Three photographs Louie Clay
I took this picture with the web cam in my computer on the day after a surgeon removed squamous cell carcinoma from the top of my head. I wrote a poem about it, which I read here.
I took this picture in 1983 while teaching at the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute. The grandmother and her child doze in the bright sun on a very cold day by the entrance to the innermost part of the emperor's palace. It demonstrates freedoms that emperors never allowed. The grandmother's drabness contrasts with the child's colorfulness as the old order changes and makes way for the new.
My husband Ernest Clay fried these as part of a simple feast.
We have lots of feasts. Here’s a picture of us taken last July 26th when the Supreme Court legitimized our 39-year-old marriage
Louie Crew's photography has appeared in many publications. Editors have also published 2,288 of his essays and poems. Crew is an emeritus professor at Rutgers. He's in Wikipedia.He has edited special issues of College English and Margins. The University of Michigan collects Crew's papers.