Grace Cavalieri

Contemporary American Theater celebrates thirty-three years in Shepherdstown, W.V.

Grace Cavalieri — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:33:20 +0000

Contemporary American Theater celebrates thirty-three years in Shepherdstown, W.V. Grace Cavalieri Mon, 07/10/2023 - 12:33

July's Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University

Grace Cavalieri — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:02:18 +0000

July's Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University Grace Cavalieri Tue, 07/12/2022 - 16:02

WHAT THE PSYCHIC SAID

Carolyn Grassi — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:43:44 +0000

WHAT THE PSYCHIC SAID Carolyn Grassi Thu, 08/26/2021 - 08:43

Grace's latest book, What the Psychic Said

Grace Cavalieri — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 21:12:07 +0000

Grace Cavalieri

2020-04-01

Here is a poem from the book:

Poem in dialogue with Dan Murano’s cover photo

Credit: Poet Trees, 2019

GUARDIAN OF TIME

I don’t know how I knew this –

This deepening love – subjectivity of experience –

The desolation of the prairie rabbit –

How the sky and the air can turn pink

For no reason.

We would not have seen the pink

Unless there were sun beaming down, its

Wishes closing in, guarding our treasures,

Answering the question:

How to love without fear

Just look at the ball of sun behind the tree

Now a deepening orange

Now a fanning behind the branches

Like images in God’s dream—

Did you think there was an easier access to happiness?

--Grace Cavalieri

Grace Cavalieri, with paper and pen, her imagination wanders fresh and bold, leaving us poetry for our comprehension and delight, which has a life longer than our own. - Janice F. Booth

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“WORDS MATTER, 2019”

Grace Cavalieri — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:12:40 +0000

“WORDS MATTER, 2019” Grace Cavalieri Mon, 07/08/2019 - 09:12

Sign in the Six O’Clock Sky by Arnold Schulman

Grace Cavalieri — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:46:03 +0000

28th Season: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL

Grace Cavalieri — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:25:14 +0000

28th Season: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL Grace Cavalieri Tue, 07/10/2018 - 18:25

OTHER VOICES, OTHER LIVES: An Appreciation

Richard Harteis — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 05:08:18 +0000

OTHER VOICES, OTHER LIVES: An Appreciation Richard Harteis Mon, 02/12/2018 - 00:08

Letter from Puerto Rico

Grace Cavalieri — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:01:43 +0000

Grace Cavalieri

2017-08-23

Letter from Puerto Rico

If patience were a ray or sweet word
It would never fail here
The keen bone of quiet is like faith
Listen to the heat
Feel the violet view
Cold motion has no reward
For Winter's just a painting on the wall
And Spring's wind is always perpendicular
To time
Even if Lucille got the job you wanted
On the 5th floor with the Big Four
Shaking hands in her yellow suit
And chic bobbed hair
She’s dead now with unnarrowing
Limits of grass
And the song succeeds with blackbirds
And promise
Outlasting music's endnote.

Credit: Plume Magazine

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Language Lesson

Grace Cavalieri — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:09:42 +0000

Grace Cavalieri

2017-07-05

Language Lesson

It was a day much like this,
grey, with drizzle,
my mother took me visiting,
which was a big event –
She didn’t drive a car,
seldom went out.
How did we get there?
My father, perhaps, who
worked in a bank nearby.
He must have dropped us
by this large white house
with grand pillars.

I can’t imagine why
we were wanted there
but I met a boy my age.
I suppose that was it.
Get the toddlers together,
ready to learn to play.

I assessed the toys,
and took my pick,
a brand new trike, and
oh how it went,
as shiny as it looked.
My new playmate ran crying
filled with envy and
complaint
Me wants the bike.
Me wants it now.

I stopped. The wheels froze
on the rug as I looked
at my foe
“ME wants the bike?”
I felt the sweet pleasure of
superiority, the first ache
of it, age three.
There would be no contest. I
could play as long as I liked.
I had him by the pronoun.
It was the happiest day of my life.