Lewis Meyers lived a capacious life dedicated to art, music, teaching, and politics—but his true love was poetry. As a graduate student studying with Donald Hall, he published in the Paris Review, Poetry Northwest, and Hudson Review. But after these early successes, he gave little energy to seeking recognition. For years as an academic and political activist, he continued writing poems but seldom submitted them. Several did appear, however—Antioch Review, Field, and Literary Review—during his years in the English Department at Hunter College. Before he died in 2020, he asked his wife to endeavor to publish his best work posthumously. Since his death, Diana Tietjens Meyers has placed eleven poems in Paris Review, Poetry Northwest, Five Points, Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, and Arkansas International. His book Field Notes of a Flaneur won the 2024 New Measure Poetry Prize and will be published early in 2026 by New Verse Editions.
