Lee Meitzen Grue

Poet

New Orleans, LA
Louisiana US

Author's Bio

Lee Meitzen Grue was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana, a small town upriver. New Orleans has been home for most of her life. She began reading her poetry at The Quorum Club during the early sixties. In 1982 she began editing New Laurel Review, an independent international literary journal which is still published today. She lived downtown in the Bywater for thirty-five years. After the flood of 2005 she began teaching fiction and poetry at the Alvar Library, which is three blocks from her house. Her books include Trains and Other Intrusions, French Quarter Poems, In the Sweet Balance of the Flesh, and Goodbye Silver, Silver Cloud.

Photo credit: Chloe Raub

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Brilliant Corners (Indiana University Press, 2007)
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Maple Leaf Rag III (Portals Press, 2006)
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French Quarter Stories: New Fiction from America's Oldest Bohemia (Light of New Orleans, 2002)
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Urban Nature (Milkweed Editions, 2000)
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An Uncommon Place (Louisiana State University Press, 1998)
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From a Bend in the River (Runagate Press, 1998)
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My Shameless St. Augustine Scrapbook (Kings Estate Press, 1998)
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The Big Easy That Care Forgot (Negative Capability Press, 1998)
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Immortelles (Xavier University Press, 1995)
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Inheritance of Light (University of North Texas Press, 1994)
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The Maple Leaf Rag: 15th Anniversary Anthology (Portals Press, 1994)
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Jazz Poetry Anthology (Indiana University Press, 1993)
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Apple Street Anthology (Poetry Forum Press, 1980)
Books:
Live! On Frenchmen Street (Cyberstudio, 2000)
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Three Poets in New Orleans (Xavier Review Press, 2000)
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Goodbye Silver, Silver Cloud (Plain View Press, 1994)
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In the Sweet Balance of the Flesh (Plain View Press, 1984)
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French Quarter Poems (Long Measure Press, 1979)
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Poems: Trains and Other Intrusions (Poetry Forum Press, 1974)
Journal:
Yawp

More Information

Born in: 
Plaquemine, LA
Louisiana
Raised in: 
New Orleans, LA
Louisiana
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Last update: Jun 21, 2021