A Law Poem For a Tuesday
Some law poetry for a Tuesday, from the website LawPoetry. Poet Austin D. Blessing (MSU Law 2020) took the Louisiana Supreme Court case of State v. Demesme, 228 So. 3d 1206 (La. 2017) as inspiration....
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From JSTOR Daily: Reconciling With Violence Through Poetry @JSTOR_Daily
From JSTOR Daily, Reconciling With Violence Through Poetry, by Morgan Godvin. The essay begins, “A Prisoner’s Poem” ran in a 1995 issue of The Angolite, out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary commonly known as Angola. Angola...
William Cowper, The Cause Won
William Cowper (1731-1800) The Cause Won Two neighbours furiously dispute; A field–the subject of the suit. Trivial the spot, yet such the rage With which the combatants engage, ‘Twere hard to tell who covets most...
Carl Sandburg, The Lawyers Know Too Much
The Lawyers Know Too Much Carl Sandburg 1878-1967 THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much. They are chums of the books of the old John Marshall. They know it all, what a dead hand wrote,...
Creating Art From the Words of the Court: Harbani Ahuja’s Legal Poetry @ICAADglobal @NYCCouncil @ABAJournal
Look at this fascinating interactive visual poetry exhibit, featured in the ABA Journal here. Harbani Kaur Ahuja, an artist/attorney who is Legislative Counsel for the New York City Council, created it as part of...
Alexandra J. Roberts, Association For Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics: A Poem @lexlanham
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics Alexandra J. Roberts Myriad was first to find the gene’s location, reserve its knowledge, tie up women and their certain mutations. But isolation creates precisely nothing...
Forthcoming From OUP: Fatemeh Shams, A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the Islamic Republic (2021) @OxUniPress
Forthcoming from Oxford University Press: Fatemeh Shams, University of Pennsylvania, A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the Islamic Republic (2021) (Oxford Oriental Monographs). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the...
Election 2020 Haiku
Hedgehogs and Foxes called for submissions of Election 2020 Haiku and received many more submissions than we expected, and we’re thrilled! In fact, there were so many high-quality submissions that the Hedgehogs & Foxes...
Born On This Day: Lawyer and Poet Wallace Stevens
Born OTD: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Mr. Stevens studied literature at Harvard and also pursued earned a law degree from the New York School of Law in 1904 and practiced law for a while, then...
Call for Submissions: Election 2020 Haiku
Call for Submissions: Hedgehogs and Foxes Election Haiku Contest Hedgehogs and Foxes (HaF) welcomes Haiku submissions from poets and from those who dabble, especially writers from the legal academy. As you know, a...