Literary Career
Cavalieri has published 16 books and chapbooks of poetry, plus fiction. She has written 26 produced plays, and texts for 2 produced operas. She co-founded the Washington Writers Publishing House with John McNally in 1976 and served on its editorial board from 1976 to 1982. In addition, in 1979 she founded The Bunny and the Crocodile Press/Forest Woods Media Productions, Inc., a publishing house and media production company. As of 2012, she still operates the small press which is actively publishing. She has lectured and taught throughout the United States at several colleges and universities, and was, for 25 years, visiting poet at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She was resident writer at the Word Works annual retreat in Tuscany, 1996-2003. She was book editor of The Montserrat Review until 2011. She is poetry columnist for MiPOradio and on the staff of MiPOesias. She writes a poetry feature entitled “Exemplars” for the Washington Independent Review of Books (2011-2012).
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