Lewis Meyers (1934-2020) lived a capacious life of literature, art, music, teaching, and politics—but his true love was poetry. Early success included publishing in The Paris Review and Field. Although he dedicated his retirement to writing poems, he didn't return to actively submitting. Late poems have appeared posthumously in the Paris Review, Five Points, the Hudson Review, and Poetry Northwest. More are forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review and Arkansas International. The manuscript he left behind, Satan Flaneur, bristles with timeless pinches of wickedness, wit, and metaphysical wisdom.

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