LIFE UPON THE WICKED STAGE: A Memoir - Tapa blanda

This book chronicles a career in writing poetry, broadcasting, publishing, teaching, and writing for theater. The book notes important events that have made life so colorful and enjoyable, including anecdotes about the Poets Laureate of the U.S. I've interviewed for radio. Memory is not chronological and so neither are the chapters in this memoir, I wish each chapter would be read like a discrete essay, for chronology is not the book's purpose. I cross back and forth across time to capture the past as it comes to me. -Grace Cavalieri.

Grace Cavalieri is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, including children's books. Her plays include off-Broadway productions. She's also written texts and lyrics performed for opera, television, and film. Grace teaches poetry workshops throughout the country at numerous colleges. She produced and hosted "The Poet and the Poem," weekly, on WPFW-FM (1977-1997) presenting 2,000 poets to the nation. She now presents this series to public radio 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, the American Association of University Women, and more. She writes full-time in Annapolis, Maryland, where she lives with her husband, sculptor Kenneth Flynn. They have four grown daughters. Sabine Pascarelli lives in Tuscany with her husband and two sons. She grew up in Germany where she earned a degree in German language and literature at Dortmund University. She is an author of children's literature and has won a fiction award from La Spezia, Italy. Her most recent book is Glenscheck & Co. Pascarelli has published her poems in various anthologies in both Italian and English. As a translator of English, Italian, and German, she currently translates for the historic resort Montegufoni in Montagnana.