Contemporary Lawyer Poets
United States
[The poets
whose brief bios appear on this page are either practicing lawyers,
or obtained their law degree and pursued other interests.]
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Cassie MacDonald
Cassie MacDonald is a lawyer but is no longer involved in legal work. She now lives in Philadelphia, by way of Portland, Oregon. She received her B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado, her J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School and returned to Philadelphia to in 1998 to write her family history.
James P. MacElree II
James MacElree is a Chester County, Pennsylvania Common Pleas Judge. He has, according to an article which appeared in The Legal Intelligencer (Vol. 221, September 22, 1999), been writing poetry since he was seven years old.
Lori L. Mach
Lori Mach grew up in small-town, rural Iowa and graduated from Drake University. She then moved east to attend Yale Law School, where she graduated in 1995. Following graduation, she moved to Philadelphia and became a Philadelphia Lawyer: a public defender. She has been with the Defender Association of Philadelphia for nine years. For the first seven years, she was a trial attorney, handling all types of criminal cases. For the last two years, she has been in the appellate unit. She co-hosts a weekly case-discussion forum for attorneys in the office and coaxes participation through e-mails that attempt to be topical, witty and occasionally, poetic. Because she is a mother of young children, she has no free time or hobbies.
Mach was born 1970. She obtained her B.A. at Drake University, and was admitted to practice law in 1995.
John MacLean
John MacLean was an assistant district attorney. His poems have appeared in The Lyric, Avocet, and The Road Not Taken.
Samuel D. Magavern
Sam Magavern teaches law at the University of Buffalo Law School.
He was born and raised in Buffalo, graduated from Harvard College
and UCLA Law School. His poetry has appeared in Poetry,
Paris Review, Partisan Review, Beloit Poetry Journal,
Green Mountains Review, Salamander, Antioch
Review, College English, Mudfish, River
Oak Review, and New Press Quarterly. His non-fiction
book, Primo Levi's Cosmos, will be published by Palgrave
Macmillan in 2009.
Desirée Magney
Desirée Magney is a former practicing attorney who writes narrative nonfiction and poetry. Her poetry has appeared in Jellyfish Whispers and was included in the anthology, Storm Cycle 2015: The Best of Kind of a Hurricane Press. She lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Michael Maguire
Michael Maguire, of Austin and Marfa, is a Texas lawyer and poet.
Mary Claire Mahaney
Mary Claire Mahaney was born in 1954 in Warren, Ohio. She received
her B.A. from the College of Mount Saint Joseph in 1976, and her
law degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1979.She
practiced law in Cincinnati and taught business law at the University
of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan. She has, for over
20 years, been a resident of McLean Virginia. She is the author
of Osaka Heat, a novel, and various short stories, essays,
and poems.
Kelly Hansen Maher
Kelly Maher is a writer, poet, teacher and attorney. She lives in northeast Minneapolis. Maher holds a BFA in theater from Emerson College, and a JD from
the University of Minnesota. Her poems have been published in literary
journals, and her plays have been staged in Seattle, Portland, and New York City. She is reportedly
at work on her first full-length poetry collection, and a book of personal nonfiction.
Phillip Mahony
Phillip Mahony spent 22 years on the New York City Police Department. In 2005, he graduated from New York Law School and has joined a major New York law firm. He is the editor of From Both Sides Now, an anthology of Vietnam War-related poetry published by Scribeners in 1998.
Myra Malkin
Myra Malkin grew up in Brooklyn and attended Radcliffe College. She then studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, returned to New York, where she was a founding member of a small off-off-Broadway company, the New Repertory Company. She moved to Ithaca, New York, and obtained her law degree from Cornell Law School and, for fifteen years, worked as a legal services attorney in Ithaca. She now lives in New York City and is a longtime member of the New York Poetry Dogs. Malkin is the author of No Lifeguard on Duty (Main Street Rag Publ., 2010).
Ginger Mance
Ginger Mance is a Chicago lawyer. Her poetry has appeared in various literary magazines and in Say That the River Turns: The Impact of Gwendolyn Brooks (Third World Press, 1987).
William L. Manchee
William Manchee was born on August 22, 1947 at Ventura, California.
He was educated at the UCLA, receiving his B.A. degree in 1969.
He received his law degree from Southern Methodist University in
1975. He began the practice of law in Dallas in 1976 and now operates
the firm, Manchee & Manchee, in Dallas. Manchee served in the
U.S. Marine Corps in 1970. He is the author of mystery, suspense
and adventure novels including Undaunted (Top Publications,
1998), Brash Endeavor (Research Triangle Publishing, 1998);
Twice Tempted (Top Publications, 1999), Death Pact
(Top Publications, 1999), Second Chair (Top Publications,
2000), Trouble in Trinidad (Top Publications, 2001), Ca$h
Call (Top Publications, 2002), Plastic Gods (Top Publications,
2003). A collection of Manchee's poetry, Case Call Mystery
was published in 2002. Manchee is also the author of Yes, We're
Open Defending the Small Business Under Siege (Top Publications,
2003) a how-not-to-do-it book for small business owners.
Vicki Mandell-King
Vicki Mandell-King has been a criminal defense attorney for the
Federal Public Defenders for over 25 years. Her poetry has appeared
in Kalliope, Margie, Parnassus Journal, and
Plainsongs. She resides in Louisville, Colorado. [YouTube--presentation
of poems]
W. Adam Mandelbaum
Adam Mandelbaum is a New York attorney, from Oyster Bay, practicing
in the fields of criminal and divorce law. He is also the author
of The Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult
Complex (St. Martins, 2000), the first extensive history of
psychic spying. His poetry has been aired nationwide on "The Romantic
Hours," a syndicated show, and has appeared in various publications
and on the web.
C.P. Mangel
C.P. Mangel, Chapel Hill, North Carolina resident was corporate counsel for
a pharmaceutical company
for over twenty years. Her poetry has appeared in Arch and Quiver, Cold Mountain Review, and Sojourner.
Frederic Fairfield Manget
Selma Mann
Selma Mann
is a poet, teacher, and attorney. Mourning Cloak (Premiere Sortie, 2013)
is her first book of poetry. Mann lives in Newport Beach, California.
Bryan Manno
Bryan Manno practices law in South Florida. He is the author of collection of poetry, Behind the Broken Glass (PublishAmerican, 2006).
Vincent J. Marconi
Vincent Marconi is a lawyer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Eric T. Marin
[Eric
T. Marin website]
Travis Marker
Travis Marker practices law in Ogden, Utah. Marker organized a “Literature
and the Law” conference in n St. George, Utah, in October 2011 and
has worked with law societies and bar associations across the United
States to promote literature as a resource in the practice and study
of law.
Barry S. Marks
Barry Marks was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February
24, 1952. He is a Birmingham, Alabama corporate lawyer specializing
in equipment leasing and specialized financing with Baker, Donelson,
Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC. Marks was raised in Miami and
spent summers as a youth in the Appalachian mountains in South Carolina.
He attended Emory University where he obtained his B.A. in 1974
and in 1976, his J.D. from the University of Florida. In 1985 he
obtained an LL.M. in Taxation from Emory University. Marks' poetry
has appeared in The Lyric, Folio, Word Wrights,
Black River, Poetry Motel, Jewish Spectator,
Calliope and other literary journals and hee has recently
served as President of the Alabama State Poetry Society. He is the
author of Possible Crocodiles (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2010),
There is Nothing Oppressive as a Good Man (Dancing Rabbit
Press, 2005), and with fellow Alabama poets, Poems from the Big
Table (Churn Dash Press, 2007)(poetry by Jerri Beck, Robert
Boliek, Suzanne Coker, Irene Latham, & Barry Marks). [Source:
Personal communication with Barry S. Marks] [selection of poems from Possible Crocodiles] ["Why I Write" -- YouTube video] ["My Story" -- YouTube video] ["Window -for Lauren" -- YouTube video] ["I Am Convinced That There Are Colors I Cannot See" -- YouTube video]
Walter Maroney
Walter Maroney is a lawyer, poet, short story writer, and novelist
(his novels await publication). He lives in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Maroney describes himself as: "Lawyer, poet, failed comedian,
dilettante."
Al Marquis
Al Marquis is a practicing trial lawyer with the Las Vegas law firm,
Marquis & Aurbach for some 25 years. He is the author of Frivolous
Cowboy Poetry: "These Here Stories Are All True (Mostly)"(Pine
Orchard Press, 2002)
Philip M. Marston
Philip Marston is an Alexandria, Virginia lawyer.
Alicia O. Martin
Anna Martinez
Esteban A. Martinez
Martinez practices law in Thornton, Colorado. He obtained his
law degree earned his law degree from the University of Denver College
of Law and a Master's Degree in English from the University of Colorado.
His first novel, In
Memory of Gods and Heroes, was published in 2002. One of
his poems, "Old Addicts," was published in 34 (4) The
Colorado Lawyer 27 (2005). He has served as a Colorado Assistant
Attorney General and taught legal writing, and law & literature
at the University of Denver College of Law. [Esteban
A. Martinez] [Esteban's
Blog] ["Child
of Mine"] ["I
Don't Know Any Angels"--hort fiction]
Alys Masek
Alys Masek was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in various locales in southern California. She graduated from the University of Califonria-Riverside and attended the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco where she lived for many years. She practices environmental law and lives in San Diego. Masek's poetry has appeared in Noe Valley Review and City Works Journal.
C. Todd Mason
C. Todd Mason is a Memphis, Tennessee lawyer. He is associated with the law firm, Nahon, Saharovich & Trotz. Mason was born in Memphis. Following his graduation from law school he worked as a session attorney for the 102nd Tennessee General Assembly and then returned to the private practice of law. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee in 1996 and is a graduate of the Cecil C. Humpreys School of Law (Memphis).
Leo Masursky
Leo Masursky is in the public defender's office, Tucson, Arizona
Priscilla Jane Mattison
Jill Mattoon
Jill Matton is a judge in the Administrative Hearings division of the Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration in Pueblo and has served that office since 1999. Mattoon graduated from the University of Colorado in 1981 and from California Western School of Law in 1984. She previously served in the Pueblo District Attorney's Office from 1985 through 1993, and in 1994, she joined the law firm of Petersen, Fonda, Farley, Mattoon, Crockenberg & Garcia, P.C. Her poem, "Untitled," was published in 34 (4) The Colorado Lawyer 27 (2005).
Joy Maulitz
"Joy Maulitz lives in San Francisco, where she practices criminal law and hosts an author interview program on a community ration station." [Source: Rattle No. 27 (Summer, 2007)]
Michael Mautner
Michael Mautner is a longtime Napa, California resident and veteran Deputy District Attorney. He recieved his B.A. from UC-Berkeley and his law degree from California Western School of Law.
