BACK ISSUES: The New Orleans Avant-Garde

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2021, Summer: PDF Download (998 KB, 12 pages)
Boling, Dierdre Drummey. "Warm Embrace: A Remembrance"
D'Amico, Pati. "Meeting Lee Grue"
Formento, Dennis. "She Had More Lives Than a Cat"
Gehman, Mary. "A Tribute to Lee Grue"
Grieshaber, Kathleen. "A Small Homage to Lee Grue"
Horn, Don. Untitled
Jacobelli, Sara. "The Joys of Time Travel on Lesseps Street"
Koschel, George. "Grace Under Pressure"
Levy, Caroline. "I Remember Lee"
Marx, Mary Ann. "Memories of Lee at Alvar Branch Library"
McCleary, Joan Jeffers. "Meeting Lee Meitzen Grue"
McNeilage, Moonyeen. "My Story with Lee"
McFerren, Martha. "Some Memories of Lee Grue"
Nolan, James. "Over the Oysters"
Owen, Melanie. "I Remember Lee Grue"
Parun, Phyllis. "The Lee Meitzen Grue Story Circle"
Parun, Phyllis. "The Lee I Knew"
Pierce, Valentine. "Heaven's Porch"
Tucker, Susan. "Memories of Lee Grue"

2015, Summer: PDF Download (1106 KB, 8 pages)
Colby, Jennifer. "Katrina Diaries: The California Story"
D'Amico, Pati. "Hurricane Katrina Remembrances"
Levy, Caroline. "Poetry"
Parun, Phyllis. "45 Years of Women in Art"
Parun, Phyllis. "Path of Katrina: A Photo Essay"
Pierce, Valentine. "No Sin in That"
Prescott, Amelie. "Amelie's Katrina Story"
Warren, Bill. "Hurricane Katrina: Ten Years Later"

2015, Spring: PDF Download (377 KB, 6 pages)
Lemarie, Patt. "Artistic Inspiration"
Parun, Phyllis. "George Dureau Interviewed"
Pierce, Valentine. "What Makes Me an Artist"
Pierce, Valentine. "Womb Poem"

2014, Summer: PDF Download (398 KB, 4 pages)
Collins, Maggie. "What Inspires My Writing"
Grue, Lee. "How I Became a Poet"
Levy, Carolyn. "LSU New Orleans"
Levy, Carolyn. "I am Myself"
Parun, Phyllis. "Raw Creativity"
Woodie, Holly. "out of chaos"

2013, Spring: PDF Download (666 KB, 4 pages)
Mattingly, Laura. "Holiday Apocalypse Poem #3"
Mattingly, Laura. "2013 Ladyfest; What an Adventure!"
Parun, Phyllis. "Celebrate Women's History Month"
Parun, Phyllis. "New Orleans Women Culturers"
Rodrigues, Evelyn. "Fringe Festival"
Rodrigues, Evelyn. "Words and Music Conference"

Spring, 2011: PDF Download (274 KB, 2 pages)
Nakayama, Delia. "Beyond the Reading"
Parun, Phyllis. "Coordinating Femme Fest"
Ross, Georgia. "The Art of Curating: Femme Fest 2011"

Fall, 2010: PDF Download (359 KB, 4 pages)
Conaway, Vince. "Street Performers' Rights Worldwide"
Harris, Nancy. "New Orleans: All Saints Day"
Parun, Phyllis. "Avant-garde Peer Recognition Awards"
Parun, Phyllis. "Magic New Orleans in the Raw"
Parun, Phyllis. "Nancy C. Harris, Living Treasure"
Parun, Phyllis. "New Orleans Neglects Sculpture"

Spring, 2010: PDF Download (364 KB, 4 pages)
Carey, Beulah. "Another Day, Another Chance"
Parun, Phyllis. "A City of Artists"
Parun, Phyllis. "Femme Fest 2010"
Warren, Bill. "The Big Fireworks"
Weddle, Angela. "I Want To See a Weed"

Spring, 2009: PDF Download (257 KB, 4 pages)
Grue, Lee. "The Muse in the Attic"
Parun, Phyllis. "Femme Fest 2009"
Parun, Phyllis. "Women's Caucus for Art"
Ross, Gary N. "Butterfly: Circle of Life"
Warren, Bill. "How Do We Rebuild Civilization?"

Fall, 2008: PDF Download (230 KB, 4 pages)
Grue, Lee. "St. Claude Avenue Sweet"
Grue, Lee. "Quorum Club & Backyard Poetry Theatre"
Parun, Phyllis. "New Orleans Contemporary Art Scene"
Parun, Phyllis. "Artistic Expression-Freedom of Speech"

Picture of Alvar Branch, New Orleans Public Library

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Marc Cooper, a resident of Bywater in the 1970's, a carpenter by trade and later the Director of the Vieux Carre Commission, chained himself to the Alvar Branch Library building in an attempt to reopen the branch, seeking media attention that never materialized. The building has since been restored and now serves the community of Bywater.

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Picture of The New Orleans Avant Garde 2015 Spring issue

The New Orleans Avant-Garde can be found in the studios of artists, writers and friends and in cafés, galleries and other venues in the St. Claude corridor, the lower French Quarter, in Mid-City and at the Alvar Branch Library in the Bywater neighborhood where artists and literati hang out.