Lisel Mueller Page

Lisel Mueller (February 8, 1924 - ), nee Neumann, was born in Hamburg, Germany. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was 15 years old, where her father was a professor at Evansville College. She married Paul Mueller and the two built a home in Lake Forest, Illinois, where they settled for many years.

Readings:

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Interviews:

• An Interview with Lisel Mueller (PBS News Hour, April 14, 1997);

Essays:

• The Garden of Memory by Nell Casey (Biscayne Bay Review);
• Slightly Larger Than Life Size by Nell Casey (Poetry Foundation);
• Two Strains: Some Thoughts About English Words by Lisel Mueller (Ploughshares);
  

Poems:

• A Day Like Any Other (Ploughshares);
• Alive Together (Poem Hunter);
• Another Version (Real Audio) (State of Illinois);
• Bedtime Story (Plagiarist);
• Blood Oranges (Ploughshares);
• Curriculum Vitae (Poets.org);
• Five For Country Music (Ploughshares);
• For A Thirteenth Birthday (Poem Hunter);
• Immortality (Poetry 180);
• In November (Biscayne Bay Review);
• In Passing (Real Audio)(State of Illinois);
• Love Like Salt (Virtual Grub Street);
• Magnolia (Real Audio)(State of Illinois);
• Monet Refuses The Operation (Poem Hunter);
• Moon Fishing (Poem Hunter);
• Naming the Animals (Real Audio)(State of Illinois);
• Not only the Eskimos (Rice University);
• A Nude by Edward Hopper by Lisel Mueller (In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts);
• Reading The Brothers Grimm To Jenny (Plagiarist);
• Scenic Route (Poem Hunter);
• Small Poem About The Hounds And The Hares (Plagiarist);
• Sometimes, When the Light (Real Audio)(State of Illinois);
• The Laughter Of Women (Poem Hunter);
• Things (Poem Hunter);
• Triage (Real Audio)(State of Illinois);
• What The Dog Perhaps Hears (Brandeis University);
• When I Am Asked (Real Audio)(State of Illinois);
• Why We Tell Stories (Lake Forest College);

Prose:

Photos / Images:

• Lisel Mueller (Lake Forest College);
• Lisel Mueller at the Poetry Center of Chicago (Poetry Center);
• Pulitzer presentation photo (Pulitzer.org);

Reviews/Revistas:

• Book Review by Bobby Matherne. A review of Alive Together by Lisel Mueller (Southern Cross Review, 2004);

Articles/Articulos:

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Miscellaneous:

• Academy of American Poets page (Poets.org);
• Illinois Poet Laureate page (State of Illinois);
• Pulitzer Prize Citation (1997) (Pulitzer.org);

Other VGS Author Pages:

• Wendell Berry;
• Claudia Emerson (Winner of 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry);
• Thomas Gray;
• John Keats;
• Ted Kooser;
• Giacomo Leopardi;
• Federico Garcia Lorca;
• Pablo Neruda;
• Naomi Shihab Nye; and,
• Percy Bysshe Shelley.