Notable Publication James Clarke's The Juried Heart was published Pleasure Boat Studio in 2015. The Juried Heart is a selection of Judge Clarke's poignant poems about his life and his work as a judge. Judge Clarke, a graduate of McGill University and Osgoode Hall, now retired, practiced law in Cobourg, Ontario and assumed his duties on the bench in 1983. Clarke's poetry has appeared in numerous volumes in Canada; The Juried Heart is Clarke's first book published in the United States. Collections of Judge Clarke's more recent work, Reluctant Witness and Fugitive Light appear in 2015 issues of the Legal Studies Forum.   Juried Heart is, to my knowledge, the first major collection of poetry by a judge about his life on (and off) the bench. "Highly recommended." James R. Elkins

2021 (Collections of Poetry by Lawyers): Anita S. Pulier, Toast (Finishing Line Press, 2021); Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things (Milkweek Editions, 2021) , Ace Boggess, Escape Envy (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2021); Jayne Moore Waldrop, Pandemic Lent: A Season in Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2021); Michael Blumenthal, Don't Die: Poems 2013–2021 (Rabbit House Press, 2021); Karen Poppy, Our Own Beautiful Brutality (Finishing Line Press, 2021)' Betsy Bernfeld, The Cathedral Is Burning (Finishing Line Press, 2021); Gay Parks Rainville, Clearing the Mask (Finishing Line Press, 2021).

2020 (Collctions of Poetry by Lawyers): Erica Bodwell, Crown of Wild (Two Sylvias Press, 2020); Ann Tweedy, A Registry of Survival, (Last Word Press, 2020); Thomas J. Erickson, The Lawyer Chronicles (Kelsay Books, 2020); Gay Parks Rainville, Clearing the Mask, (Finishing Line Press, 2020); Karen Poppy, Crack Open/Emergency (Finishing Line Press, 2020); Amy Woolard, Neck of the Woods (Alice James Books, 2020); Karen Poppy, Every Possible Thing (Homestead Lighthouse Press2020); Michael H. Levin, Falcons (Finishing Line Press, 2020); Elya Braden, Open the Fist (Finishing Line Press, 2020); Mary K O’Melveny, Merging Star Hypothesis (Finishing Line Press, 2020); Eric Blanchard, The Good Parts (Finishing Line Press, 2020); Dotty E. LeMieux, Henceforth I Ask Not Good Fortune (Finishing Line Press, 2020); Jonathan Andrew Pérez, Cartographer of Crumpled Maps: The Justice Elegies (Finishing Line Press, 2020).

2019 (Collections of Poetry by Lawyers): Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems (W.W. Norton, 2019); Warren Woessner, Exit ~ `Sky (Holy Cow! Press, 2019); Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019); L. Ward Abel, The Rainflock Sings Again (Unsolicited Press, 2019); Stephanie Laterza, The Psyche Trials (Finishing Line Press, 2019); Phillip Emanuel Frost Bounds, With Open Hands (Spartan Press, 2019); Jayne Moore Waldrop, Retracing My Steps (Finishing Line Press, 2019); Laura Schulkind, The Long Arc of Grief (Finishing Line Press, 2019); Simon Perchik, The Gibson Poems (Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library, 2019); Fiona Tinwei Lam, Odes & Laments (Caitlin Press, 2019); RebeccaFoust, The Unexploded Ordance Bin (Swan Scythe Press, 2019); Gregory Ashe, Haunted by Ghosts of Past and Present Love (Finishing Line Press, 2019); Elizabeth Shafer, Wellsprings (Finishing Line Press, 2019); G. H. Mosson, Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line Press, 2019).

