Maryland’s 10th Poet Laureate, Grace Cavalieri is the author of 26 plays and 28 collections of her poems. Grace’s unparalleled skill as an interviewer has been honed over the nearly 50 years interviewing every U.S. Poet Laureate and other renowned poets for her radio/podcast The Poet & the Poem from the Library of Congress. Here is her poem for What’s Up? Media.—Janice F. Booth
Simple Acts
It was getting in a hot car and driving up the bright street turning left I think it was the thought of cooking a turkey for the family and the children looking friendly climbing off the school bus
It was coffee by the pool a long red dress the plans for a wedding It was the bird staying still on the branch long enough to see.
Grace Cavalieri
From OWNING THE NOT SO DISTANT WORLD (Blue Light Press)
