April 2, 21010
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Calvert Library Prince Frederick who will be hosting poet, playwright and radio show host, Grace Cavalieri on Thursday, April 29 at 7:00pm. She will be featuring her new book of poems, Sounds Like Something I Would Say but you will hear a bit from her other books as well. Given that it is National Poetry Month, you should also come prepared to do a little writing and sharing yourself. Bring your pencil and your muse.
Cavalieri is a multi-talented poet. In 2009 she produced “The Poet’s Cookbook” with Tuscan recipes and food poems by 28 poets. She is the author of 22 produced plays and she’s written texts/lyrics for two produced operas. She founded “The Poet and the Poem” on public radio, and now produces the series from the Library of Congress, in its 33rd year on-air. The series holds the CPB Silver Medal. Her book Anna Nicole:Poems (Goss 183:: Casa Menendez) holds The 2009 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. Her 2004 book What I Would Do For Love: Poems in the Voice of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) won a Paterson Poetry Prize. Her play based on this book, “Hyena in Petticoats,” received its premiere reading at NYC Public Library, 2007. Her play “Quilting the Sun” was presented at the Smithsonian in 2005, and received its world premiere production, 2007, Centre Stage, S.C. It received a key to the city of Greensville for the play’s depiction of ex-slave quiltmaker Harriet Powers. Cavalieri’s last collection of poems, Water on the Sun (2006) won the Bordighera Poetry Award and was listed on Pen Center’s Best Books of 2006 List.
For more information, call the Calvert Library Prince Frederick at 410-535-0291 or 301-855-1862.
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