2018 (Collections of Poetry by Lawyers): Christopher Cessac, The Youngest Ocean (WayWiser Press, 2018); Ace Boggess, I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So (Unsolicited Press, 2018); Lynne Viti, The Glamorganshire Bible (Finishing Line Press, 2018); David Atkinson, The Ablation of Time (Ginninderra Press, 2018); Jessica Fjeld, Redwork (BOATT Press, 2018); Mary K. O'Melveny, A Woman of a Certain Age (Finishing Line Press, 2018); David Orr, Dangerous Household Items (Copper Canyon Press, 2018); Ashlie Weeks, Tears, Torture, and Tomorrow (Archway Publ., 2018); Shankar Narayan, Postcards from the New World (Paper Nautilus Press, 2018); Carol L. Gloor, Falling Back (Word Poetry, 2018); Greer Gurland, It just so happens: Poems to Read Aloud (Finishing Line Press, 2018); Greg Rappleye, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds (Dos Madres, 2018); Anita S. Pulier, The Butcher's Diamond (Finishing Line Press, 2018); Shankar Narayan, Postcards from the New World (Paper Nautilus Press, 2018); Gregory Ashe, Explorations (Finishing Line Press, 2018); Thomas Erickson, Hailstorm Interlude (Finishing Line Press, 2018); Michael H. Levin, Man Overboard: New and Selected Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2018); Charles D. J. Case, Nectarines, Vodka, Sundays, and Death (Finishing Line Press, 2018); Betsy Orient Bernfeld, Eve (Finishing Line Press, 2018)

2017 (Collections of Poetry by Lawyers): Susan Lewis, Heisenberg's Salon (BlazeVOX, 2017); James Clarke, Oblique Verdicts (Exile Editions, 2017) [Oblique Verdicts was published in the U.S. in 2015 by Pleasure Boat Studio under the title, The Juried Heart]; L.Ward Abel, Dingby Roundabout (Kelsay Books, 2017) ; Joshua Hegarty, On Passing (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2017); Lynne Spigelmire Viti, Baltimore Girls (Finishing Line Press, 2017); Ace Boggess, Ultra Deep Field (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017); Anita S. Pulier, Sounds of Morning (Finishing Line Press, 2017); Lawrence Joseph, So Where Are We (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017); Dorritt Carroll, Sorry You Are Not an Instant Winner (Kattywompus, 2017); Lynne Viti, Baltimore Girls (Finishing Line Press, 2017); Erica Bodwell, Up Liberty Street (Finishing Line Press, 2017); Daniel A. Olivas, Crossing the Border (Pact Press, 2017); Tom Weston, What Is Left Behind (Steele Roberts, 2017); Lynne Spigelmire Viti, Punting (Origami Poems Project, 2017); Tom Jones, Beyond Existentialism: New and Selected Poems (Foothills Publishing, 2017); Dan Maclssac, Cries from the Ark (Brick Books, 2017); Laura Chalar, Unlearning (Coal City Press, 2017); James W. Keenan, Poetry by a Lawyer: A Collection of Reminiscences, Observations, and Opinions (Poetically Expressed) (Xlibris, 2017); Simon Perchik, The Osiris Poems (Forge, 2017); Paul Killebrew, To Literally You (Canarium Books, 2017); Evie Shockley, semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press, 2017)

