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Grace Cavalieri’s December 2016 Exemplars

January 13, 2017

 The Washington Independent Review of Books features Grace Cavalieri and her Exemplar selections for December 2016.

Poetry Reviews by Grace Cavalieri

The Independent is a non-profit website with a dedication to writing about the literary world as well as book reviews. The Independent is located in Washington DC with a staff of dozens of professional writers and editors mostly in the DC area. They work avidly to bring back a key component in the literary world of books—high-quality book reviews and book-review sections in mainstream media.

 

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