Louie Crew Clay

Poet

East Orange, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
louie.clay@comcast.net
Website: 
andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/

Author's Bio

As of 5/20/2017 editors have published 2,709 of my poems and essays. Follow those at
http://rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pubs.html. The University of Michigan collects my papers.

I was born 12/9/1936. My husband Ernest Clay and I married on 2/2/1974 outside the law and on 8/22/2013 legally.

I am an emeritus professor at Rutgers University. I founded Integrity, an international organization of LGBTQ Anglicans

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Letters from Samaria: The Prose & Poetry of Louie Crew Clay (Seabury Books, 2015)
,
Queers! For Christ's Sake! (Dragon Disks, 2004)
,
Book of Revelations (Integrity Press, 1991)
,
From Queen Lutibelle's Pew (Dragon Disks, 1990)
,
Midnight Lessons (Samisdat Press, 1987)
Journals:
Jenny
,
RFD
Prizes won: 

NEH post-doctoral fellowships at UC-Berkeley, U Texas, and U. Chicago. Honorary doctorates from three seminaries of the Episcopal Church. Residences at the Wurlitzer Foundation and the Ragdale Foundation.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood, Christodora by Tim Murphy, Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood, Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
LGBTQ
Born in: 
Anniston
Raised in: 
Anniston, AL
Alabama
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Last update: May 22, 2017