2016 (Collections of Poetry by Lawyers): Seth Abramson, Data (BlazeVOX [Books], 2016); Tim Nolan, The Field (New Rivers Press, 2016); Ann Tweedy, The Body's Alphabet (Headmistress Press, 2016); John L. Holgerson, Unnecessary Tattoo and Other Stains on a Stainless Stell Heart (Finishing Line Press, 2016); Gerry Grubbs, The Palace of Flowers (Dos Madres Press, 2016); James Clarke, The Quality of Mercy (JHC Press, 2016); Monica Youn, Blackacre (Graywolf Press, 2016); Adam J. Sedia, Inquitetude (CreateSpace, 2016); Thomas J. Erickson, The Biology of Consciousness and Other Poems (Pebblebrook Press, 2016); Simone White, Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem Books, 2016); Jacqueline St. Joan, What Remains (Turkey Buzzard Press, 2016); Carol Jennings, Dead Spirits at the Piano (WordTech Communications, 2016); Martín Espada, Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (W.W. Norton, 2016); L. Ward Abel, A Jerusalem of Ponds (erbacce-press, 2016); William Bernhardt, The Ocean’s Edge (Red Dirt Press, 2016); Saul Touster, From My Life and Other Poems (Philodor Co., 2016); Richard Alan Bunch, Johnny Cake and Other Poems (Infinity Publ., 2016); Richard Alan Bunch, Seawind in the Plums: New and Selected Poems (Infinity Publ., 2016); Mystic Pizzazz and Tiger Lillies: Poems for the Spirit (Infinity Publ., 2016); T.S. Kerrigan, Missing the Sunset at Sounion (Xlibris, 2016); Tim Nolan, The Field (New Rivers Press, 2016); Jessica de Koninck, Cutting Room (Terrapin Books, 2016); Kelly Hansen Maher, Tremolo (Tinderbox Editions, 2016); L.Ward Abel, Little Town Gods (Folded Word Press, 2016); Annie Kim, Into the Cyclorama (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2016); Cynthia J. Patton, Across an Aqueous Moon: Travels in Autism (Finishing Line Press, 2016); Joni Wallace, Kingdom Come Radio Show (Barrow Street Press, 2016)

2015 (Collections of Poetry by Lawyers): James Clarke, The Juried Heart (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2015); James Clarke, Winter With Flowers (JHC Press, 2015); David Krieger, Wake Up! (Nuclear Age Foundation Book, 2015); Barry Marks, Dividing by Zero (Negative Capability Press, 2015); David E. Cowen, The Madness of Empty Spaces (Weasel Press, 2015); Seth Abramson, Metamericana (BlazeVOX [Books], 2015); Laura Chalar, Midnight at the Law Firm (Coal City Press, 2015); David Bristol, The Hour of the Poem Poem: Poems on Writing (New Academia Publishing/ Scarith Books, 2015); Kristin Roedell, Down River (Aldrich Books, 2015); Richard Falk, Waiting for Rainbows (iUniverse, 2015); Frank Pommersheim, Local Memory and Karma (Rose Hill Books, 2015); Rebecca Foust, Paradise Drive (Press 53, 2015); Barry George, The One Who Flies Back (Kattywompus Press, 2015); J.T. Whitehead, The Table of the Elements: Poems 1992-2007 (Broadkill River Press, 2015); Dawn Coppock, As Sweet as It's Going to Get (Sapling Grove Press, 2015); Judith Behar, A Green Bough (Finishing Line Press, 2015); Roberta Beary, Deflection (Accents Publ., 2015); Tom Gannon, Food for a Journey (Antrim House, 2015); Roberta Beary, Deflection (Accents Publ., 2015); Tom Jones, Beyond Existentialism (FootHills Publ., 2015); Richard Alan Bunch, Gazing Anew: Collected Poems 2011-2015 (Infinity Publ., 2015); Marianne Johnson, Tender Collisions (Aldrich Press, 2015); Graham Smith, Bar Napkins for Beginners (Sadie Girl Press, 2015); Betsy Snider, Hope is a Muscle (Blue Light Press, 2015)

