Writing For My Life – A Poetry Workshop with Seniors
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Lord Baltimore Hotel
Hanover Suite A – Mezzanine
PARKING
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This talk will explore former Maryland Poet Laureate GRACE CAVALIERI’s personal beliefs in writing as a life force, in the value of poetry, and energy as the conduit for creating. A very accessible exercise will be given to show that everyone can write their story. The hour-long workshop will include time to talk, create, and share a successful creative experience. Grace has written a book on creative writing and invented, among other methods, “The elevator poem” and the 10-word experiment. Each is time-honored and has ignited thousands of beginning writers. Senior writers looking for inspiration and fellowship are encouraged to attend. Grace Cavalieri is Maryland’s tenth Poet Laureate. She is the founder/producer of public radio’s “The Poet and The Poem,” celebrating 48 years on-air in 2025.
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Grace Cavalieri was Maryland’s tenth Poet Laureate (2018-2024). Her recent poetry books are I Haiku too, Owning The Not So Distant World, The Long Game, Poems Selected & New, and The Word Works. Forthcoming is “Fables From Italy And Beyond” (Bodighera, 2025). She has published 27 other books of poems. She founded and still produces “the Poet and the Poem” for public radio, now from the Library of Congress, celebrating 48 years on-air. Cavalieri holds two Allen Ginsberg Awards: the Bordighera Poetry Award and the CPB Silver Medal. She’s an Academy of American Poets Fellow. She’s written poems and plays produced on American stages. Women in history are her specialty, and the last play produced was “Quilting The Sun” about ex-slave quiltmaker Harriet Powers. 2017 NYC. The last 25 years of her podcasts have been sent to the moon by NASA on Lunar Codex.
gracecavalieri.com
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CityLit Project in partnership with Lord Baltimore Hotel and Red Emma’s present CityLit Festival: Our Stories Give Light To Our Future. This celebration of the arts showcases a bevy of leading poets and writers on April 5, 2025. We’re talking fiction, nonfiction, poetry galore, and ways to up the ante on your craft.
Download the CityLit Festival: Our Stories Give Light To Our Future flyer.