David May
"David May is a jazz bassist, entertainment attorney and personal manager for film composers in the Los Angeles area. Her performs regularly with pianist/composer, Geoffrey Aymar, in the original jazz group, aymar/may, as well as with such jazz artists as Barbara Morrison, Sam Most, Ron Eschete, Thelma Jones and Sherwood Sledge . . . . Born in 1956, he is [a] graduate of Augustana College and USC Law School, married, and father of eight children." [Source: David May, Love and the Persistence of Illusion (AuthorHouse, 2005)]
Bill Mayo
William Mayo is an Arkansas lawyer and self-described "avid
amateur" poet. He attended law school at the University of
Arkansas and was the founder and first publisher of a poetry journal,
Poesia. He also founded the Indian
Bay Press. Mayo was born in 1953; he was admitted to practice
in 1980.
Bruce McBirney
Bruce McBirney obtained his B.A. in English from Loyola Marymount University and his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley. He has been practicing in Los Angeles since 1979. His poems have appeared in America, Measure, Spillway, The Formalist, The Lyric, and in the anthology, Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets (University of Evansville Press, 2005).
Greg McBride
Greg McBride was born in San Diego, California, in 1945, and
left five weeks later to begin a peripatetic childhood following
his Army father throughout the U.S. and overseas. McBride is a graduate
of Princeton University (1967), a Vietnam veteran (where he served
as an Army photographer in 1969), a graduate of Georgetown University
Law Center (1974).
A 2003 Jenny McKean Moore Fellow in Poetry at George Washington University, McBride is a former wrestler, and wan Army photographer in the Vietnam War. He retired December 31, 2004 from his position as Deputy Chief Counsel of the Federal Transit Administration, at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
McBride began his non-legal writing in his mid-50s.
His poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Baltimore Review,
Potomac Review, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature,
Minimus, and WordWrights. His poetry has also appeared
in two anthologies: A Common Bond: Poetry and Prose by American
and Vietnamese Veterans of the Vietnam War (Founders Hill Press, 2002) and the Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller’s Cabin, 1984-2001 (Word Works, 2003).
His essay on winning a Pennsylvania state wrestling championship
in 1963 appears in the autumn 2003 issue of Gettysburg Review.
McBride is editor of The
Innisfree Poetry Journal: An Online Journal of Contemporary Poetry.
[Source: Personal communication with Greg McBride]
[Greg
McBride]
RJ McCaffery
R.J. McCaffery graduated from Georgetown
University Law School and worked for several years as a Public Defender in Miami. He is now has a law practice in New York and Florida. He is know is some circles for his poetry/legal blog "Scoplaw." McCaffery's poetry includes Anchor Ice (2003), The Hymnal Week (2002), Chaos Theory and the Knuckleballer (2000), and
Ice Sculpture of Mermaid With Cigar (Three Candles Press, 2006)
McCaffery is a graduate of
Providence College,
and obtained an M.F.A. at Sarah Lawrence. His poetry has been published in Ploughshares, New Books, The Atlanta Review, and the online edition of The Norton Anthology of Literature. [RJ McCaffery] [Scoplaw-a blog] [Source: Personal communication with McCaffery]
Wallace McCall
Wallace McCall is a personal injury lawyer practicing in Jupiter,
Florida. His first collection of poetry, Armadillo Armageddon
and Other Collected Poems was published in 2003.
McCall was born on February 12, 1947 in Greensboro,
North Carolina but grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. He obtained
his degree in political science from the University of the South,
Sewanee, Tennessee in 1969 and his J.D. from Stetson University
School of Law in 1979. [Source: Personal communication
with Wallace McCall]
Elizabeth R. McClellan
Elizabeth McClellan is a Tennessee lawyer and poet. [McClellan's website]
James McCobb
James McCobb is a Portland, Oregon attorney [Source:
Melody
Finnemore, Versus to Verses, Oreg. St. B. Bull. (July 2006)]
Shaunna Oteka McCovey
Shaunna McCovey
holds a degree in environmental law and is a staff attorney for the Yurok Tribe in Humboldt County. McCovey grew up on the Yurok Indian reservation in Northern California. She attended Humboldt State University, and obtained a Master's Degree from Arizona State. Her law degree is from Vermont Law School. McCovey is the author of a chapbook, Swim You Every River, and a collection of poetry, The Smokehouse Boys (Heyday Books). [Native Wiki][bio]["Capitalists?"] ["Conspiracy Theory"]
Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Harvard Law
School. His poems have appeared in New Orleans Review,
Octopus, Orion, Columbia Poetry Review,
Colorado Review, and African American Review.
He is the author of the following poetry collections: Nonfiction (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), Forgiveness Forgiveness (Factory Hollow Press, 2014), Blood (Noemi Press, 2013), Mule (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), In Canaan (Rescue Press, 2010), He lives in Iowa City, Iowa. [Wikipeda] [Three
poems] [Two
poems]
Judith McDaniel
Judith McDaniel obtained her law degree from Rutgers Law School and Her Ph.D in English literature from Tufts University. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Taking Risks (Rising Tides Press, 2001) and November Woman (The Loft Press, 1983) and several novels.
Thomas W. McDaniel
McDaniel was born in 1946, obtained his undergraduate degree
from Rhodes College and his J.D. from the University of Memphis.
He is now a lawyer in Memphis.
Susan Schaefer McDevitt
Susan McDevitt is a native of New Mexico and a long-time resident
of Santa Fe. Her poems have been published in various venues, including
the Santa Fe Literary Review.
David McDonald
David McDonald is executive director of the World Press Institute
in St. Paul, Minnesota. We discovered his poem, "The Power
of Titles" online, and learned of another poem that appears
in Sidewalks.
Theodore N. McDonald, Jr.
Partner in the law firm, Smith, Gambrell & Russell in Atlanta,
Georgia; received his B.A from Davidson College in 1979, his M.S.W.
from the University of Georgia in 1982, and his J.D. from Emory
in 1987. ["Vanishing"]
Meredith McKell Graff
[Meredith McKell Graff law firm profile]
Betsy McKenzie
Betsy McKenzie is Professor of Law and Director of the John Joseph Moakley Library, Suffolk University Law School. She is a 1981 law graduate of the University of Kentucky. [Poyetry-a blog]
Stephen McLeod
Stephen McLeod is the author of Borgo of the Holy Ghost (Utah State University Press, 2001). His poetry has appeared in APR, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. He lives in Brooklyn, where he served for some years as an Assistant District Attorney. He was educated at Southern Methodist University, Columbia University, and the Fordham University School of Law.
Patricia McMillen
Patricia McMillen is a lawyer, poet, and musician from Oak Park, Illinois. She obtained her BA from Brown University, a JD from the University of Chicago, and an MA (Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is the author of a collection of poems, Knife Lake Anthology (Pudding House Publications, 2006) and founding banjo player of The Common Taters string band. ["Forgiveness"]
John M. McNally
John McNally attended the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1972)
and obtained his law degree from Georgetown University (1976). He
was admitted to practice in 1976 and is now a member of the Washington,
D.C. law firm, Hawkins, Delafield & Wood. McNally is the author
of Northern Lights, a collection of poetry published by Washington
Writers' Publishing House in 1977. [For a newspaper
article on McNally and other Washington, D.C. area lawyer|poets,
see Myra Mensh Patner, "Motions and Meter Lawyers as Poets,"
Washington Post, March 13, 1980, p. D5]
Jack McEneny
Mark McPherson
Writer, poet, lawyer; received his J.D. from Harvard; author of
Your Best Face: Looking Your Best Without Plastic Surgery
(Hay House, 2002)(with Brandith Irwin).
Mark C. McPherson
Attorney with Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, Seattle
Washington [Mark
C. McPherson]
Tiara Faith McCray
John McVeigh
John McVeigh is a lawyer in Portland, Maine. [law firm profile]
Shivani Mehta
Shivani Mehta was born in Mumbai and raised in Singapore. She is a graduate of Hamilton College, and obtained her JD from the Syracuse University College of Law in 2002. Mehta lives in Los Angeles.
Her work has appeared in the Midwest Quarterly Review, Hotel Amerika, the Prose Poem Project, Mudfish Magazine, Fjord's Review, and Coachella Review.
David Melville
David Melville is a Portland, Oregon, lawyer and poet. His law practice specializes in civil appeals and business disputes. Earlier in his career, he was a legal aid lawyer, a federal law clerk, and taught as a visiting instructor at the University of Illinois. He received his law and undergraduate degrees from the University of Nebraska, and later in life, an M.A. in Liberal Studies from Reed College.
Sofia Memon
Sofia Memon lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennyslvania where she practices law in the areas of public benefits and language access. She received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law (2000) and a B.A. from New College of Florida (1996). She was born in St. Petersburg, Florida but was raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She is a second generation Pakistani-American.
Allen Mendenhall
Allen Mendenahll was raised in Marietta, Georgia and attended
Furman University. He received his J.D. from West Virginia University.
His poetry has appeared in The Aroostook Review, Tributaries,
The Echo, Splizz, and LSR. [Allen
Mendenhall]
Ellen Mendoza
Ellen Mendoza resides in Portland, Oregon. She is an attorney
with Legal Aid Services of Oregon. She graduated from the University
o Oregon law school in 1982 [source: Melody
Finnemore, Versus to Verses, Oreg. St. B. Bull. (July 2006)]
["Coefficient
of Friction"]
Darrel Menthe
Darrel Menthe is a graduate of Stanford Law School, 1996.
William Merkle
Myrna Amelia Mesa
Myrna Amelia Mesa is the daughter of Afro-Cuban political exiles
from the Bay of Pigs era, a first generation American, and a native
of Chicago. She received her B.A. from Loyola University (Chicago)
and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Mesa is a
practicing attorney in the Tidewater Virginia area and serves as
a Judge Advocate in the United States Army Reserve. She is the author
of a chapbook, Traveling Stones (Cervená Barva Press, 2006).
Kristin Messner
Kristin Messner received a B.A. in Creative Writing with an emphasis
in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. She attended
Pennsylvania State Dickinson School of Law and obtain her J.D. degree
in 2001. Messner lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where she practices
consumer bankruptcy law with her mother and sister. [Source: Personal communication with Kristin Messner] ["Word"]
Joyce Meyers
Joyce Meyers received her M.A. in English Literature from Syracuse
University and her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
She practiced law in Philadelphia for nearly thirty years where she focused on First Amendment
and intellectual property rights law. Her poetry has appeared in
White Pelican Review, Philadelphia Poets, Mad
Poets Rview, Endicott Review, and Schuylkill Valley
Journal of the Arts. Her chapbook Wild Mushrooms
was published by Plan B Press in 2007. A second collection of poetry, Shapes of Love was published by Finishing Line Press. She lives in Wallingford,
Pennsylvania.
George E. Micco
George Micco practices law in Killeen, Texas. He graduated from
St. Mary's University School of Law in 1999 and obtained his B.A.
from LaSalle University (Philadelphi).
