Stan Rice
Stan Rice (
November 7 1942 â€"
December 9,
2002) was an
American poet and
artist and husband of writer
Anne Rice (married 1961). He was a Professor of English and Creative Writing at
San Francisco State University and retired as Chairman of the Creative Writing Department in 1989. Stan Rice died from brain cancer and was survived by his wife and son, author
Christopher Rice.
Stan Rice wrote poems as chapter introductions for his wife Anne's
Queen of the Damned. He has seven volumes of poetry published, his last,
Red to the Rind, released in early 2002. He published a coffee-table book of his artwork in 1997, calling it simply
Paintings. He was the proprietor of the Stan Rice Gallery in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
It was the death of the couple's first child, daughter Michelle (1966-1972), at age six of
leukemia, which sparked Stan Rice's becoming a published author. His first book of poems, based on her death, was titled
Some Lamb, and was published in 1975. He encouraged his wife to quit her work as a waitress, cook and theater usher in order to devote herself full time to her writing.
Both encouraged their son, Christopher, to write as well.
He is entombed in
Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.
False Prophet (2003) (Posthumous)
Red to the Rind (2002)
The Radiance of Pigs (1999)
Fear Itself (1997)
Singing Yet: New and Selected Poems (1992)
Body of Work (1983)
Whiteboy (1976) (earned the
Edgar Allan Poe award from the
Academy of American Poets)
Some Lamb (1975)
Paintings (1997)
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Stan Rice Gallery, New Orleans
