{"id":7364,"date":"2007-02-16T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T16:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/02\/16\/uicl-conference-on-lawyers-and-poe"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:52","slug":"uicl-conference-on-lawyers-and-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/02\/16\/uicl-conference-on-lawyers-and-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"UICL conference on lawyers and poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mouseLawyer\" If you hurry right now to Urbana, Illinois, you can still catch the last few sessions of the University of Illinois College of Law’s inaugural Law and Poetry Conference, “Opening Arguments: Poetry and the Law<\/a>.” Billed as “the first conference in the United States to explore and celebrate the relationship of law and poetry,” the Feb. 15 – 16 confab is sponsored by UICL, the University of Illinois MFA Creative Writing Program, and Richard Powers, the author of “The Echo Maker<\/em>,” a recent National Book Award winner. [And see, Urbana Gazette, “Urbana attorney loves poetry … and the law<\/a>,” Feb. 11, 2007, featuring lawyer-poet Carl Reisman and discussing the conference.]<\/p>\n

\"mouseArtisteF\" As Robert Ambrogi noted at Legal Blog Watch<\/em><\/a> (Feb. 12, 2007): Among the topics on the agenda: “In Search of the Lawyer Poets,” “Does the Practice of Law Kill Passion?” and “Law and Poetry as Spiritual Paths.” A featured speaker will be West Virginia College of Law professor James R. Elkins,<\/a> who collects information on lawyer\/poets at his Web site, Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and Poetry<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, f\/k\/a<\/em> is built on the premise that lawyers and poetry (at least, the one-breath variety) are an excellent mix (see, Yes, Lawyers and Haiku<\/a>, for example). We have frequently celebrated the efforts of Prof. Elkins at his Strangers<\/em> website and his Legal Studies Forum<\/a>, which has published perhaps a thousand pages of poetry by modern lawyers over the past couple of years. (see Every Law Library Needs this Volume<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"quillPen\" In just the past two weeks, three major haiku journals — Bottle Rockets<\/a> (Vol. 8:2, #16), Frogpond<\/a><\/em> (XXX:1, Winter 2007) and Simply Haiku<\/a><\/em> (Vol. 5:1, Spring 2007) — have included the work of lawyer poets:<\/p>\n

in my soup
\nthe dampness
\nof winter rain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

last train
\na can rolls the length
\nof the quiet car<\/p>\n

. . . by Roberta Beary<\/a>, Bottle Rockets<\/em> #16 (Spring 2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

a light in the boathouse
\nthe long room
\nfor the sculls<\/p>\n

South Philly in spring —
\nthe hoagie shop’s signed picture
\nof Stallone<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . . by Barry George<\/a>, Frogpond<\/em> (Winter 2007) \"quillPen\"<\/p>\n

first date–
\nthe little pile
\nof anchovies<\/p>\n

. . . by Roberta Beary<\/a>, Frogpond<\/em> (Winter 2007), 1st Place,
\nHaiku Society of America’s 2006 Gerald Brady Senryu Contest<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"HaigaCurtainTimeS\" original<\/a> (haiga<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

curtain time:
\nthe stage crew as silent
\nas the props<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>\"HaigaAprilStormS\" orig<\/a>.<\/p>\n

april storm —
\nborrowing the neighbor’s
\nrock salt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

a foot of snow \"HaigaFootSnowGS\" orig<\/a>.
\na month too soon
\ncandles for nightlights<\/p>\n

. . . haiga<\/a> by <\/em>Arthur Giacalone (photos) & David Giacalone<\/a> (poetry);
\nSimply Haiku Journal<\/em>, Vol. 5 no. 1 (Spring 2007)
\n– click on the link next to each picture to see the full version,
\nand go here<\/a>, for access to three more Giacalone haiga<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"MouseArtiste\" p.s.<\/strong> On a related topic, see “Cases to Canvas: ART CLASSES TURN A LAWYER INTO A PAINTER<\/a>,” Washington Post<\/em>, Feb. 15, 2007, featuring lawyer-painter Shahrzad Heyat Jalinous (via Elefant at LegalBlogWatch<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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