Auriel Ibn Michell
Jeffrey Michelman
Jeffrey Michelman is an intellectual property lawyer with Blumenfeld,
Kaplan & Sandweiss, PC, in St. Louis. He received his B.A. from
Pennsylvania State University in 1964, and a master of engineering
from WashingtonUniversity in 1975. He obtained his J.D. in 1967
from Villanova University. He has a collection of poetry, titled
Peanut Butter on Bagel or Breast (Morrison Publishing,
2001). [Interview]
Jan Michelsen
Jan Michelsen is a native of Chicago, and attended Bradley University
where she received a degree in journalism in 1977. She worked at
Bradley University until 1982 as director of publications. She is
now director of hospital relations at Indiana University Medical
Center. She obtained her law degree in 1994 and joined Baker &
Daniels in Indianapolis, and then became associated with the Indianapolis
office of Ogletree Deakins. Michelsen's verse appears on greeting
cards, posters, and coffee mugs. [Source: Anthony
Schoettle, "Lawyer Strives for Poetic Justice," 22 (29)
Indianapolis Business Journal 67A (October 1, 2001)]
C.M. Millen
Cynthia Millen was born on October 28, 1955. She received her undergraduate
degree from Bowling Green State University in 1977 and her J.D.
from Northern Kentucky University in 1983 where she was editor-in-chief
of that school's law review. Millen was an instructor at the University
of Toledo College of Law (1983-1984) and guardian ad liteum for
the Toledo Juvenile Court (1984-1985). In 1986 she became house
counsel for St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo. She has been a
full-time poet and writer since 1991. She obtained an M.Litt. from
Trinity College (Dublin) in 1997. She resides in Toledo, Ohio. She
is the author of Ulster Out Loud! (Project Children, 1994),
Symphony for the Sheep (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996), Between
the Rhymes: A Collection of Poems (H.O.T. Graphic Services,
Inc., 1998), The Low-Down Laundry Line Blues (Houghton Miffin
Co., 1999), Blue Bowl Down: An Appalachian Rhyme (Candlewick
Press, 2004).
Alyce L. Miller
Alyce Miller is a professor in the English department, at Indiana
University and an attorney practicing animal law. She teaches graduate
and undergraduate creative writing courses in fiction and creative
nonfiction, and courses in contemporary literature, American literature,
women's literature, and screenwriting.
Her poems have appeared in Ascent, New
Letters, Witness, River Styx, Seneca Review, Slipstream, Puerto del Sol, Mangrove, and Graffiti
Rag. She is the author of more than fifty short stories, with
publication in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her first collection of stories, The Nature of Longing, was published
by University of Georgia Press in 1994, with subsequent publication
in paperback by W.W. Norton in 1995. Her novel, Stopping for Green
Lights, was published by Doubleday in 1999. Miller's essays
and non-fiction have appeared in Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, Fourth Genre, New Letters, Cream
City Review, Brevity, The Most Wonderful Books (Milkweed), Spirit and Place (Indiana University Press), River Styx, and Creating Fiction (an anthology published
by Story Press).
Her latest collection of stories, Water: Nine Stories, by Sarabande Press, was published in 2007.
Miller obtained her J.D. from Indiana University School
of Law in 2003; her MFA in Writing is from Vermont College, and
she has an M.A. in Film and an M.A. in English literature from San
Francisco State University. Her B.A. in English is from Ohio State
University.
Miller resides in Bloomington, Indiana and Sonoma
County, California. Miller was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and
lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay area.
[Source: Personal communication with Alyce Miller] [Professor
Alyce Miller] [Wikipedia]
[Water--a
collection of short stories-- 2007]
Frank Lewis Miller
Robert D. ("Jake") Miller
Robert Miller is an Assistant U.S. Trustee for the Bankruptcy Court
for the Eastern District of Washington (Spokane).
Thomas C. ("Doc") Miller
Doc Miller is a criminal defense lawyer. He obtained
his law degree from the Universityof Denver. [See:
Thomas C. ("Doc") Miller, "Living With Witches," 35 (9) The Colorado Lawyer 42 (2006)]
Janet T. Mills
Janet Mills serves in the Maine House of Representatives.
She was born and raised in Farmington, Maine. She received her J.D.
from the University of Maine Law School. In 1980, she was elected
district attorney, reputedly the first woman district attorney in
the northeastern United States. In 1995, she began the practice
of law in Skowhegan, Maine with her brother, S. Peter Mills, who
serves in the Maine Senate.
Paul L. Mills
Paul Mills is a 1990 graduate of Columbia University. He
obtained his law degree from UCLA. He is a sole practitioner focusing
on civil rights and criminal defense; he is a poet. Mills was associated
with Fusion Magazine in Boston, and was in the early 1980s
a Greenwich Village night club and street performer of poetry under
the name Poez. [poezthepoet.com]
Barbara Marie Minney
Bill Mitchell
Bill Mitchell is a Tampa, Florida lawyer, and poet. [Source:
Angela Moore, "Poets Share Their Living Art," St.
Petersburg Times, April 13, 2001]. Mitchell was born
in 1947. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Washington,
and his J.D. from the University of California.
Lamar K. Mitchell
Lamar Mitchell is a poet and painter. He is managing member and
'of counsel' to the law firm of Kamark K. Mitchell, LLC. He was
educated at Millsaps College in Jackson, Missippi, and attended
Harvard University Divinity School and Oxford University in Oxford,
England where he was awarded a Master of Philosophy degree. He obtained
his J.D. from Emory Law School. His law firm is located in Decatur,
Georgia.
Lawrence Mitchell
Lawrence Mitchell is a professor of law at Case Western Reserve. ["Perfect Love" :: video] ["Sticks and Stones" :: video] ["True North" :: video] ["Sympathy for a Suicide":: video]
Joseph Mockus
Joseph Mockus, born in 1952, is a San Francisco Bay area criminal
defense lawyer. He is also a rock 'n roll drummer and a poet. His
poetry, as we learned of it, appeared in r-kv-r-y: a quarterly
literary journal (2004). Mockus was admitted to law practice
in 1986. He obtained his B.A. from the University of California
and his J.D. from Hastings College of Law. [Poems]
[Poems]
Anita Mohan
Anita Mohan is a lawyer, poet and novelist who lives in Mountain
View, California. Her first collection of poetry, Letters to
an Albatross was published by Blaze Vox Books in 2010.
Sonia Alisa Montalbano
Sonia Montalbano was born in 1969. She obtained her B.A. degree
from Hunter College of the City University of New York, and her
J.D. degree from Northwestern School of Law. She was admitted to
practice in 1997 and now resides in Portland, Oregon where she works
as a litigator for Portland's Elliott Ostrander Presto. [Source:
Personal communication with Sonia Montalbano]
Travis Montez
Travis Montez, a native of Nashville, Tennessee is now a New Yorker and a performance poet. He obtained his law degree from
New York University School of Law. Montez is the author of Reluctant Poet (Lulu, 2006). [Travis Montez]
Bel-Ami Jean De Montreux
Bel-Ami Montreux obtained a J.D. degree from the University of Utah
in 1991. He has published a collection of French poetry titled La
Chanson de Bel-Ami. While at the University of Utah, Montreux
edited the Utah Foreign Language Review and the Neo-Analyst
and wrote for the Daily Utah Chronicle. Montreux practices
law at the Montreux Law Offices in Salt Lake. [Source:
Personal communication with Bel-Ami Montreux]
Montreux is a former seminarian at the St-Vincent Foundation in Cap Haitian, Haiti. His legal practice consists of complex criminal defense, Constitutional litigation, and Title VII litigation. de Montreux studied at Texas A&M, Westminster College, and the University of Utah. At the University of Utah, de Montreux was editor-in-chief of the Utah Foreign Language Review, senior editor of the Journal of Contemporary Law and the Journal of Energy, Natural Resources, and Environmental Law. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Poèsie I and Rimbaud-Neruda in France, and Le Nouvelliste in Haiti; his poetry appears in several anthologies of Haitian poets.
James M. Moose
Jim Moose is a retired lawyer. He served as an administrative law
judge in California for 37 years. He is active in the Sacramentao
Poets group and self-published a collection of poems titled Hotchpot.
Moose is a graduate of UC Berkeley and its law school.
Alexandra Moses
Alexandra Moses is sculptor, lawyer and poet. She studied poetry
and art at Mills College.
Lois Moses
Lois Moses was born in Philadelphia. She is a 1997 graduate of Temple University School of Law, and has a degree in clinical psychology from LaSalle University. Moses has self-published three collections of poetry: Not Just Another; Black/Woman, Missing Pages; Women Behind the Glass Door, A Timely Trinity. [Lois Moses]
William Mosolino
William Mosolino is a lawyer, author, poet, and actor. He resides
in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. He was born September 14, 1933. He
obtained his A.B. degree from Muhlenberg College and his law degree
from the University of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to law practice
in 1962.
G.H. Mosson
G. H. Mosson, Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing
Line Press, 2019).
Alexandra Moses
Karen Moulding
Karen Moulding received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and was an activist lawyer and editor of a biannually-updated legal treatise, Sexual Orientation and the Law. Moulding is the author of a novel, The Untrainable Heart. She also writes and publishes poetry.
Jesse Mountjoy
Jesse Mountjoy is a native of Horse Cave, Kentucky and a 1965 graduate of Centre College of Danville, Kentucky, and a 1969 graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law. His first job out of law school—after being admitted to the bar in 1970—was a four year stint as senior trial attorney for the Internal Revenue Service, Regional Counsel’s Office, Cincinnati, Ohio where he tried cases in the U.S. Tax Court. After working with the IRS, Mountjoy moved to Owensboro, Kentucky, where he has practiced tax law in the same firm for thirty-one years.
Mountjoy’s poetry has been published in Open
24 Hours, Wind Magazine, The Sow’s Ear Poetry
Review, Kentucky Poetry Review, Approaches,
Adena and The Small Pond Magazine of Literature.
Mountjoy claims a fondness for Flaubert’s assertion that “Every
lawyer carries within himself the debris of a poet.” He tells
us, by way of a paraphrase of Wallace Stevens: If in fact as a lawyer
I am a ‘rationalist,’ I have at least abandoned ‘square
hats’ for ‘sombreros.’
Linda Moye
San Antonio, Texas
Beth Mulcah
Sandra C. Muñoz
Sandra Muñoz is an East L.A. poet, playwright and civil rights lawyer.
Muñoz is the author of Free Metal Woman (Red Calacarts,
2004).
Richard M. Nager
Richard M. Nager is the author of three collections of poetry, Water Up Ahead (Jay Street Publishers, 1994), Eternal Breakfast (Jay Street Publishers, 1997), and Poetry Sanctuary: Collected Poesm 1976-2003 (Jay Street Publishers, 2004). Nager is, so far as we can determine, a senior court attorney in the New York County Criminal Court.
