She co-founded the Washington Writers Publishing House with John McNally in 1976 and served on its editorial board from 1976 to 1982.
Forest Woods Media Productions produces The Poet and the Poem for podcasts and public radio, now celebrating 44 years.
She writes a monthly poetry feature entitled “Exemplars” for the Washington Independent Review of Books (2011–2019).
[2] Cavalieri worked as a radio broadcaster at WPFW-FM from 1977 to 1997 and is best known in the Washington literary community for her program The Poet and the Poem.
Cavalieri stopped airing The Poet and the Poem through WPFW-FM in 1997 and now presents this series to public radio from the Library of Congress via NPR satellite.
Cavalieri has been committed to presenting various American cultural traditions on the program and is particularly interested in the black literary community.