The Mandate of Heaven

Grace Cavalieri is an award-winning author of sixteen books and chapbooks of poetry, including WATER ON THE SUN (Bordighera Press, 2007) and THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN (Bordighera Press, 2014). She is also co- author, with Sabine Pascarelli, of the book of poems and recipes, THE POET'S COOKBOOK (Bordighera Press, 2009). She founded and continues to produce The Poet and the Poems for public radio, celebrating thirty-seven years on-air, and now recorded at the Library of Congress. She serves on the national board of the American Initiative for Italian Culture.