Grace Cavalieri has compiled her choices for the Best Books of 2014. Check it out here!
| Calder Lowe | “East of the Cookie Tree” by Michael J. Vaughn |
| Calder Lowe | Summer Song |
| Brian Greene | All Visions of Blind Love |
| Grace Cavalieri | WMD: A Memoir |
| Sonja James | The Man Who Got Away |
| Kathie Isaac-Luke | The Light On His Feet |
| Grace Cavalieri | Contemporary American Theater Festival’s 24th Season |
| Jane Blue | A Review of Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s “A Camellia for Judy” |
| Evan Oakley | A Review of Veronica Patterson’s “Swan, What Shores?” |
| J.T. Cavender | Breaking Down the Doors: A Review of James Doyle’s The Silk at Her Throat |
| Grace Cavalieri | “Ego as Beak“ |
| Grace Cavalieri | “Enhanced Gravity—More Fiction by Washingon Area Women” 500pp., $18.95 Edited by Richard Peabody |
| Grace Cavalieri | “Why Speak” by Nathanel Bellows |
| Grace Cavalieri | “Innocence” by Jean Nordhaus |
| Daniela Gioseffi | “75 Poems on Retirement” Edited by Robin Chapman & Judith Strasser |
| Ed Zahniser | “If You’re Not Averse to Comic Verse…” by X. J. Kennedy |
| Mary F. Morris | “Circling Out” by Martin Galvin |
| Grace Cavalieri | “The Matter of the Casket” by Thom Ward |
| Grace Cavalieri | “Reunion” by Fleda Brown |
| Grace Cavalieri | “Before and After the Fall” by Sandor Csoori, translated by Len Roberts |
| Mary F. Morris | “Children Having Trouble with Meat” by Christine Hamm |
| Sonja James | “Resurrection of Dust” by John McKernan |
| Amy King | “Next Life” by Rae Armantrout |
| Bernadette Geyer | “Broken Hallelujahs, poems” by Sean Thomas Dougherty |
| Bernadette Geyer | “Of Whiskey and Winter” by Peter Connors |
| Grace Cavalieri | “OCHO 12-A Composite Review” by six poets |
| Andrew Kauffman | “A Secret Room in Fall” by Maria Terrone |
| Ethan Fischer | “Kimnama” and “More Than Anything” by Kim Roberts and Hiram Larew |
| Sonja James | “Little Boat” by Jean Valentine |
| Peter Klappert | “Legacy” by Richard Harteis |
| Grace Cavalieri | “OCHO 15: A Composite Review” by eight poets |
| Marviin Galvin | “A Slender Grace” by Rod Jellema |
| Composite Review by Seven Writers |
“Against the Grain: The Literary Life of a Poet” – A Memoir by Reed Whittemore |
| A review by Mary Morris | “When I Said Goodbye” by Didi Menendez |
| A review by Grace Cavalieri | “Lady of the Snakes” by Rachel Pastan |
| A review by Mary Morris | “Helen Takes the Stage” The Helen Keller Poems” by Kathi Wolfe |
| A review by Kathie Isaac-Luke | “Discount Fireworks ” by Wendy Taylor Carlisle |
| A review by Mary Morris | “Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors” by Peter Kappert |
| A review by Sonja James | “A Darker, Sweeter String” by Lee Sharkey |
| A review by Judith Harris | “Anna Nicole: POEMS” by Grace Cavalieri |
| A review by Geoffrey Himes | “Lending Her Voice, Anna Nicole: POEMS” by Grace Cavalieri |
| A review by Anne Caston | “Voices” by Lucille Clifton |
| A review by Cheryl A. Townsend | “Voices” by Lucille Clifton |
| A review by Barbara Goldberg | “Sum” by Yonat Hafftka |
| A joint review by Grace Cavalieri and Merrill Leffler | “The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest” edited by Hadley Haden Guest |
| A review by Avideh Shashaani | “Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians around the World” translated by Niloufar Talebi |
| A review by Richard Harteis | “My Vocabulary did This To Me, The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer“ |
| A review by Laura Orem | “Quantum Lyrics by A. Van Jordan, Cradle Song by Stacey Lynn Brown“ |
| A review by Ken Jacobs | “Versed” by Rae Armantrout” |
| A review by Grace Cavalieri | “Soul-Hearted Partnership” by Debra L. Reble, Ph.D. |
| A review by Grace Cavalieri | “War Bird” by David Gewanter |
| A review by Caroline Malone | “The Call: An Anthology of Women’s Writing” edited by Calder Lowe |
| A review by Grace Cavalieri | “Wild Nights, Wild Nights: The Story of Emily Dickinson’s ‘Master,’ Neighbor and Friend and Bridegroom” by Daniela Gioseffi |
| A review by Carlos Reyes | “The Lunatic Moon” by Rafael Jesús González |
| A Commentary by Grace Cavaliari | “What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009” by Maria Mazziotti Gillan |
| A review by Phyllis Williams | “Chrysalides” by Kathie Isaac-Luke |
| Pushpa MacFarlane | “Double Happiness” by Tony Brasunas |
The Editor’s Showcase
These reviews can only be found on this site!
| A Review by Grace Cavalieri | “The Monkey Tribe” by Michael J. Vaughn |
| A Review by Peter Fontaine | “If the Heart is Lean” by Margaret Luongo |
| A Review by Sean Reagan | “Reading Berryman to the Dog“ |
| A Review by Avideh Shashaani | “So What” by Taha Muhammad Ali |
| A Review by Merrill Lefler | “Water on the Sun” by Grace Cavalieri, translated by Maria Enrico |
| A Review by Maria Enrico | “Talismans/Talismani – Poems/Poesie” by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, translation and preface Elizabetta Marino |
| Reviews by Grace Cavalieri | “Books for the Turn of the Year:“ |
| Nora’s Army by Dennis Collins | |
| The Medusa’s Smile by Laura Brylawski-Miller | |
| The Steam Sequence by Carly Sachs | |
| A Review by Sonja James | “And” by Michael Blumenthal |
| A Review by Maureen Thorson | “Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (Airport Novel Musical Poem Painting Film Photo Hallucination Landscape)” by Tan Lin |
| A Review by Dianna Henning | “A Journey of Two Writers-By Heart” authored by: Judith Tannenbaum & Spoon Jackson |
| A Review by Mary Morris | “Something Deeper Happened:Young Voices and the 2008 Election” Avideh Shashaani, Editor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (foreword) |
| A Review by Bill Burman | “Operaville” by Michael J. Vaughn |
| A Review by Mary Morris | “Looking for Don—A Meditation” by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson |
Best Picks by Grace Cavalieri
Grace Cavalieri has authored 14 books and 20 produced plays. She was a founder of radio station WPFW-FM in Washington D.C. Her program ” The Poet and the Poem” has been on public radio for 30 years without interruption, now from the Library of Congress via NPR satellite. She has founded two poetry presses in Washington DC. Grace writes for stage, opera, and radio. Her play, Quilting the Sun enjoyed a staged reading at the Smithsonian Institution, and premieres at Centre Stage, S.C. in 2007.
