GRACE CAVALIERI was Maryland's tenth Poet Laureate (2018-2024.) Her new poetry book: Owning The Not So Distant World won the Blue Light Book Award, (2024) and The Long Game: Poems Selected & New was published in 2023. She founded and still produces The Poet and the Poem for public radio, now from the Library of Congress, celebrating 48 years on-air in 2025. Grace was formerly Asst Director for Children's Programming, Corporate PBS., and senior media officer, NEH. Among honors, She holds the Bordighera Award, two Allen Ginsberg Awards and the CPB Silver Medal. She's an Academy of American Poets Fellow.