Grace Cavalieri

The Poet and The Poem

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Refresh your life with THE POET AND THE POEM. Hear America’s most beloved poets in reading and conversation. Award winning poet/host Grace Cavalieri presents poets reading their work and talking about their art. After 41 years consecutive on public radio, cited by The Encyclopedia of Broadcasting for longevity, THE POET AND THE POEM has made history for one reason: It’s powerful. Voted top in the nation for ENTERTAINMENT IN MEDIA by The National Commission On Working Women, ALL NEW 30-minute shows are now available. (Made possible by donors McNeil and Shashaani.)

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Grace Cavalieri

Episodes

Maria Mazziotti Gillan 21.03.2022 34:51

Director of the N.J. Paterson Poetry Center, poet/painter/teacher.

Miho Kinnas 06.03.2022 37:31

A poet and translator of Japanese poetry with cross cultural perspectives.

Vailes Shepperd 27.02.2022 32:13

This debut novel features a mother with multiple personalities on a backdrop of African American folklife.

George Ella Lyon 16.02.2022 31:21

Former Kentucky Poet Laureate teaches how to tell the truth in poetry.

Eva Brann 22.01.2022 49:17

Philosopher Brann celebrates writing two groundbreaking books this year at age 93.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 21.11.2021 28:16

Poet, Photographer, Musician, premieres his new book CRANK SHAPED NOTES.

J.P. Dancing Bear 13.11.2021 33:20

The editor of VERSE DAILY has 16 books of his poetry; and 15,000 poems written to others on Facebook.

Anne Harding Woodworth 13.11.2021 29:54

A study in beauty and form, Anne shows the lyric in poetry.

Willie Perdomo 13.11.2021 38:35

New York state's new Poet Laureate brings awards to Latin Hip Hop poetry.

Lenny DellaRocca 19.09.2021 35:47

Lenny LaRooca publishes the South Florida Poetry Journal.

David Keplinger 19.09.2021 56:39

Award- winning David Keplinger premieres a new book, "The World To Come."

Sandra Yannone 19.09.2021 40:07

Producer of "Cultivating Voices" reads from her debut collection "Boats For Women."

Jiwon Choi 27.08.2021 28:49

Reading and conversation with the author of, "I Used To Be Korean."

Rion Amilcar Scott 27.08.2021 29:14

Award winning fiction writer and author of short stories reads and discusses his work.

Jeanne Murray Franklin 27.08.2021 31:30

A daughter collects a Family Book of Memory to bring her Mother alive.

Sandra Beasley 01.08.2021 35:59

Beasley's new book is "Ready to Explode." She hold 12 poetry awards.

Fleda Brown 01.08.2021 28:32

Fleda Brown's tenth collection of poems, Flying Through a Hole in the Storm (2021) won the Hollis Summers Prize from Ohio University Press. Earlier poems can be found in The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems, chosen by Ted Kooser for the University of Nebraska poetry series in 2017. Her work has appeared three times in The Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak P...

Terri Cross Davis 01.08.2021 32:09

The author of two award-winning books of poems, the latest, "A More Perfect Union."

Y S Fing 16.06.2021 34:04

Y S Fing is the author of "Perdition," where the vulgar is divine, updating Dante's "Inferno."

Paul Bartlett 08.06.2021 35:51

Baltimore's Top chef is also a poet, talking of food and words.

Cornelius Eady 08.06.2021 40:25

Poet/songwriter Cornelius Eady, co-founder of CAVE CANEM.

Maggie Doherty 08.06.2021 29:20

Maggie Doherty is winner of the 15th National Marfield Award for Writing in The Arts (nonfiction) "The Equivalents."

Jehanne Dubrow 05.05.2021 34:31

Raised by Diplomats, author of nine books of poems; holds 12 national awards in poetry.