Lawyers and Literature James R. Elkins Lawyers | Poets | Poetry A Long History of Lawyer Poets: "Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and Poetry" A Personal Account of How I Found the Lawyer Poets: James R. Elkins Poets Thinking About Poetry: On Poetry Poets on the World of Law and Lawyers: Legal Verse A Law School Course: Lawyers, Poets, and Poetry Why Poetry Talking about Poetry [video :: 0:48 mins.] [Lee Robinson, a lawyer poet, talks about poetry] Transformational Communication: Poetry of Persuasion [11:22 mins.] [in-class present can end at 4:30 mins.] Why Read and Write Poetry? (Dead Poets Society) [video :: 1:18 mins.] Poets Learning from Prose Writers|Prose Writers Learning From Poets: Edward Hirsch [video :: 6:00 mins.] Legal Verse Anthologies: The most recent anthology of legal verse is James R. Elkins (ed.), Lawyer Poets and That World We Call Law: An Anthology of Poems about the Practice of Law (New York: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2013). For a review, see: Book Review, Lawyer Poets and That World We Call Law Kate O'Neil, Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD, vol.11, 2014 For an earlier anthology of legal verse, see: Percival E. Jackson (ed.), Justice and the Law: An Anthology of Legal Poetry and Verse (Charlottesville, Virginia: The Michie Co., 1960) A Lawyer Talks about Poetry A Lawyer Talks about Poetry and Persuasion [video :: 2:46 mins.] A Famous Lawyer Poem: Carl Sandburg, "Lawyers Know Too Much" [audio :: 1:52 mins.] Lawyer Poets: Tom Erickson | Suzannah Gilman | Martín Espada | James McKenna | David Filer & Greg Chaimov | Jamie Stern | Greg Rappleye | Lawrence Joseph | Lawrence Joseph: Poet with a Steady Job | Ann Tweedy | Fern G. Z. Carr | Brian Gilmore | Carl Reisman | Michael Blumenthal | Robin Cravey | Susan J. Abraham | David Orr | Amy Woolard | Jim Drummond | Jeffrey Levine | Gary Forrester | John M. FitzGerald | Laura Fargas | Luisa Caycedo-Kimura | Sam Haskins | Thomas Lloyd Qualls | Iris Gomez | Tonya M. Evans-Walls | Esther Cameron | Jill Starishevsky | Charles D. Williams | John L. Holgerson | Paul Killebrew | Nancy A. Henry | Richard Taylor (with other Kentucky poet laureates | Videos | Lawyer Poets in Lawyer Poets and That World We Call Law Warren Wolfson An Interview: Warren Wolfson Talking About Being a Poet [4:55 mins.] [Reading, "Eleventh Floor Lies"][Wolfson is the author of a chapbook, At This Point (Ampersand, Inc., 2014] James Clarke The Human Face of the Law [3:30 mins.] James Clarke Reading "How to Bribe a Judge" [2:14 mins.] The Kid from Simcoe Street [2:59 mins.] Richard Krech Richard Krech Reading from In Chambers [9:24 mins.] [Travel Poems :: 7:22 mins.] [Later Poems :: 5:29 mins.] [A Fable :: 1:17 mins.] Greg McBride A Tribute to Ann Knox [3:07 mins.] Lawrence Joseph Interview [28:31 mins.] [University of Oregon, Oregon Humanities Center] Tim Nolan A Reading of "Old Astronauts" [1:51 mins.] Lee Robinson Talking about Poetry [0:48 mins.] Ace Boggess Interview [26:20 mins.] Joyce Meyers Reading "Ancient Wisdom" [1:52 mins.] Simon Perchik An Interview [28:19 mins.] Martín Espada On the Power Behind Poetry [14:18 mins.] [Interview with Bill Moyers] Martín Espada Examines Life Through Verse [30:03 mins.] [Interview with Bill Moyers] Espada interviewed by the editor of The Progressive magazine [9:31 mins.] Naomi Ayala interviews Martín Espada [28:42 mins.] The Other USA [10:03 mins.] Martín Espada Reading [6:59 mins.] Martín Espada Reads "San Sebastian" [3:59 mins.] "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100" [4:49 mins.] Espada Reading [24:47 mins.] Espada Reading [3:37 mins.] [Martín Espada reads "For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts Where My Cousin Esteban Was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks"] Martín Espada reads "The Day We Buried You in the Park" [3:43 mins.] Ann Tweedy Ann Tweedy Reads [5:25 mins.] Michael Blumenthal What Is the Value of Art? [7:33 mins.] [An interview with philosophy professor, Sharon ] Pt2 [3:45 mins.] [on reading literature and fiction] Michael Blumenthal reads his poetry at West Virginia University [3:12 mins.] The Road Not Taken--Twice [59:50 mins.] Michael Sowder Michael Sowder, "That Drink" [0:49 mins.] A Reading [25:18 mins.] Michael Sowder reads at Helicon West [11:14 mins.] Pt2 [8:20 mins.] M.C. Bruce Talking to Potential Clients about Being a Criminal Lawyer [6:39 mins.] Videos | Audio | Lawyer Poets David E. Cowen Interview [44:01 mins.] Reading poems from The Madness of Empty Spaces [20:54 mins.] [author of The Madness of Empty Spaces] Last Concert Cafe Reading [9:40 mins.] Monica Youn Interview & Reading [57:35 mins.] [audio] Gowri Koneswaran Featured Artist at Family Style Open Mic [11:09 mins.] Hope Spoken Broken poem [1:57 mins.] [Gowri K. is a Sri Lankan Tamil American poet, performing artist, and lawyer based in Washington, DC.] Anne Ballard Anne Ballard reads some of her poems [16:56 mins.] James Weldon Johnson Reading "The Creation" [4:26 mins.] Poets I Read Before I Found the Lawyer Poets Robert Bly: Bly Reads Kabir [1:56 mins.] | Bly Reads Rumi [2:16 mins.] [begin the video at 0:08 mins.] | Bly Reads Rumi 2 [3:08 mins.] | Bly Reading 3 Poems [5:04 mins.] | Cornelius Eddy Interview [28:48 mins.] | Bly Interview with Bill Moyers [27:21 mins.] Wendell Berry: Berry Reads "A Poem on Hope" [5:31 mins.] | Berry Reads "The Peace of Wild Things" [1:01 mins.] A Poet Who Enchants: Coleman Barks Opening the Heart Through Ecstatic Poetry: Coleman Barks [21:08 mins.] One Through Love [9:15 mins.] Rumi read by Coleman Barks [1:14 mins.] Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Interview [32:09 mins.]   Lawyers and Literature Home Page