Grace Cavalieri's most recent book of poems is Sounds Like Something I Would Say (2010). Her 22nd play, Lena's Quilt, premiered Feb and March in NYC museums and libraries. She founded and still produces public radio's The Poet and the Poem,
now in its 33rd year, now from the Library of Congress. She recently produced The Poet's Cookbook (2009). She is book review editor for The Montserrat Review and a poetry columnist for MiPOradio. Her play in development, on Anna Nicole Smith, is Blonde Ambition.
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Mozart in the Morning for Lucille Clifton, 1936-2010
The moon reappeared last night as though nothing had happened and in the morning I played Mozart because she loved fancy music as well as jazz. When we are tired of forgiving, we can think about the vivacious differences she showed us – that from the heart of darkness someone is always named Light. Today let's eat hotdogs and drink coffee in her name so under each obliging moon a simplicity of language, the grandeur of messages like Mozart will go on.