2014 (Collections of Poetry by Lawyers): Warren Wolfson, At This Point (Ampersand, Inc., 2014); Howard Gofreed, Postcard from Bologna (Broadkill River Press, 2014); Ron Self, Rich Man's Son (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2014); Ace Boggess, The Prisoners (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2014); Sherri Felt Dratfield, Water Vigils (Finishing Line Press, 2014); Mary Anne Reese, Deep Down (Finishing Line Press, 2014); Mary Anne Reese, Deep Down (Finishing Line Press, 2014); Richard Alan Bunch, Summer Swans: New and Selected Poems (Infinity Publishing, 2014); Elizabeth J. Coleman, Proof ( Spuyten Duyvil Publ., 2014); Paul Nemser, Tales of the Tetragrammaton (Mayapple Press, 2014); Brian Gilmore, We Didn't Know Any Gangsters (Cherry Castle Publ., 2014); Richard Taylor, Rain Shadow (Broadstone Books, 2014); Laura Schulkind, Lost in Tall Grass (Finishing Line Press, 2014); Bruce Hesselbach, Roving Enchantments (White Violet Press, 2014); Joe Carvalko, Behind the Steel: One Life--Five Epochs (Anaphora Literary Press, 2014); Lynn Saul, In Our Language (Jumping Cholla Press, 2014); Leslie B. Neustadt, Bearing Fruit: A Poetic Journey (Spirit Wind Books, 2014); Richard S. Bank, Testation (Moonstone Press, 2014); Michael H. Levin, Watered Colors (Poetica Publ., 2014); Susan Lewis, How to be Another (Červená Barva Press, 2014); Susan Lewis, This Visit (Blaze Box [books], 2014); Sherna Spencer, Musing Aloud Allowed (Jalousie, 2014); Charles Hughes, Cave Art (Wiseblood Books, 2014); Viola Canales, The Little Devil and the Rose: Lotería Poems (Arte Público Press, 2014); Greg Powell, In Love’s Shawl (Centaur Press, 2014); Gary Stein, Between Worlds (Finishing Line Press, 2014); Olena Kalytiak Davis, The Poem She Didn't Write and Other Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)

2013 (Collections of Poetry by Lawyers): Elizabeth J. Coleman, Let My Ears Be Open (Finishing Line Press, 2013); Jamie Stern, Chasing Steam (Visual Artists Collective, 2013); L. Ward Abel, Cousins Over Colder Fields (Finishing Line Press, 2013); L. Ward Abel, Roseorange (Flutter Press, 2013);Seth Abramson, Thievery (University of Akron Press, 2013); Jay Bryan, Selected Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2013); Thomas J. Erickson, The Lawyer Who Died in the Courthouse Bathroom (Parallel Press, 2013); Ann Tweedy, White Out (Green Fuse Press, 2013); Arthur Kleiman, Grand Slam (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2013); Rose Auslander, Folding Water (Finishing Line Press, 2013); Christopher Keefer, Lessons From Exile (Finishing Line Press, 2013); Sherri Felt Dratfield, The City (Finishing Line Press, 2013); John P. McVeigh, Burning Chairs (Moon Pie Press, 2013); Paul Nemser, Taurus (New American Press, 2013); Michael Denvir, The Best Poetry is Secret (Michael Denvir, 2013); Christine DeSimone, How Long the Night Is (Lummox Press, 2013); Doritt Carroll, GLTTL STP (Brickhouse Books, 2013); Marian Kent, Superpowers or: More Poems About Flying (All Caps Publ., 2013); Gerry Grubbs, The Hive: Is a Book We Read For Its Honey (Dos Madras Press, 2013); George Higgins, There, There (White Violet Press, 2013); Susan Lewis, State of the Union (Spuyten Duyvil, 2013); Natalie Shapero, No Object (Saturnalia Books, 2013); Adam J. Sedia, The Spring's Autumn (Adam J. Sedia, 2013); Selma Mann, Mourning Cloak (Premiere Sortie, 2013); Lynne Thompson, Start with a Small Guitar (What Books Press, 2013); William Bernhardt, The White Bird (Balkan Press, 2013); Hotel Room (Vostok East Press, 2013)

