public radio programming. She was a founder of radio station WPFW-FM in Washington D.C. For 35 years, she has produced the radio show "The Poet and the Poem", which is heard nationally on public radio stations around the country. The show is currently produced at the Library of Congress. In addition, she was an Associate Director of Programming at the Public Broadcasting System for five years and subsequently served as program officer of the National Endowment for the Humanities media program from 1982 to 1988.

Recognition
Cavalieri has received numerous literary awards. Highlights include:


 * The Paterson Literary Review Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to Poetry
 * The Columbia Award
 * The Pen-Syndicated Fiction Award
 * The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award
 * Bordighera Poetry Award for Water on the Sun
 * Paterson Poetry Prize for What I Would Do for Love: Poems in the Voice of Mary Wollstonecraft
 * The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry
 * The National Endowment for the Arts
 * The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Medal
 * The National Commission on Working Women
 * The American Association of University Women
 * The Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for Anna Nicole: Poems
 * The Dragonfly Press Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement
 * The DC Poet Laureate Special Award in Poetry
 * The DC Public Humanities Award
 * The West Virgina Women in Arts Award

She has enjoyed several state arts and humanities council awards and fellowships. She received the inaugural Columbia Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library Poetry Committee for "significant contribution to poetry."

Poetry

 * 2011 - Millie's Sunshine Tiki Villas: A Novella in Verse (Goss 183: Casa Menendez)
 * 2010 - Sounds Like Something I Would Say (Goss 183: Casa Menendez)
 * 2010 - Navy Wife  (Goss 183: Casa Menendez)
 * 2008 - Anna Nicole: Poems (Goss183: Casa Menendez)
 * 2006 - Water On The Sun: Acqua Sul Sole (translated by Maria Enrico) - (Bordighera, Inc.)
 * 2004 - What I Would Do For Love (Jacaranda Press)
 * 2002 - Greatest Hits, 1975-2000 (Pudding House Press)
 * 2001 - Cuffed Frays and Other Works (Argonne Press)
 * 1999 - Sit Down, Says Love (Argonne Hotel Press)
 * 1998 - Heart on a Leash (Red Dragon Press)
 * 1998 - Pinecrest Rest Haven (Word Works)
 * 1995 - Migrations : Poems with Mary Ellen Long (Book Distribution, In Support)
 * 1990 - Trenton (Belle Mead Press)
 * 1986 - Bliss (Hillmunn Roberts Publishing)
 * 1979 - Swan Research (Word Works)
 * 1976 - Body Fluids (Bunny and the Crocodile Press)
 * 1975 - Why I Cannot Take a Lover - (Washington Writers Publishing House)

Fiction

 * True Stories : Fiction by Uncommon Women (Red Dragon Press, 1997).

Edited volumes

 * 1997 - Cycles of the Moon Vine by Jean Emerson (Forest Woods Media Productions)
 * 1992 - WPFW 89.5FM Poetry Anthology: The Poet and the Poem (Bunny and the Crocodile Press)
 * 2009 - The Poet’s Cookbook: Recipes from Tuscany with poems from 28 American poets (translator, Sabine Pascarelli) (Bordighera Press)
 * 2010 – The Poet’s Cookbook: Recipes from Germany with poems from 33 American Poets (Translator, Sabine Pascarelli) (Goethe-Institut & Forest Woods Media)

Produced plays and staged play readings 1966-2011
Anna Nicole: Blonde Glory

Production

Dream Up Festival NYC, August 2011

Reading, Muhlenberg Library, NYC March 2009

Reading, Bethesda MD Writers’ Center, May 2009

Reading full length NYC, March 2011

Scene4:International Magazine of the Arts 2010

Lena’s Quilt

Production:

Harlem Renaissance NYC (museums and libraries) February and March 2010 & 2011

Quilting the Sun

Productions:

Palmetto Theater, ARTWORKS, Beaufort SC 2011

World Premiere Centre Stage, Greenville SC 2007

Jennie & The JuJu Man

Production:

Typewriter Dreams Common Basis Theatre 2003

CUNY Grad Center, NYC Theater Festival 2004

Hyena in Petticoats

Reading, Takoma Park Theater, Maryland March 2010

Staged presentation, NYC Public Library March 2006

Staged Production, Ft. Lewis College CO June 2007

Publication Scene4:International Magazine of the Arts

Passage Grace’s text: MAP

Art, Poetry, Dance Installation, Artposium, Durango CO September 2007 (note: the Corner Theater in Baltimore was started by Ellen Stewart of NYC’s Café La Mama)

