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...
Law and Poetry
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...
Frank on Poetry and the Life of a Law Firm @elizafrank @mespadapoet @LloydEsq
Elizabeth Bales Frank writes about introducing poetry to attorneys at her law firm in her essay My Life as Poet Laureate (Of a Law Firm). She notes that convincing her colleagues of the value of...
Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman
It’s Walt Whitman’s Birthday! He was born OTD in 1819. Below is a short bibliography on law and politics and the works of the distinguished poet. Askin, Denise T., Whitman and the Law: A Prophetic...
ICYMI: IP Haiku For Valentine’s Day @uspto
Check out this Valentine’s Day hashtag: #IPHaiku. The USPTO, the Global IP Law Center, Office de la propriété intellectuelle du Canada, various U.S. state governments, non-profits, and practicing attorneys have joined in to create...
For Veterans Day, Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our...
For Veterans Day: John McCrae, In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are...
Haiku For Election Season 2018
Louisianans! Do you wonder why it seems as though at every election you find you must make decisions about some constitutional amendment or other? Professor John Devlin of the Louisiana State University Law Center...