I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s. by Grace Cavalieri

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.

Grace Cavalieri

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As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

Grace Cavalieri

brain children way

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

Grace Cavalieri

safe writing world

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so... by Grace Cavalieri

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

Grace Cavalieri

writing character book

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

Grace Cavalieri

creativity cutting rivers

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read thei... by Grace Cavalieri

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

Grace Cavalieri

poet energy listening

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

Grace Cavalieri

sacred hearing doe