Books by Lee Meitzen Grue: 

Goodbye Silver, Silver Cloud   In the Sweet Balance of the Flesh  French Quarter Poems  Three Poets in New Orleans

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New Orleans Poetry Forum 1978

This fall. the New Orleans Poetry Forum will initiate a series of poetry performances in what it feels is the first backyard poetry theater in the United States.

The theater will be at the residence of Capt. and Mrs. Roland D. Grue, 828 Lesseps Street, in a West Indian style building set back on a patio and opening onto that patio through nine French doors. A non-profit endeavor, it will host public readings by local and nationally known poets.

The non-profit Poetry forum was founded by Jules Hallum in 1972, and has since been directed by Lee Meitzen Grue. The aim of the organization is to further poetry by public reading: publication and distribution of small magazines, anthologies, and books by individual poets; and through workshops.

An added goal is a program of poetry in the schools. Some of this work has been done on a volunteer basis by Grue, Katherine Soniat, assistant director, and Alice Moser Claudel, editor of New Laurel Review.

This past year, members of the organization started a literary magazine, The Pontchatrain Review. Its editor is Ken Fontenot, Katherine Soniat, and Grace Bauer are associate editors.

The Forum also operates the non-profit Long Measure Press, directed by Jim Morris and Ann Morris

Tickets to the group's poetry readings cost $2.

from Dixie Magazine, September 19, 1978