Alicia Nails
Alicia Nails is a rofessional fund raiser and events planner, attorney,
and television producer. She resides in Detroit.
Shankar Narayan
Shankar Narayan is the author of a collection of poetry titled,
Postcards from the New World (Paper Nautilus Press, 2018).
[Seattle
University School of Law faculty profile]
Philip Tajitsu Nash
Philip Nash was born on December 3, 1956 in New York City. He
is a civil rights activist, lawyer, teacher, and writer. Nash received
a degree from New York University and his J.D. from Rutgers University
School of Law. Nash has written short stories, plays, and poetry.
[Source: "Philip Tajitsu Nash," in Notable
Asian Americans (Gale Research, 1995)]
Michael Nava
Michael Nava, a third generation Mexican-American, was born
in 1954 and who grew up in Sacramento, California. Since 1986 he
has authored a series of mysteries based on a California-based gay
Mexican-American attorney, Henry Rios. Four of the first six books
in the series won Lambda Literary Awards. Nava attended Colorado
College where he obtained his BA degree in 1976. He received his
law degree from Stanford University in 1981. He served as deputy
city attorney in Los Angeles from 1981 to 1984 and then entered
private practice (1984-1986). From 1986 to 1995 he served as research
attorney with the California Court of Appeals. Nava moved to San
Francisco in 1995. [Source of Biographical Information:
UCLA Department of Special Collections] [See:
Three Poets: James Byers, Michael Nava, David Owen (BON Press,
1975)]
J. Alan Nelson
J. Alan Nelson, a writer and a lawyer in Waco, Texas, has essays, stories, and poetry published widely in California Quarterly, Wisconsin Review, Adirondack Review, Hawai'i Review, Kennesaw Review, Illya's Honey, Fulcrum, Connecticut River Review, Blue Fifth Review, and American Scholar.
Nehru Rodriquez Nelson
Nehru Nelson is a lawyer, poet, lyricist, songwriter, jazz enthusiast,
and composer. He was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
and currently resides in Cheltenham. He has been writing and performing
poetry for over thirty years. He is also currently working on a
collection of poetry, tentatively titled The Street is My Father.
[Three
poems]
Patricia Nelson
Patricia Nelson is an attorney and poet. She has acquired two
LLM degrees and holds
an SJD in international law. She serves as a consultant for the
Public Trust
Alliance.
Paul Nemser (1950-2023)
Paul Nemser was born in Portland, Oregon. He was associated
with the Boston law firm, Goodwin Procter. Nemser is the author
of Taurus (New American Press, 2013), and a chapbook of
prose poems, Tales of the Tetragrammaton (Mayapple Press,
2014). Nemser has degrees from Harvard College, Columbia University
School of the Arts, and Boston University School of Law. Nemser
lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Harborside, Maine.
Leslie B. Neustadt
Leslie B. Neustadt was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. She
received her B.A. in History from the University of Rochester and
her J.D. from Temple University School of Law in 1976. A former
Assistant Attorney General for the state of New York, she retired
from that office. Her written work has been published in Akros
Review, peer glass, Prick of the Spindle Journal of
Literary Arts, r.kv.r.y. Magazine, Cure Magazine,
and Lies, Boasts and Feelings. She is a designer of beaded
jewelry, a collage artist, and the author of Bearing Fruit:
A Poetic Journey (Spring Wind Press, 2014).
Robert Newman
Robert Newman is a attorney and poet. He resides in Rogers, Arkansas. [Source: Contibutor's bio, 3 Poeisa 56 (January, 2005)]
Newman was born in 1965. He attended State University
of New York at Albany, and received his J.D. from Ohio Northern
University. He was admitted to practice in 1995.
Alan Nichols
Alan Nichols practiced law in San Francisco for some 50 years and served as president of the San Francisco School Board and City College of San Francsico. Nichols was born in 1930. He was educated at Stanford and received his law degree from the Stanford Law School. He has taken an active interest in the affairs of Tibet, and has written articles, poetry, a screenplay, and other publications on Tibet. [Alan Nichols]
Robert R. Nielsen
Robert Nielsen is Salinas, California attorney, photographer
and poet. He was born in 1944, obtained his A.B. degree from Stanford
University, and his J.D. from Columbia University. He was admitted
to practice law in 1971.
Timothy J. Nolan
Timothy Nolan was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1954. He
graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1978 with a B.A. in
English. He and his wife Kate moved to New York City in 1978 where
he obtained an M.F.A. degree in writing from Columbia University,
worked as an archivist at the Whitney Museum, and read the poetry
slush pile for Paris Review. He returned to Minnesota in
1985 and received his J.D. degree from William Mitchell College
of Law in 1989. His poems have appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares,
and Poetry East, and other journals. Nolan's first published collection of poems,
The Sound of It, was published by New Rivers Press in 2008. A new collection, And Then, will be published by New Rivers Press in 2012.
In 2001, Nolan published
an article in the South Dakota Law Review entitled "Poetry
and the Practice of Law." [Source: Personal
communication with Tim Nolan] [Tim
Nolan Reading] [The
Poetry of Tim Nolan]
William L. Norine
Jerome Norris
Jerome Norris, a retired journalist and lawyer lives near
New Bern, North Carolina. His poems and short stories have been
published in Tarheel Poetry, Thema, The Rambler,
Seven Hills Review, Shoal, Pinesong,
and in an Old Mountain Press anthology.
Peter Noterman
Peter Noterman is a choreographer, lawyer, and poet. He resides
in the Washington, D.C. area.
Carol Novack
Carol Novack
graduated from University of Rochester in 1969, and from New York Law School in 1983. She began her legal career as an associate appellate counsel with the Criminal Appeals Bureau of the Legal Aid Society. She then became an associate for an attorney representing a defendant in the famous Pizza Connection trial (SDNY). Later, as a solo practitioner, she initiated a constitutional action on behalf of visual artists, prevailing in a seminal first amendment case, Bery v. City Of New York.
In 2004, Novack obtained her Master's Degree from Hunter College School of Social Work. The title of her mini-thesis was: "Exploring a Dramatic Group Work Approach to Meet the Psychosocial Needs of Distressed, Public-Interest Minded Attorneys." After obtaining her master's degree, and years of writing little else beside legal briefs and motions, Novack returned to poetry and fiction writing. Before becoming a lawyer, Novack authored a book of poetry in Australia, Living Alone Without a Dictionary (Maker Press, 1974). Her writings have appeared in The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, American Letters & Commentary, Action Yes, First Intensity, Gargoyle, LIT, Notre Dame Review, Diagram, Big Bridge, BlazeVOX, Del Sol Review, 5_trope, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Knock, La Petite Zine, MILK, Orphan Leaf Review, Otoliths, Salt River Review, Segue, and Word Riot. Novack teaches lyrical fiction writing and publishes the offbeat multimedia e-journal Mad Hatters' Review. She is the author of an illustrated collection of fictions, fusions, monologues and poems titled, Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack (Spuyten Duyvil 2010). [blog][inventions]
Charisse Carney-Nunes
"Charisse Carney-Nunes, freelance writer and attorney, is a [an] alumna of Lincold University in Pennsylvnaia—the nation's oldest historically Black college, where she was the Poet Laureate of the University for two years. She is also a graduate of Harvard University's JFK School of Government and the Harvard Law School. . . . . [She] resides in Wahsington, D.C. . . ." [Source: Charissee Carney-Nunes, Songs of a Sistermom: Motherhood Poems (Brand Nu Words, 2004)]
Robert H. Nunnally, Jr.
Robert Nunnally, Jr. is a commercial litigation attorney from Allen,
Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Arkansas (physics)
and of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law.
Nunnally has been writing poetry for 25 years and has been published in various literary magazines. He is the author of a chapbook, Chess Poems for the Tournament Player (GurdonArk Books, 1999). [Robert Nunnally]
Leslie B. Neustadt
Nina Nuyorican
Nina Nuyorican was raised in the Hudson Valley (New York) and spent her summers in the Lower East Side with her abuelita). After graduating from Columbia Law School she took up residence in Florida. She is currently editing a collection of poetry and in 2005 became an adjunct professor at Florida State University. Her academic work focuses on human rights, genocide and international adjudication. From 2003 until 2005 she hosted the Dia de los Muertos poetry readings at Columbia University. [blog]
Jamie Nye
Jamie Nye was a lawyer iu the San Francisco Bay area practicing in the area of intellectual property and general commercial litigation when she decided to change careers. She began working at the University of California-San Diego in student services in 2005. She writes both poetry and screenplays.
Jim Nye
Jim Nye is an Albuquerque, New Mexico lawyer, poet, & essayist.
Nye's collection of Vietnam War poetry, After Shock: Poems and
Prose from the Vietnam War (Cinco Puntus Press, 1991) takes
those willing to get close to the carnage of war, as close as poetry
can get you.
Shari O'Brien
Shari O'Brien is a lecturer in English at the University of Toledo and a practicing attorney. She obtained her M.A. from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University. Her law degree is from the University of Toledo. She represents neglected and abused children. O'Brien's Uncaged, a collection of poems, was published by Shadows Ink Publications in 2006. She began writing poetry in 2004; her poems have been published in Chaffin, The 13th Moon, Wavelength, Poesia, The Iconclast, Illya's Honey, Blue Unicorn, Crosscurrents, and in the Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. Source: Personal communication with Shari O'Brien]
Thomas H. Oehmke
Thomas Oehmke (his name is pronounced em-kee) was born on November
13, 1947 in Detroit Michigan. He did graduate work at Michigan State
University and obtained his law degree in 1973 from Wayne State
University. He was admitted to the Michigan Bar in 1973 and formed
the law firm Oehmke Legal Associates in Detroit the year he was
admitted to the bar. From 1973 to 1979 he served as political economist
and project director for New Detroit, Inc., and beginning in 1978,
publisher of the American Law Research Institute (a law book publishing
company). He has served on various commissions and conducted seminars
and lectured on law and business topics. Oehmke has written numerous
texts for legal practitioners and is editor of Herman Hesse,
Poetry of Siddhartha (Labyrinth, 1981). He has contributed short
fiction and poetry to various journals.
Wilson Reid Ogg
Wilson Ogg is a poet, lyricist, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator,
educator, and curator-in-residence of Pinebrook, an historic house
and garden in the Berkeley Hills, Berkeley, California.
He was educated at the University of California and Boalt
Hall School of Law, Berkeley. His poetry is published in anthologies
in America and abroad. Ogg was born in 1928. [Homepage]
[Wilson Ogg]
Bobbie O'Keefe
Bobbie O'Keefe practices law in Columbus, Ohio. She was born and
raised in South Bend, Indiana and moved to Ohio in 1974. She graduated
from Miami University (Ohio) in 1978. She graduated from Capital
University Law School in 1992. She is a trained mediator. Her creative
writing has appeared in various magazines, and her poetry can be
found in the Ohio Poet's Anthology.
