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Grace Cavalieri

Poet Laureate of Maryland 2019

Grace Cavalieri received a BS in Education from New Jersey College and an MA in creative writing from Goddard University. The author of over forty books of poetry and plays, including most recently What The Psychic Said (Goss publications, 2020) and Other Voices, Other Lives (Alan Squire Publishing, 2017).

Grace holds The Associated Writing Program’s George Garrett Award, as well as the Pen-Fiction, the Allen Ginsberg, Bordighera Poetry, and Paterson Poetry awards, the “Annie” Award, The inaugural Folger Shakespeare Library Columbia Award, The National Award from The Commission On Working Women, and The CPB Silver Medal.

She founded and produces “the Poet and the Poem” for public radio, now from the Library of Congress. In 2019, she was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Cavalieri currently serves as the tenth poet laureate of Maryland.

Grace Cavalieri
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Poet Laureate of Maryland

Poet Laureate of Maryland

In 2019, Grace Cavalieri was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Cavalieri launched a podcast that will feature Maryland poets and have Maryland newspapers feature a monthly column with poems by Maryland poets.