2012 (Collections of Poetry by Lawyers): Tom Jones, Nearing Palenque--Reflections on Native America: New and Selected Poems (FootHills Publishing, 2012); Kathleen Winter, Nostalgia for the Criminal Past (Elixir Press, 2012); Laurel Kallen, The Forms of Discomfort (Finishing Line Press, 2012); James McKenna, The Common Law (Moon Pie Press, 2012); Wallace McCall, Pomeranian Pandemonium and Other Poems (CreateSpace, 2012); David Filer, Housekeeping (Finishing Line Press, 2012); David Filer, The Feat of Love (Plain View Press, 2012); Tim Nolan, And Then (New Rivers Press, 2012); Michael Blumenthal, No Hurry: Poems 2000-2012 (Etruscan Press, 2012); Dan Burt, We Look Like This (Carcanet Press/Alliance House, 2012); Paul R. Rice, Every Leaf Casts a Shadow (Finishing Line Press, 2012); L. Ward Abel, American Bruise (Parallel Press, 2012); Kathleen Winter, Nostalgia for the Criminal Past (Elixir Press, 2012)Wendy Willis, Blood Sisters of the Republic (Press 53, 2012); Richard Alan Bunch, Seasonings of the Milky Way (Infinity Publishing, 2012); Sam Haskins Attorney: Poems 1970-1980 (IFSF Publishing, 2012); Greg McBride, Porthole Briery Creek Press (2012); Bonné de Blas, The Act of Dwelling (NightBallet Press, 2012); Michael Sowder, House Under the Moon ( Truman State University Press, 2012); Marian Kent, Responsive Pleading (All Caps Publ., 2012); Marc Stone, Diminishment (Main Street Rag Publ. Co., 2012); Jan Dejnožka, The Growth of a Thinker: A Chapbook of Poems (Jan Dejnožka, 2012); Paul R. Rice, Every Leaf Casts A Shadow (Finishing Line Press, 2012)

2011 (Collections of Poetry by Lawyers): Evie Shockley, The New Black (Wesleyan, 2011); Seth Abramson, Northerners (Western Michigan University Press, 2011); Maureen Thorson, Applies to Oranges (Ugly Duckling Presse)' Joni Wallace, Blinking Ephemeral Valentine (Four Way Books, 2011); Gregory Chaimov, Everything is Water (Press 22); Martín Espada, The Trouble Ball (W.W. Norton and Company, 2011); John Fitzgerald, The Mind (Salmon Poetry, 2011); Raymond Zachary Ortiz, We Had More to Say: Poems from the Pilgrimage Road (Sunstone Press, 2011); David Filer, Weather Patterns: Selected Short Poems (Dancing Moon Press, 2011); Laurie Soriano, Catalina (Lummox Press, 2011); Josey Foo, A Lily Lilies (Nightboat Books, 2011)(with notes on Dance by Leah Stein); Mary Anne Reese, Raised by Water (Finishing Line Press, 2011); Dan Burt, Certain Windows (Lincott Press, 2011); Oscar S. Cisneros, The History of Dying Stars: A Book of Poetry and Art (Old Man Whimsley & Co., 2011); Mary Anne Reese, Raised by Water (Finishing Line Press, 2011); Richard Alan Bunch, Collected Poems 1965-2011 (Infinity Publishing, 2011); Kristin Roedell, Girls with Gardenias (Flutter Press, 2011); Alice N. Persons, Thank Your Lucky Stars (Moon Pie Press, 2011); Shane McCrae, Mule (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011); Richard Taylor, Fading Into Bolivia (Accents Publ., 2011)