Adrian Oktenberg
Adrian Oktenberg was born in Oakland, California in 1947.
She has produced a radio show, taught law courses, lectured on women's studies, and owned a bookstore. She was educated as both a poet and a lawyer. She now resides in Northhampton, Massachusetts.
She is the author of three collections of poetry, Drawing in the Dirt (Malachite & Agate, 1997), The Bosnia Elegies (Paris Press, 1997), and Swimming With Dolphins (Bucknell University Press, 2002). Her poetry, criticism, and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, The American Voice, Women's Review of Books, New Letters and The Devil's Millhopper. [Swimming With Dolphins] [Review of The Bosnia Elegies] [Poems—Legal Studies Forum (2006)]
Daniel A. Olivas
Daniel A. Olivas is the author of six books including the novel, The Book of Want (University of Arizona Press, 2011). Things We Do Not Talk About: Exploring Latino/a Literature Through Essays and Interviews is forthcoming from San Diego State University Press. His fiction, poetry and essays have appeared Exquisite Corpse, PANK, Pilgrimage, Fairy Tale Review, MacGuffin, PALABRA, and Bilingual Review. He has also written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, El Paso Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and La Bloga. Olivas is the editor of Latinos in Lotusland (Bilingual Press, 2008), which brings together 60 years of Los Angeles fiction by Latino/a writers. His work has been anthologized in Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America, and Hint Fiction: Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, both published by W. W. Norton. Since 1990, Olivas has practiced law in the Public Rights Division of the California Department of Justice. He makes his home in Los Angeles. Olivas received his B.A.
from Stanford University and his J.D. from
the UCLA. [Source: Personal communication with Daniel A. Olivas] [Daniel A. Olivas] ["Gato"] ["Pico Boulevard, October 1972"] Stories: ["Buridan's Ass"] ["Black Box"] ["Painting"] ["Muy Loca Girl"]
Danitra Oliver
Danitra Oliver is with the firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges. She
is a spoken-word poet.
James John Oliver
E R Olsen
E R Olsen practices law in Nevada. His poems have appears in various journals.
Jim Olsen
Jim Olsen is an environmental lawyer in Traverse City, Michigan.
Megan Oltman
Meg Oltman is a New Jersey writer, lawyer, business woman, and poet.
She practiced law for 14 years, specializing in family law and civil
litigation. [Source: Personal communication with
Megan Oltman]
John R. O'Malley
[John R. O'Malley]
Mary K O'Melveny
Mary K O'Melveny is a retired labor rights attorney. She
lives in Washington, D.C., and Woodstock, New York. Her work has
appeared in The Write Place at the Write Time, Twisted
Vine Literary Arts Journal, and Vilas Avenue Literary Journal.
She is the author of a poetry chapbook, A Woman of a Certain
Age (Finishing Line Press, September, 2018).
Matthew J. O'Neill
Matthew O'Neill is an Albuquerque poet, activist, and lawyer. He was born in 1969.
Terry O'Neill
Terry O'Neill is a New York lawyer and politician.
He is reputedly known in Albany as "The One-Man LCA Show," a chronicler in light verse of the political characters and goings-on in New York state government. He is the author of a collection of children's verse inspired by the adventures of Tom Constantine and the New York State Troopers. [Terry O'Neill ] [The O'Neil book]
David Orr
David Orr is a poetry critic for the New York Times and Poetry magazine. He is a part-time lawyer and is working on a book about poetry. Orr obtained his undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1996 and his law degree from Yale in 2000. [Source: Monica Finch, David Orr—In a Grand Tradition, 77 New York St. B. J. 11 (July/August 2005); Martindale-Hubbell; Princeton Alumni Weekly]
Raymond Zachary Ortiz
Raymond Ortiz was born October 2, 1953 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
He is named after his grandfathers who were both poets at heart.
He received his B.A. in English at the University of Notre Dame
and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. After
clerking for the New Mexico Supreme Court, he joined a local firm,
and went on to become a partner in the firm. He continues to practice
law with the Santa Fe firm, Roth, VanAmberg, Rogers, Ortiz, Fairbanks
& Yepa, LLP. His practice is now primarily in the areas of real
estate, commercial law, real property, family law and Indian law.
His poetry and stories have been published in both the United States
and in Great Britain. He lives in Santa Fe. [Source:
Personal communication with Ray Ortiz]
Pamela O'Shaughnessy received her law degree
from Harvard and practiced law for sixteen years and then turned
to fiction and poetry. She and her sister Mary have written over
a dozen suspense and mystery novels, eight of which appeared on
the New York Times bestseller lists. O'Shaughnessy poetryhas
been published in poetry journals and was featured poet in the Triggerfish
Critical Review. Her first poetry collection, Flying at
Sea-Level was published in 2007, Burning Gorgeous
appeared in 2010, and a comprehensive selection of her poetry, Figments
has also been published. O'Shaughnessy lives on the California Central
Coast.
James O'Sullivan
Aisha Othman
Aisha Othman practices law in Southern California. She
reportedly started writing poetry during her adolescence in her
native Malay language. She is the author of Reflections of a
Wayfarer: Poetry of Islamic Excellence (2010)
Laura Baumann Otsubo
Laura Baumann Otsubo grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is an attorney at the California Secretary of State's office.
Mark Oursler
Carol Elizabeth Owens
Carol Owens is an attorney at the Bullard Law Group in Rochester,
New York. She is a graduate of Howard University and Albany Law
School where she graduated in 1997. At Albany, Owens served as President
of the Black Law Students Association. She began writing poetry
as a teenager. [Carol
Elizabeth Owens]
Edward Packard
Edward Parkard was born in 1931 in Huntington, New York. He is a lawyer, essayist, poet, and author of children's books. He graduated from Princeton University and Columbia Law School.
Clemson N. Page
Clemson Page is a Wyomissing, Pennsylvania lawyer.
Lolita Paiewonsky
Lolita Paiewonsky is a graduate of Howard University School
of Law. She has published several small volumes of poetry. [Lolita
Paiewonsky]
Kimberly Townsend Palmer
Kimberly Palmer was born in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles in 1960 (in
what she reminds us was the Year of the Rat and the month of Scorpio)
and grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She received her undergraduate
degree in psychology in 1982, her law degree from the University
of Florida in 1985. She is a fourth-generation lawyer. She now lives
in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two daughters. Her
poetry and short fiction has appeared in Adirondack Review,
Absinthe Literary Review, Blue Fifth Review, Cenotaph,
Charlotte Poetry Review, CrossConnect, Earth's
Daughters, Eclectica, Exquisite Corpse, Images
InScript, New Laurel Review, The Panhandler, Paumanok
Review, Red River Review, Snake Nation Review,
Snakeskin, Stark Raving Sanity, Stirring: A Literary
Collection, and Xavier Review. Townsend is the editor
and publisher of Truth-the-Magazine.
["Dreams
& Wishes & the Plain Truth"] ["Twelve
Songs for a Broken Ankle"] ["Love
Kills"] [Poems]
["The
Defenestration of Prague "] ["Two
Summers After the Divorce "] ["The
Conductress of Milk"] ["Chin
Pu (Mimetic Consumption) "] [Kimberly
Townsend Palmer]
Julianne Palumbo
Julianne Palumbo is the author of Into Your Light (Flutter Press, 2013), a chapbook about raising teens. Palumbo
practiced employee benefits law. She resides in Rhode Island.
Roger Pao
Roger Pao is a graduate of Duke University. His poems have appeared in Allegheny Review, Concrete Wolf, Glass Tesseract, Gumball Poetry, The Independent Weekly, and Poetry Depth Quarterly. [blog]
Michael Parish
Michael Parish is a Wall Street lawyer. His poem, "First Daughter,"
appears in Ploughshares,
Volume 7 (2), Summer, 1981.
Jung E. Park
Jung Park is a Korean American who grew up in a small Mexican
border town. She studied at Harvard & Radcliffe Colleges and obtained
her law degree from UC Davis Law School. She is currently an improv,
sketch and standup comic in the Los Angeles area. Jung is also an
actress, writer, poet, psychic, artist, singer/songwriter and lawyer,
although she is no longer practices law full-time.
Hardy Parkerson
Hardy Parkerson is a graduate of Tulane Law School (1966). He was in law practice for twenty years and then ventured into law teaching, and signed on with a start-up "university" in Lake Charles as Dean of the College of Law. When the university moved down courtry, Parkerson founded Southern Christan University which has had a law school since 1993. [The Web Poetry Corner of Hardy Parkerson of Lake Charles, La.]
Nina Parrilla
Cristina Velez writes under the pen name Nina Parrila. She obtained her J.D. from Columbia University. After law school she moved to Tallahassee, Florida where she was an Adjunct Professor at Florida State University teaching a course on Genocide and International Law, and working as an employment discrimination attorney. Currently, she is a Staff Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit, Leon County, Florida. [Nina Parrilla]
Alfredo Parrish
Effie Pasagiannis
E. F. Pasbach
E.F. Pasbach was born in Chicago, raised and educated in New England,
and presently resides in East Providence, Rhode Island where he
practices law. His collection of poetry, Perspectives was
published in 1993.
Charles Patterson
Charles Patterson, is a partner, at Morrison
and Forester, Los Angeles, California. Patterson's collection
of poetry is titled, The Petrified Heart (Signal Tree, 2002)(poetry relating to the Vietnam war). Patterson
received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas
in 1963, and his law degree from the University of Michigan Law
School in 1966.
Gary Patterson
Gary Paterson graduated from the Stanford Law School in 1989.
He has given up the practice of law and published a book of poetry
(whose title and publisher remains a mystery).
Jerry Patterson
Jerry Patterson is a native of Arkansas and a graduate of Harvard.
He obtained his law degree from Vanderbilt. He served as an Assistant
Attorney General in Arkansas and during the 1950s was a company
commander with the 8th U.S. Army in Korea. He is the author of a
collection of poems, The Delta and Other Poems (International
University Press, 1987). At the time The Delta and Other Poems
was published, Patterson resided in the San Fernando Valley,
in southern California.
Cynthia
J. Patton
Julia Morris Paul
Julia Paul is a practicing attorney in Manchester, Connecticut.
Her poems have appeared in Runes, Connecticut River Review,
Broken Bridge Review, Common Ground Review, and Caduceus.
One of her poems was performed by the East Haddam Stage Company
as part of its 2008 production, Plays and Poetry. Paul is a member
of the Connecticut Poetry Society and a director of the Riverwood Poetry Series. [Julia Morris Paul]
Lawrence Lyman Pauley (1930-2017)
Lawrence Pauley was born in 1930 in Hamlin, West Virginia. He
served in the U.S. Air Force after graduating from high school and
attended Marshall University. He obtained his law degree from West
Virginia University in 1958. He a retired Federal Administrative
Law Judge. Pauley is the author of Mud River Tales: A Collection
of Stories in Rhyme (Discovery Press, 2000). Pauley died in
2017.
