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First Indian Poet to Record Poems for The Library of Congress to be interviewed by Grace Cavalieri for "The Poet and the Poem" Abhay K. is set to be the first Indian National to record poems for the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The SAARC award winner is known as the premier literary flag-bearer of contemporary Indian poetry. He has published several collections including the acclaimed work The Seduction of Delhi. We are excited to announce that, during his visit, Abhay K. will be interviewed by Grace Cavalieri for her radio show "The Poet and The Poem." Mr. K. will join the ranks … [Read more...]

The Poet and The Poem is a radio show and poetry program hosted by poet and playwright, Grace Cavalieri. For over 40 years, TPaTP has been broadcast from the library of congress, and since 1977, Grace has interviewed every US Poet Laureate to hold office.  On "The Poet and the Poem" Grace examines just that, the poetry and the poet. Each show is an interview with an important poet, national or international, and each interview a mix of questions pertaining to the poet's life, anything from literary inspirations to childhood romances. Thanks to Grace's disarming personality and acute questions, … [Read more...]

  Grace Cavalieri reads "Safety" "The poet Grace Cavalieri is a…truly generous friend of poetry and poets. In her writing and all she does her large-minded generosity shines." Robert Pinsky In the folds and on the back cover of Other Voices, Other Lives, sits a few very special drawings —a rose, the dome of the capital building— by sculptor Kenneth Flynn, Grace's late husband. They were sketches made whenever Ken was waiting for Grace to return, and so he dubbed the series "Waiting for Grace." It makes sense then, since the sketches are rough, not overwrought, but meaningfully simple, … [Read more...]

  Friday, Nov 2nd, 5:30pm Come join Grace who will be featured along with her legacy book Other Voices, Other Lives at the 41st annual National Press Club Book Fair and Author Night. There will be reading, mingling, and basking in an effulgent spirit of Word-Breath! Come meet The Real Author! The Capitol region’s premiere holiday book event is back for the 41st year! The National Press Club Journalism Institute is once again partnering with landmark local book seller Politics & Prose for a night of pols, pundits and prose. Authors will be on hand to talk to their fans and … [Read more...]

An Interview with Grace Cavalieri Senior Editor of December Literary Magazine, Ron A. Austin, sat down with Grace Cavalieri for an exciting and rapid fire (if, sadly, slim) look at the author behind Other Voices, Other Lives, the second installment in ASP's Legacy Series. Read the whole interview here An Excerpt: DECEMBER How do your personal experiences manifest in your work? When, if ever, do you feel the need to adjust things in your work (settings, characters, etc.) to protect people in your life? CAVALIERI Great question as it hinges on the moral life of the writer. I … [Read more...]

Grace Cavalieri Reads, "Work is My Secret Lover" The poet Grace Cavalieri is a truly generous friend of poetry and poets. In her writing and all she does her large-minded generosity shines. Robert Pinsky Grace Cavalieri reads poetry just as though she were speaking then with Pinsky, Dove, or Solari, and she speaks just like she were reading you a poem-- with some verses left blank you ought to fill in yourself. In "Work is My Secret Lover" you meet a Grace who is excited to tell you about what she is hiding from you, about how, even now as you talk, she is observing, listening, feeling … [Read more...]

Grace Cavalieri on Fred Rogers Won't You Be My Neighbor is a new documentary focusing on the life and career of everyone's favorite friend and TV personality, Fred Rogers, AKA Mr. Rogers. For an op-ed about the still rippling cultural impact of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood which ran for over 40 years, Kathi Wolfe turned to Grace Cavalieri who befriended Fred Rogers while she was working as the associate director of children’s programming at PBS. Though Grace only gets a line it is one which helps to answer an important question: just who is this Fred guy anyway when without the set, the … [Read more...]

Come see Grace Cavalieri read from Other Voices, Other Lives and indulge in pickliz and plantains at the Port-au-Prince in Silver Spring, MD. As part of their ongoing series "Poetry at the Port" Grace will be reading on Monday August 20th from 7-8:30. Hope to see you there! Hear Grace read "Work is my Secret Lover" Work is my Secret Lover … [Read more...]

5 Plays from the Contemporary American Theater Festival Reviewed by Grace Cavalieri The inimitable Grace Cavalieri, a dramatist herself, returned from the 28th season of the Contemporary American Theater Festival with a lot to chew on. The plays this year moved through an astounding breadth of topics from race, gender, and water politics in a post-apocalyptic world (Thirst), to ruminations on history featuring a soviet spy with an eidetic memory (Memoirs of a Forgotten Man). For the very fact that the plays were so strong this year and varied so much, The Contemporary American Theater … [Read more...]

Grace Cavalieri, her great interview with the late Donald Hall, CATF criticism and more Grace’s longtime talk series, The Poet and The Poem, broadcast from The Library of Congress, is being gradually released for free to iTunes. There are currently over a dozen interviews available on iTunes, including poets Tracy K. Smith and Rita Dove. More are being added each month; but, the whole series is available in unabridged form from within the sublimely gargantuan archive of Library of Congress. Her interview with Donald Hall is available here. Eva Brann is here, Louise Gluck here. If you love … [Read more...]

The Real Author By Grace Cavalieri There’s a real author and an implied author behind every book. The real author of Other Voices, Other Lives is just me, in Annapolis, with my cat, sitting in p.j.s watching trash TV. The implied author is a feminist, creator of women’s stories, somewhat irreverent, sassy, sexy, restorer of characters in history, experimenter with language and form, and mythmaker. It’s so great to have a front (wo)man writing for me. But every piece is, of course, informed by the life lived by the real author I worried to a friend: “But readers will think this book is too … [Read more...]