Lee later joined Li, Taiwan ’ s first poetry society comprised of poets born in Taiwan. There he met a number of Taiwanese poets from the “ language transition ” generation, poets born in the 1920s such as Zhan Bing, Chen Chien-wu, Lin Heng-tai, and Jin Lian.
之後李敏勇加入了第一個以本省籍詩人為骨幹的《笠》詩社，認識多位「跨越語言」一代的台灣詩人，如生於 1920 年代的詹冰、陳千武、林亨泰、錦連……。