John Paval
Sue Payne
Sue Payne is a Chicago attorney. Her first published
poem appeared in The Blue Moon Review.
Payne was born in 1953. She was admitted to the bar in 1985,
after obtaining her B.A. from Denison University, and her J.D. from
Northwestern University. She teaches law at John Marshall Law School
.["Mother
May I"]
Troy Payne
Troy Payne obtained his J.D. from Lewis & Clark in 2007. He
is now a lawyer, poet, and wilderness photographer. [Troy
Payne] [Payne's
work]
J. Clark Pendergrass
J. Clark Pendergrass practices law in Huntsville, Alabama. He
obtained his B.A. from the University of Tennessee and his J.D.
from the University of Alabama in 1997. In his undergraduate days
he was poetry editory of the Phoenix Literary Art Magazine. We
have not determined whether Pendergrass has continued, as a lawyer,
to write poetry.
Mary Margaret Penrose
Mary Margaret Penrose is a professor of law at the University of
Oklahoma College of Law where she joined the faculty in 2000. She
received her B.A. degree in history from the University of Texas-Arlington
in 1989, her J.D. degree from Pepperdine University in 1993, and
an L.L.M. from Notre Dame in 1999.
We first learned of Professor Penrose's poetry by
way of a poem entitled, "I Said, 'No': For Those Who Would
Disallow Me the Freedom to Love," which appeared in 23 Harvard
Women's Law Journal 247 (2000). [Mary
Margaret Penrose]
Patricia Percival
Patricia Percival is a graduate of Duke University and
Emory University School of Law. She has practiced law and worked
as an asset manager. Her poems have appeared in Phati'tude Literary
Magazine, Stonepile Anthology (vol.2), Sunrise
from Blue Thunder (an anthology published by Pirene's Fountain),
and The Southern Poetry Anthology (Texas Review Press)
(vol.5, Georgia). She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jonathan Andrew Pérez
Jonathan Andrew Pérez, Cartographer of Crumpled Maps:
The Justice Elegies (Finishing Line Press, 2020).
John Perrault
John Perrault is a New Hampshire teacher, folksinger, musician, lawyer, and Poet
Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Perrault was raised in Maine
and graduated from Providence College in 1965. He received his Masters
degree in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire.
He taught school for 10 years and then obtained his law degree from
Franklin Pierce Law Center. With John Ahlgren, he formed the law
partnership of Ahlgren & Perrault in 1982. Perrault has appeared
in concerts throughout New England singing his ballads. His music
albums include: Thief in the Night (1977), New Hampshire (1981),
Tenants in Common (1984), Country Matters (1988), Country Matters
(1995), PLM: Before You Go (1997). [Source: Personal
communication with John Perrault]
Perrault's poetry has appeared in the Christian
Science Monitor, Commonwealth, Key West Review,
and Poet Lore. His first published collection of verse, The
Ballad of Louis Wagner: & Other New England Stories in Verse
was published in 2003 by Peter E. Randall, Publisher. Perrault's
latest collection of poetry, Here Comes the Old Man Now
was published by Oyster
River Press in 2005. [Source: Ballad
of the Barrister & Personal communication with John Perrault]
[John Perrault][John
Perrault's Poetry] [Barrister
Ballader—New Hamphsire Public Radio]
Alice Persons
Alice Persons has a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University
of Oregon. She moved to Maine in 1983 and received her J.D. from the University
of Maine School of Law in 1986. She has worked as an English teacher, legal secretary, copy editor, and singing waitress.
She now works for a legal publisher and teaches part-time.
She lives in Westbrook, Maine.
Persons poetry has been appeared in Animus, Aurorean, Red Owl, Off the Coast and other journals. She is the author of four chapbooks of poetry: Be Careful What You Wish For (Moon Pie Press, 2003); Never Say Never (Moon Pie Press, 2004); Don’t Be a Stranger (Sheltering Pines Press, 2007); Thank Your Lucky Stars (Moon Pie Press, 2011). In 2002, Persons co-edited A Sense of Place, an anthology
of Maine poetry. "Among its other virtues, Maine has a wonderful,
vibrant poetry scene," she tells us. She co-founded Moon Pie Press with another lawyer and poet, Nancy A. Henry of Gray, Maine, and has continued the operations of the press as a solo venture. [Source: Personal communication with Alice Persons][Wikipedia] [Poems]
[Two Poems]
Barb Peters
Barb Peters
grew up in a small Northern Wisconsin town. She spent a year in Europe, a year and a half in Africa, and lived in Madison, Wisconsin, long enough to obtain her PhD in African Languages and a law degree. She lives in suburban Bellevue, a few miles from Seattle.
Jawanza Phoenix
Jawanza Phoenix is the author of
The Intersection of Beauty and Crime (CreateSpace, 2010),
a collection of poems drawing on his work as an attorney.
Marlene Nourbese Phillip
Kirk Pittard
Kirk Pittard lives in Grapevine, Texas. He grew up in Hurst,
Texas and received his BA from Baylor University in 1995 and his
law degree from Baylor Law School in 1999. Pittard has worked on
Capitol Hill in Washington DC for a Congressman and for a law firm
in Washington doing legislative work on Capitol Hill. Since law
school, Kirk has worked for the Amarillo Court of Appeals, the Mississippi
Supreme Court, the Dallas Court of Appeals, the law firms of Adams,
Lynch & Loftin and Waters & Kraus. In 2003, Kirk started
his own appellate boutique law firm now known as Kelly, Durham &
Pittard with offices in Dallas and Houston specializing in civil
appeals and litigation support in state and federal court. Pittard
is an instrument-rated pilot and practices aviation law. [Source:
Personal communication with Kirk Pittard]
Edward G. Pizzella
Edward G. Pizzella was born in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1954
graduated from Trinity College with a BA degree. He received his
JD from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1957 and
has since engaged in the general practice of law. Pizzella is the
author of Wordbridge: A Collection of Lyrical Poems ( Xlibris,
2015)
Vanessa Place
Vanessa Place is an L.A.-based lawyer, poet, novelist, art critic
and co-director of Les Figues Press She is the author of Dies:
A Sentence (2006)(prose; 50,000 words, one sentence), La
Medusa (Fiction Collective 2, 2008)(allegedly a "post-conceptual
novel"), Notes on Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling Presse,
2009)(co-authored with Robert Fitterman), and The Guilt Project:
Rape, Morality and Law (Other Press, 2010)(non-fiction). Tragodía
1: Statement of Facts, the first book in a trilogy of conceptual
poetry was published by Blanc Press in 2010. The second and third
books in the trilogy Statement of the Case and Argument
are forthcoming, also from Blanc Press. [Vanessa
Place]
Kenneth Plaisance
Kenneth Plaisance practices personal injury law in the New Orleans
area. He has been writing poety since the age of sixteen. He is
now an entertainer, musician and songwriter. Plaisance was born
and raised in New Orleans.
Dana Stangel-Plowe
Dana Stangel-Plowe is a former lawyer. She resides in New
York. Her poem, "Assisted Living" appears in Paterson
Literary Review (vol. 36, pp, 210-211, 2008-2009). [Dana
Stangel-Plowe]
Judith Bluestone Polich
Judith Polich
is a lawyer, poet, and co-owner and manager of Heart Seed Bed & Breakfast, a retreat center and spa in New Mexico.
Elizabeth S. (Liz) Poliner
Liz Poliner's poetry and fiction
have appeared in Southern Review, Seneca Review, Tar
River Poetry, Other Voices, Ascent, and Kenyon
Review. She has been a fellow at Yaddo and the Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts, and is a former editor of Folio and
former co-editor of Poet Lore. She is the author of a novel of connected stories, Mutual Life & Casualty (Permanent Press, 2005).
Poliner was born in Middletown, Connecticut, January
28, 1960. She attended Bowdoin College, where she received her B.A.
in 1982, and American University where she received an M.F.A. in
1994. She received her legal education at the University of Virginia
and obtained her J.D. in 1988.
Frank Pommersheim
Frank Pommersheim teaches at the University of South Dakota School
of Law where his specialty is Indian Law. He is the author of Braid
of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life
(1995) and numerous scholarly articles.
Pommersheim received his B.A. degree from Colgate
University, his J.D. from Columbia University and an M.P.A. from
Harvard University. Before joining the South Dakota faculty in 1984,
he lived and worked on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation for ten years.
Pommersheim currently serves on a number of tribal appellate courts
throughout Indian country, most recently named an Associate Justice
for the newly formed Mississippi Band of Choctaw Supreme Court.
Pommersheim has published three collections of poetry:
Snaps: Poetry and Prose From a Family Album (Rose Hill Books,
1994); Mindfulness and Home: Poetry and Prose From a Prairie
Landscape (Rose Hill Books, 1997); Haiku For the Birds: And
Other Related Stuff (Rose Hill Books, 2002).
He received the University of South Dakota Belbas-Larson
Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998 and the South Dakota Peace
and Justice Center Reconciliation Award in 2000.
[Source: Personal communication with Frank Pommersheim] [Frank
Pommersheim]
Rhinold Ponder
Karen Poppy
Karen Poppy is an attorney licensed in California and Texas.
Her chapbook, Crack Open/Emergency was published by Finishing
Line Press in 2020. A second chapbook, Every Possible Thing appeared
that same year, published by Homestead Lighthouse Press. Here poetry
chapbook, Our Own Beautiful Brutality was published in 2021
by Finishing Line Press.
Ellen
Posner
Ellen Posner is a Fairfax, Virginia attorney. She is the author
of What's in a Feather?, a first collection of her poetry.
[Interview-podcast]
Farin Powell
Farin Powell practices law in Washington, D.C. Her poetry has appeared in various literary magazines and poetry anthologies. She is the author of a collection of poetry, A Piece of Heaven (AuthorHouse, 2009).
Susan Power
Susan Power is the author of a novel, The Grass Dancer (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994). She is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Power attended Harvard-Radcliffe, and obtained her law degree from Harvard Law School in 1986. After law school she worked as a technical writer and editor, and wrote poetry and short stories. She obtained her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1992. [Wikipedia]
Dennis Powers
Dennis Powers is an Asland, Oregon attorney and professor emeritus
at Southern Oregon University. He is the author of Legal Street
Smarts (1994), Beating the Tough Times (1995), Legal
Expense Defense (1995), The Office Romance (1998), and
The Internet Legal Guide (2001), and a series of books about
the sea, The Raging Sea (2005)(about the 1964 devastating
tsunami that crashed down the U.S. West Coast), Treasure Ship
(2006)(about the loss and final discovery of a gold-laden ship),
Sentinel of the Seas (2007)(about the building of the most
dangerous, remote and lighthouse in this country's history), Taking
the Sea (2008)(tells the tales of the wreckers, or salvagers,
of ships and their passengers), Tales of the Seven Seas (2010)(about
the adventurous exploits of Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien). Power's
most recent book, Gold Hill: Mining Town of the Century,
will be published in December, 2010. He has also published poetry,
short stories, newspaper articles, journal articles, magazines,
books, and periodicals. Powers is a graduate of the University of
Colorado (1964), University of Denver Law School (1967, and Harvard
Business School (1969). He owned and operated several businesses,
ranging from law to import/export, before teaching for fifteen years
at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.