2010 (Collections of Poetry by Lawyers): Christopher Cessac, Eros Among the Americans (Main Street Rag, 2010); L. Ward Abel, Torn Sky Bleeding Blue (erbacce-press, 2010); Monica Youn, Ignatz (Four Way Books, 2010); Paul Killebrew, Flowers (Canarium, 2010); Bessy Reyna, Memorias de la amante infiel (Memories of the Unfaithful Lover) (Libros de la Tribu, 2010); Rachel Contreni Flynn, Tongue (Red Hen Press, 2010); Ann Tweedy, Beleaguered Oases (TcCreativePress, 2010); Keith Ainsworth, The Loyal Opposition (Open Books, 2010); Mary Leader, Beyond the Fire (Shearsman Books, 2010); Nancy A. Henry, SARX (Moon Pie Press, 2010); Charles Douthat, Blue for Oceans (New Haven Review Press, 2010); Charles G. Reynard, The Utility of Heart Break (Pikestaff Press, 2010); Rebecca Foust, God, Seed (Tebot Bach Press, 2010) and All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (Many Mountain Moving Press, 2010); At the End of Time: The Incomplete Works of Richard Krech, Volume II: Poems 2001-2009 (Buffalo, New York: Sunnyoutside Press, 2010); Ruth Kramer Baden, East of the Moon (Ibbetson Street Press, 2010); Barry S. Marks, Possible Crocodiles (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2010); Jawanza Phoenix, The Intersection of Beauty and Crime (CreateSpace, 2010); Gowri Koneswaran, Still Beating (Gowri Koneswaran, 2010); Doritt Carroll, In Caves (BrickHouse Books, 2010); Anita Mohan, Letters to an Albatross (Blaze Vox Books, 2010); David Michael Belczyk, Sometimes Form Sometimes Vessel (Culturatti Ink, 2010); David Michael Belczyk, Call It Perpetual (culturatti ink, 2010); Robert Rosenbloom, Reunion (Finishing Line Press, 2010); Georgia Ressmeyer, Today I Threw My Watch Away (Finishing Line Press, 2010); Michele Leavitt, The Glass Transition (Finishing Line Press, 2010); Dan Burt, Cold Eye (Lincott Press, 2010); Jendi Reiter, Barbie at 50 (Barva Press, 2010); Myra Malkin, No Lifeguard On Duty (Main Street Rag Publ. Co., 2010); James J. Brown, Reflections of a Poetic Judge (AuthorHouse, 2010); Shane McCrae, In Canaan (Rescue Press, 2010); Leonard Weintraub, Poems Unpleasant (Langdon Street Press, 2010); Aisha Othman, Reflections of a Wayfarer: Poetry of Islamic Excellence (AuthorHouse, 2010); Kristin Roedell, Seeing in the Dark (Tomato Can Press, 2010); Dan Gunter, Songs of Neanthus (Tomato Can Press, 2010); Joyce Meyers, Shapes of Love (Finishing Line Press, 2010); Greg Larson, Of Squid & Other Humans (Main Street Rag Publ. Co., 2010); Jessica Fjeld, The Tide (Pilot Books, 2010); David R. Clowers, Shedding My Three Piece Birthday Suit (Birchwinds Press, 2010)

2010 (News): The University of Iowa Press has published a new anthology of law-related poetry, Poetry of the Law: From Chaucer to the Present, edited by David Kader and Michael Stanford. [For a review of Poetry of the Law, see Robert E. Rains, Of Cantos & Clerihews, 13 Green Bag2d 453 (2010)][An article by Michael Stanford on lawyer poets was published by the Legal Studies Forum in 2006. See Michael Stanford, The Cyclopean Eye, The Courtly Game, Admissions Against Interest: Five Modern American Lawyer Poets, 30 Legal Stud. F. 9 (2006)]

2010 (Legal Studies Forum): The first issue of LSF for 2010 is devoted to the prose/verse historical vignettes of John Sanford (1904-2003). [Life and Work of John Sanford]

The second issue for 2010 contains poems by Michael Blumenthal, Margaret Hoehn, Christopher Cessac, Richard Alan Bunch, Jesse Mountjoy, L. Ward Abel, Warren Wolfson, Charles Reynard, Ann Tweedy, Robert Nielsen, Megan Carpenter, Susan Ayres, Laurie Soranio, Laura Chalar, María Constanza Farfalla, Mercedes Araujo, Mariella Nigro, John W. Teeter, Jr., John Charles Kleefeld, Lou Faber, and Joan Blessing. The second 2010 issue also includes stories by Peter Haje, David Butler, Gaynell Galvin, Allan B. Ecker, and Richard Bank.

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