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Jane Blue "Susan Kelly-DeWitt's A Camelia for Judy"
Alexander Long "Christopher Buckley's Fall From Grace"
Evan Oakley "Veronica Patterson's Swan, What Shores"
J.T. Cavender "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
Ernie Wormwood "Temporary Apprehensions" by Patric Pepper
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
Ernie Wormwood "Falling Into Velázquez" by Mary Kaiser
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 "All That Lies Between Us" by Maria Mazziotti
Grace Cavalieri "Before and After the Fall" by Sandor Csoori, translated by Len  Roberts
Ed Zahniser "The Blue Train to America" by Barbara F. Lefcowitz
Mary Morris "Children Having Trouble with Meat" by Christine Hamm
"OCHO #9" from MIPOesias Magazine
"Best of Café’ Café’, Summer 2007" from MIPesias Print Publication
Sonja James "Resurrection of the Dust" by John McKernan
Hope Maxwell-Snyder "The Language of Loss" by Mariela Griffor
Hope Maxwell-Snyder "A Snake Charmer" by Paulo Henriques Britto
Barbara Goldberg "The Outernationale" by Peter Gizzi
Amy King "Next Life" by Rae Armantrout
Ernie Wormwood "Making a Poem: Some Thoughts
About Poetry and the People Who Write It
" by Miller Williams
Bernadette Geyer "Broken Hallelujahs, poems" by Sean Thomas Dougherty "
Ed Zahniser "Whiskey in the Garden of Eden" by Sarah Browning
Bernadette Geyer "Of Whiskey and Winter " by Peter Connors
Grace Cavalieri "OCHO 12-A Composite Review" by six poets
Andrew Kaufman "A Secret Room in Fall" by Maria Terrone
Ethan Fischer "Kimnama" and "More Than Anything" by Kim Roberts and Hiram Larew
Whitney M. Smith "Gentling the Bones" by Katherine E. Young
Sonja James "Little Boat" by Jean Valentine
Peter Klappert "Legacy" by Richard Harteis
Constance MacDonald
and William Scott

"The Steiney Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas"
by Karren LaLonde Alenier

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 of two books by
Ernie Wormwood
"The Fortunate Islands and Mystery School"
by Susan Kelly-Dewitt and by Bruce MacKinnon
A review by Laura Orem "Gargoyle 52" Produced by Richard Peabody
A review by Mary Morris "When I Said Goodbye" by Didi Menendez
A review by Grace Cavalieri "Lady of the Snakes" by Rachel Pastan

The Editor's Showcase

These reviews can only be found on this site!
  Sean Reagan "Reading Berryman to the Dog"
  James R. Sims "Being a Father"
  A Review by
Norman Lang Siegel
"Everything Else in the World "
by Stephen Dunn
  A Review by
Judith McCombs
"Tin Mines & Concubines: Malaysian Fictions"
by Hilary Tham
  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


Best Picks by Grace Cavalieri

"Their Other Side: Six American Women & the Lure of Italy,
 Essays by Helen Barolini"

Helen Barolini
"Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest" B.H. Fairchild
"Italian Women In Black Dresses" Maria Mazziotti Gillan
"The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn" Jean Nordhaus
"Three New Collections of Poetry from Wesleyan University Press"  
"The Wished-for Country" Wayne Karlin

"Gilbert & Garbo in Love; A Romance in Poems"

Christopher Conlon
"Eight Pale Women" James C. Hopkins
"And We The Creatures" C.J. Sage
"Stolen Moments and other stories" Ariel Smart
"Someplace Like This" Renee Ashley
"Italian American Writers on New Jersey" Jennifer Gillan, et al.
"Gleanings" Vivan Shipley
"The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives" Fleda Brown
"Affection for the Unknowable" Len Anderson
"Lessons from a Castle" Jean Emerson
"Blood Autumn (Autunno di Sangue)" Daniela Gioseffi
And very honorably mentioned…
"The Palace of Ashes" Sherry Fairchok
"Between The Blast Furnaces And the Dizziness, 
  A Selection of Poems: 1970-1999
"
Milo De Angelis
"The Bard on the Brain" Paul M. Matthews, M.D. Jeffrey McQuain, Ph.D.
"The Low End of Higher Things" David Clewell
"Show And Tell, New and Selected Poems" Jim Daniels
"De/Compositions" W.D. Snodgrass
"To Sound Like Yourself " W.D. Snodgrass
"Rollercoaster" Miles David Morre
"Children of the Moon" Sonja James
"Shift" Tammy Vitale
"Gilgamesh" Yusef Komunyakaa
Chad Gracia

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.

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