P.K. Price
P.K. Price is the author of novels, non-fiction, and poetry. She resides on her farm, Tortuga
Cay, La Quinta Paloma in Mission, Texas [Source:
Susan Fox Rogers, Solo: On Her Own Adventure (Seal Press,
1996)]
Susan Prospere
Susan Prospere was born on March 28, 1946 at Oakridge, Tennessee.
Her father, an FBI agent, had various postings and Prospere grew up
on the move—New York City, Niagra Falls, Memphis, and New Orleans,
among other cities. She attended Millsaps College and Louisiana
State University and obtained her undergraduate degree from Mississippi
State University. She graduated from Tulane Law School and obtained
an M.A. from the University of Houston. Prospere is the author of
Sub Rosa, a collection of poems published by W.W. Norton
in 1992. [Source: Biography
of Susan Prospere, The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project, Starkville High School] [Norton promo
for Sub Rosa]
Prospere's poems have appeared in The New Yorker,
The Nation, Poetry, The American Scholar, Antaeus,
and Best American Poetry 1991 (edited by Mark Strand). She
lives in Houston, Texas and is now associated with Allen
Boone Humprhries, LLP, a law firm in Houston, Texas. Prospere
is a member of the the
Texas Institute of Letters.
Anita S. Pulier
Anita Pulier is the author of Perfect Diet (Finishing Line Press, 2011) and The Lovely Mundane (Finishing Line Press, 2013).
Victoria Pynchon
Victoria Pynchon is
a Los Angeles attorney/mediator. Her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Kalliope, The Ledge, Southern New Hampshire University Journal, and Kudzu: Online Literary Journal. She is the editor-in-chief of R-KV-R-Y: A Quarterly Literay Journal. [Settle Now: Negotiation Blog]
John R. Quinn
Attorney, poet, and stage performer; lecturer at St. John's University
School of Law and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
[Source: John R. Quinn, Corpus Juris Tertium: Redemptive
Jurisprudence in Angels in America, 48 (1) Theatre Journal
79 (1996)] [See also, John R. Quinn, The Lost Language of the Irishgaymale:
Textualization in Ireland's Law and Literature, 26 Columbia Human
Rights Law Review 553 (1995)]
Sheree Rabe
[Sheree Rabe website]
Burton Raffel (1928-2015)
Burton Raffel was born in 1928; he is a poet, fiction writer, critic,
translator, editor, and anthologist. He graduated from Yale Law
School and spent two years practicing law on Wall Street before
taking up his career as an educator, author, and scholar. He is
the author of The Mia Poems (October House, Inc., 1968),
Four Humours: Poems by Burton Raffel (Calcutta, India:
Writers Workshop Publication, 1979), Grice: Poems of Grousing
(The Trilobite Press, 1985), Beethoven in Denver and Other Poems
(Conundrum Press, 1999). [Wikipedia]
Douglas Rainbow
Douglas Rainbow obtained both his undergraduate and law degree from the University of Minnesota. After law school Rainbow served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps and was appointed U.S. Claims Commissioner for Southern Thailand. After his JAG duties he entered private practice. Rainbow retired in 2003, moved to Florida, and found that he wanted to continue to work. He served as a real estate specialist for Palm Beach County, and then joined a law firm as a paralegal. He writes, and publishes, short stories and poetry. [Douglas Rainbow]
Robert E. Rains
Robert Rains is a professor of law at the Dickinson School of Law,
Penn State University. His published verse includes: "A Slippery
Slope," 8 Green Bag 2d 117 (2004); “Out on a Limb,"
, 82 Orgeon L. Rev. 933 (2003); “Nick-name," 25 Pa. Family
Lawyer 121 (December, 2003); “Gerber v. Hickman, A Sperm Aside,"
24 Pa. Family Lawyer 57 (July, 2002); “The Case of the Vanishing
Law Student," 4 Green Bag 2d 463 (2002); Courting Canine Custody,
A Domestic Doggerel," 24 Pa. Family Lawyer 112 (December, 2002);
“When You Wish to Be an R," 4 Green Bag 2d 333 (2001).
Gay Parks Rainville
Gay Parks Rainville is a poet, attorney, and former high school
English teacher. Her chapbook, Clearing the Mask, was published
by Finishing Line Press in 2021.
Greg Rappleye
Greg Rappleye lives near Grand Haven, Michigan. His recent work
has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of literary journals
and anthologies, including The Southern Review, Poetry,
Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi
Review (where he won The Mississippi Review Prize in Poetry),
River Styx, Quarterly West, Bellingham Review,
Puerto del Sol, The Southern California Anthology,
MARGIE: An American Poetry Review, Sycamore Review,
New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry,
and The Pushcart Prize XXV: Best of the Small Presses. His
work has also appeared on the web at Poetry Daily and on
the National Poetry Month Website of the Academy of American
Poets. His first book of poems, Holding Down the Earth, was
published in 1995. His second collection, A Path Between Houses,
was published by The University of Wisconsin Press in 2000.
Rappleye is a graduate of Albion College (1974), the
University of Michigan Law School (1976), and the MFA Program for
Writers at Warren Wilson College (2000). He is currently Corporation
Counsel for Ottawa County, Michigan, and teaches in the English
Department at Hope College. He has four children, three dogs, two
cats, and is married to the painter Marcia Kennedy. [["A
Path Between Houses"] ["From the Vegas Cantos"] [Commentary
on A Path Between Houses] [Sonnets at 4 A.M. -- Blog]
Sean Reagan
Sean Reagan has taken a leave from his criminal law practice; his poetry appears in Rattle,
Main Street, Rag, Chiron Review, Yankee
Magazine, Black Bear Review and other journals; he resides
in Worthington, Massachusetts [three
poems] ["Theophany"]
Joan Carol Reese
Stella Rebaut
[YouTube video of Stella Rebaut talking about her life as a lawyer] [pt.2] [pt.3] [pt.4]
Kathee Rebernak
Kathee Rebernak is a writer, corporate communications consultant,
and a former lawyer. She grew up in Missouri and now lives in New York City. Her published work includes
poetry, short fiction, and academic articles.
Tom Rechtin
Tom Rechtin is the author of Traces (Pudding House Press, 2010). [Law firm profile]
Lawrence Craig Redmond
Karl Thomas Rees
Karl Rees is a
web developer, technical writer, fpatent agent/attorney, poet, native Texan, and Brigham Young University graduate. [Karl Thomas Rees]
Mary Anne Reese
Mary Anne Reese, an attorney and graduate of the the English/Creative
Writing program at Northern Kentucky University, is the author of
a chapbook, Raised by Water (Finishing Line Press, 2011).
Catherine L. Reeves
A Wyoming lawyer.
Carl Reisman
Carl Reisman was born, in 1961, at Rochester, New York. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1981 and cooked for a living 1982-93. He briefly attended and then dropped out of the University of Oregon College of Law, 1984; graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1996. Since then Reisman has worked as a small-town lawyer. He is now in a solo practice in an office that was once a Phillips 66 service station built in 1932. His practice is primarily petitioner's worker's compensation.
Reisman's poetry collections include Kettle (Hot Lead Press, 2005), Staying Home (1989), Bread and It's Shadow (1993), and One Week (1999). He also wrote the introduction to David Reisman's book of dream drawings, Foreign Objects, published by Hornbill Press in 2004.
Reisman tells us: "My current manuscript is called Home Geography. The title is taken from a primer I found at a garage sale. The primer was intended for use in a one room school house and was divided into brief lessons, which gave children such useful instruction as how to find their way home using stars if they were lost at night. The book was a remarkably kind orientation to living on earth and my collection of poems is intended, in a small way, to pay homage to this gentle approach to education of the human soul." [Personal communication with Carl Reisman, July 1, 2006] [Carl Reisman] [Reisman's website] [Reisman reading at a Law & Poetry conference]
Jendi Reiter
Jendi Reiter attended Harvard University and received her law
degree from Columbia University in 1996. After practicing law in
New York City for four years, she took a hiatus from the law to
focus on writing. She currently lives in Northampton, MA, she is
the Vice President of WinningWriters.com,
a comprehensive Internet resource for poets and poetry contests.
Reiter's published collections of poetry include A Talent for
Sadness (Turning Point Books, 2003) and Swallow (Amsterdam
Press, 2009). Reiter's poetry is also featured in Miller, Reiter
& Robbins: Three New Poets (Hanging Loose Press, 1991). [Source:
Personal communication with Jendi Reiter] "Meaning
and Nonsense: A Panel Discussion"] ["The
Ghost in Love"]
George F. Reitnour
George Reitnour was born in 1957. He lives in Chester County,
Pennsylvania where his family extends back many generations. Reitnour
attended Allegheny College and Duquesne University School of Law.
After 17 years in private practice, he closed his law office in
2000 and became Vice President of Private Wealth Management at Investors
Trust Company. He maintains a website—reitnour.com—promoting poetry
and various charitable endeavors. [Source: Personal communication with Greorge Reitnour] [George
F. Reitnour]
Lloyd Zane Remick
Lloyd Zane Remick is the author of a collection of poems titled, Live, Love and Learn (song versions of the poems). Remick is a Philadelphia arts and entertainment lawyer. He was born in 1938, at Philadelphia. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and obtained his law degree from Temple University in 1962, and his LL.M. in Taxation from Villanova University in 1984. [Zane Management, Inc. bio]
Georgia Ressmeyer
Georgia Ressmeyer's chapbook, Today I Threw My Watch Away, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in journals Verse Wisconsin, South Carolina Review, Wisconsin People & Ideas, The Cresset: A review of literature, the arts, and public affairs, Puerto del Sol, and Phoebe: Gender & Cultural Critiques. Ressmeyer is a graduate of Yale Law School and worked for many years in Milwaukee as a defense attorney with the Wisconsin State Public Defender's with office representing individuals with mental disabilities. Ressmeyer is the author of a novel, Bernice: A Comedy in Letters, published by Metis Press in 1984. She lives in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Bessy Reyna
Bessy Reyna is a columnist at the Hartford Courant, editor
of El Extra Cultural, and for over a decade has worked as
Assistant Reporter of Judicial Decisions at the Connecticut Judicial
Department. Reyna was born in Cuba and raised in Panama and came
to the U.S. to attend college. She is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke
College and received her J.D. from the University of Connecticut.
