Pinecrest Rest Haven is a sequence of prose poems depicting the lives of the elderly living in a nursing home.
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In the timely snapshots of the elderly, comedy, tragedy, soap, and theater of the absurd meld in Pinecrest Rest Haven in a heart wrenchingly comic story of couple who court each other, having forgotten they are married.
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Grace Cavalieri is the author of eleven books of poetry and numerous produced plays. Her most recent books is Sit Down, Says Love (Argonne Hotel Press). She's written texts and lyrics performed for opera, stage, and film. Her play, "Pinecrest Rest Haven," was produced in NYC in 2001.
Grace teaches poetry workshops throughout the country and at the Tuscany Arts Retreat in Italy, sponsored by The Word Works. She is on the poetry faculty of St. Mary's College of Southern Maryland. Grace produced and hosted "The Poet and the Poem," weekly, on public radio (1977-1997) presenting 2,000 poets to the nation. She now produces this series once a year from the Library of Congress via NPR satellite.
Grace has received the Pen-Fiction Award, the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Medal, and awards from the National Commission on Working Women, the WV Commission on Women, and The American Association of University Women. She received the inaugural Columbia Merit Award for "significant contribution to poetry."
Grace lives in West Virginia with her husband, sculptor Kenneth Flynn. They have four grown daughters.
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Grace Cavalieri is the author of several books, chapbooks of poetry; and 23 staged plays. She's written texts 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 34th year on-air. Grace's community work on radio 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.Grace is a poetry columnist for MiPOradio. "The Poet's Cookbook; Recipes from Tuscany" (2009 is from Bordighera Press.)"The Poet's Cookbook: Recipes from Germany " is in publication for Fall 2010
www.gracecavalieri.com
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