The Late and Blooming Early Branch

Productions:

Polemic Theater, Washington DC 1968

Corner Theater, Baltimore MD 1969, 1970

Milford MA High School 1970

William and Mary College, Williamsburg VA 1970

Published:

One Act Publishing Company 1968

Birds That Call Before The Rain

Productions:

Corner Theater, Baltimore MD 1968

Theater Lobby, Washington DC 1969

William and Mary College, VA 1970

The Death Of A Child By Beating Or Not

Production:

Corner Theater, Baltimore MD 1968 & 1970

What Shall We Do Yesterday

Productions:

Corner Theater, Baltimore MD 1968, 1970

Polemic Theater, Washington DC 1969

Towson State College 1970

Trinity University, San Antonio TX 1971

Notre Dame College, Baltimore MD 1970

La Pensee, Seattle WA, 1975-76

Produced for radio, Pacifica network 1977

Published

Heads

Productions:

Notre Dame College, Baltimore MD 1970

The Corner Theater, 1970

Theater Prospect, San Francisco CA 1973

The Planned Escape Of Bonita And Bright

Production:

William and Mary College, VA 1970

Old Favorites

Productions:

The Corner Theater 1971

Washington DC‘s Contemporary Arts Theater 1999

Eleventh Hour Song

The Corner Theater 1971

Smarts

Antioch College, Baltimore MD 1971

Backyard Fun

Upstairs Theater, Columbia MD

Antioch College, Columbia MD (there are 3 Antioch College Centers)

Cuffed Frays

Produced for radio: The Pacifica Network, 1962

For Stage: The Charleston Stage Company, Charleston WV 20001

Published in verse form, Argonne House Press c2001

Best Of Friends (several other places, cities & theaters)

Productions:

College of Notre Dame 1975

Theater Project 1976

Corner Theater 1975

La Pensee Theater, Seattle WA 1975- 76

Moming Theater (Reading) Chicago IL 1977

Production:

(Renamed) The Sticker Tree

Quaigh Theater NYC 1986

Publication:

Scene4:International Magazine of the Arts

Stripping

Reading, The John Houseman Theater NYC 1993

Children's play: In The Land Of Elbows

Webster Grove Children’s Theater, MO 1970

Hush, No One Is Listening

Festival, Religion and Art, Sacramento CA 1970

Published:

Dramatics Magazine c1972

Kauri, 1968

We Regret to Inform You

Productions:

Theater Lobby, Washington DC 1970

Univ of Missouri 1969

Radio Production: Pacifica Network 1977

Published:

Per/Se, The Smith Magazine 1970

Keeper of the Station

Production:

University of Washington, Seattle WA 1966

Published:

Contemporary Drama Service 1970

Kauri 1968

Pinecrest Rest Haven

Production:

The Common Basis Theatre, NYC 2001

Staged Readings:

Clemente del Sole, NYC 1998 The Ice House, Berkeley Springs, WV 1998

The Writer’s Center of Washington DC, Bethesda MD 1998

Audio Production: Tape

Published:

Scene4: International Magazine of the Arts

PEMBROKE Magazine, Univ of NC at Pembroke

Harvest Kitchen

Produced for Radio Pacifica Network 1976

Getting Ready

Production:

The WPA Theater, NYC 1972

String of Pearls (music by Vivian Adelberg Rudow) MONO OPERA, lyrics and text

Production:

The Walters Museum and Gallery, Baltimore MD 1986

Text and Libretto for Opera

Migrations (music by Vivian Adelberg Rudow)

Production:

Franz Bader Gallery, Washington DC 1988

(Partial reading) Loyola College, Baltimore MD 2000

Radio production via NPR satellite 1988, 1989

Pacifica Network, 1988 & 1990

Published:

Vision Library Publications, c1995

Song Cycle

Lyrics for Purple Ice with composer Vivian Adelberg Rudow

Several stages in Baltimore MD

Journey of Waters song, lyrics

Annapolis Chorale and Chamber Music Orchestra w. Composer Rudow

St. Anne’s Church, Annapolis MD 2006

Har Sinai Synagogue, Baltimore MD 2006

Production:

CD’s of Cavalieri/Rudow collaboration (2005-2011)