Renya's collection of poetry published in the chapbook, She Remembers
(Andrew Mountain Press, 1997) won the 1996 Brodine Poetry Competition. Her most recent collection, The Battlefield of Your Body (El Campo De Batalla De Tu Cuerpo) was published by Hill-Stead Museum in 2005). [Source: Personal communication with Bessy Reyna] [Bessy Reyna]
Charles Reynard
Charles Reynard is a circuit court judge, 11th judicial circuit, Bloomington, Illinois. From 1987 to 2002, he was state's attorney of McLean County, Illinois. Judge Reynard is a graduate of St. Joseph's College; he received his law degree from Loyola University-Chicago. He is the co-editor, with Judith Valente, of Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul (Loyola Press, 2006).
Gary Wayne Rhoades
Gary Rhoades was born in 1966. He is a managing attorney at Legal Services of Northern California. He attended the University of Missouri and obtained his law degree from the University of California-Davis. He joined the Legal Services Office in Sacramento in 1993 after he finished law school He moved to the Legal Services Office at Redding as managing attorney in 1997. He is co-host of literary evenings at Carnegie's Cafe.
Paul R. Rice
Paul Rice is a law professor at American University, Washington College
of Law. He was born in 1943 and spent childhood summers in Louisa,
Kentucky. He received his undergraduate degree from Marshall University,
his law degree from West Virginia University in 1968, and an LL.M.
(Masters of Law) from Yale in 1972. He was admitted to the West
Virginia bar in 1968 and clerked for Judge H.S. Boreman of the Circuit
Court of Appeals. He was a lecturer and co-director of the Legal
Clinic at Connecticut from 1969 to 1971 and then Associate Professor
of Law at Mississippi from 1972 to 1974. He visited American in
1974 and joined the faculty in 1976. Professor Rice teaches Civil
Rights, Criminal Law, and Evidence. He is the author of seven professional
books and numerous law review articles.
Rice studied poetry at the Washington Writer's Center
in Bethesda, Maryland and is the author of several
chapbooks, including Walking Among Shadows: Searching For
The Red Sunfish (Finishing Line Press, 2007), From Shallow Waters (Finishing Line Press, 2010), Season of Love (Finishing Line Press, 2011) [Source: Communication with Professor Rice; The AALS Directory
of Law Teachers 2000-2001] [Faculty
Profile]
Robert Rice
Robert Rice has abandoned the legal profession, earned an M.A. in International Affairs at American University, did graduate work in Latin American studies at the University of Florida, and has published several novels including The Last Pendragon, Agent of Judgment, The Nature of Midnight. His short stories and poetry have been appeared in various literary journals.
Jack Richbough
Jack Richbough is a Memphis lawyer.
Steven M. Richman
Steven Richman, a lawyer in Princeton, New Jersey, concentrates
his practice in the areas of international law, bankruptcy and commercial
and intellectual property litigation. He is former Chair of the
Editorial Board of New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, a member
of the board of trustees of the New Jersey State Bar Association,
and president of the Canadian-American Chamber of Commerce of New
Jersey. He has published scholarly essays on several lawyer poets
including: Edgar Lee Masters, Charles
Reznikoff, Sidney Lanier and has completed work on an unpublished essay
on Archibald MacLeish.
Richman's poetry has been published in various literary
journals, and his photography is held in various public and private
collections. His published collections of photographs include Meditations
on a Lost Place: Trenton, America and the City Imagined (forthcoming
McFarland Publishing), The Great Swamp (Schiffer Books, 2008),
Mannequins (Schiffer Books, 2006) The Bridges of New Jersey:
Portraits of Garden State Crossings (Rutgers University Press,
2005). [Source: Personal communication with Steven
Richmond] [Richman
Galleries]
Steve Richmond
Steve Richmond obtained his law degree from UCLA in the mid-1960s, but did not, so far as we know, ever practice law. He established the Earth Rose book store in Santa Monica. Richmond has long been associated with Charles Bukowski and is the author of a book about Bukowski, Spinning off Bukowski (Sun Dog Press, 1996). Richmond and Bukowski co-authored several books of poetry, including: Hitler Painted Roses (Earth Books & Gallery, 1966)(Earth Books & Sun Dog Press, 1994), Earth Rose.1. (Earth Books, 1966), Fuck, Hate (Earth Books, 1966), Red Work, Black Widow (Duck Down Press, 1976), Stance 3 (Stance, 1982), Gagaku (Planet Detroit Poems!, 1985), Buk (MaroVerlag, 1984)(with Rainer Wehlen and others), Sisyphus Leaves (Apemantus Press, 1992)(with Douglas Goodwin and others). Richmond is also the author of a 70s collection of poems, Earth Rose (Earth Books, 1974). [My thanks to Pat deTurk, who first alerted me to Steve Richmond's legal background.]
Pat Riggs
Pat Riggs obtained his undergraduate degree from San Francisco State
University and his J.D. from the University of San Francisco School
of Law in 1990. After graduating fro law school he worked in the
San Diego Public Defender Officer, and in 1994 moved to the Solano
County Public Defender Office. He entered private practice in June
1998.
Aaron W. Rigodon
Aaron Rigodon attended the John Jay College of Criminal Justice
and the City University of New York. He makes his home in Elmhurst,
New York.
Vincent Rinella
Vincent Rinella is an attorney, psychologist, and poet. He has been
poetry for the past 30 years. His work has been published in Branch
Redd Review and Sixpack, and a collection of his lyric
poems, Vincent Rinella is an attorney and psychologist (now semi
retired), who has been residing in Wyndmoor and writing poetry for
the past 30 years. His work has been published in, among other journals,
Branch Redd Review and Sixpack . His book Coterieworks,
a collection of lyric poems on set themes dedicated to close friends
and intellectual intimates, was published in 1997. He resides at
Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania.
Beatriz Alba del Rio
Beatriz Alba-Del Rio is a bilingual poet and lawyer. She has lived
in Cambridge since 1982. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Her poetry has appeared in anthologies and literary magazines.
Cynthia Nitz Ris
Cynthia Nitz Ris teaches English at University of Cincinnati and
works as a freelance writer and editor. Before her academic appointment,
she was a civil litigator and legal administrator. Ris obtained
her law degree from the University of Michigan. She was co-founder
and editor of the literary journal The Blue Writer.
He poems have appeared in Snakeskin and Identity Theory.
[two
poems]
Rolf
D. Ritschel
Rolf Ritschel, an attorney, was born in Germany in 1943, and came
to the United States when he was eleven. He resides in Victorville,
California. [Rolf
D. Ritschel]
T.A.
Rizzo
[blog
(including Rizzo's poetry]
Taiyu John Robertson
Taiyu John Robertson is a criminal defense lawyer who practices
Zen Buddhism. He is the author of Always Doing Being We Live
Our Lives (Lulu, 2007)(memoir in free verse) and The Only
Universe I Have Ever Known (Taiyu John Robertson, 2007). His
latest work, An Unremitting Moment was published by Lulu
Press in 2009.
Lee Robinson
Lee Robinson grew up in the Carolinas and practiced law for over
20 years in Charleston, South Carolina, where she served as the
first female president of the Charleston Bar. Her poetry, short
stories and essays have appeared in various journals and anthologies.
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|
Robinson is the author of a collection of poetry,
Hearsay, published by Fordham University Press in 2004,
and a novel, Gateway (Houghton Mifflin, 1996)(a story
of a custody battle told from a teenager's point of view). |
Lee Robinson is now retired from the practice of law
and lives on a ranch outside San Antonio. She and her husband, physician
Jerald Winakur, co-teach courses in medical/egal ethics and literature
at the University of Texas and the Center for Medical Humanities
and Ethics in San Antonio. [Personal communication
with Lee Robinson] [Lee
Robinson]
Ruthann Robson
Ruthann Robson is a professor at City University of New York’s Queens
College of Law. Her collection of poetry is titled Masks
(The Leapfrog Press, 1999); her poetry has appeared in Calyx,
Kalliope, Florida Review, Madison Review, Nimrod,
New Letters, Conditions, Trivia, Common Lives/Lesbian
Lives. She is the author of four books of fiction, including
the novels, Another Mother (St. Martin's Press, 1995) and
a/k/a (St. Martin's Press, 1997); a short-story collection,
Eye of a Hurricane. She is also the author of five books
of non-fiction. [Ruthann
Robson] [CUNY
Faculty profile] [Conversation
with James R. Elkins] a href="http://www.leapfrogpress.com/available-books/MASKS.html">
[Interview]
[Notes
on My Dying] [Annotated
Bibliography] [Essay
on Robson and Her Influence] ["Satisfaction
of Kimberly Bascomb: An Intervention into the World of Lowell Komie's
FictionalWomen Lawyers"--a story]
Allen Rodman
Kristin Roedell
Kristin Roedell is a Northwest poet and retired attorney. Her poetry has appeared in Switched on Gutenberg, Damselflypress, Flutter, Soundings Review, Tacoma’s City Arts, Ekphrasis, Eclectica, Cliterature, Open Minds Quarterly, Touch: A Journal of Healing, Puffin Circus, Chantarelle’s Notebook, The Fertile Source, Breath and Shadow, Frost Writing, Four and Twenty, Autumn Sky Poetry, Quill and Parchment, Ginosko, The Mom Egg, Pilgrimage, Chest, Soundings Review, Seeding the Snow, Sierra Nevada Review, Quantum Poetry Magazine, Wazee Journal, Amoskeag and Voice Catcher Anthology. Roedell is the author of two chapbooks, Seeing in the Dark (Tomato Can Press, 2009) and
Girls with Gardenias, published by Flutter Press.
Paul Roesch
Paul Roesch recieved his undergraduate education at Chadron State College and the University of Chicago. He received a J.D. from the University of Michigan. Roesch has served as special consultant to the Metropolitan Park District and the Tacoma Public School District (Tacoma, Washington), and as legislative consultant to the Washington State Legislature. He has also been engaged in the general legal practice, emphasizing civil and human rights, adoption proceedings, and small business enterprises.
J. Andrew Rodriguez
J. Andrew Rodriguez is the author of Robins Facing South
(Red Mountain Press, 2004). He was born and raised near Corpus Christi,
Texas, and as an adult lived in Oklahoma, where he studied law at
the University of Oklahoma College of Law. He obtained his undergraduate
degree from the University of Texas-Austin. Rodriquez write poetry,
fiction, and essays. His commentaries have appeared in the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer. Rodriquez lives in Seattle.
["Mississippi"]
Susan Rogers
Susan Rogers was born and raised in Los Angeles, and presently resides there. She graduated from Princeton University, received a JD from UCLA, and an MA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She taught Creative Writing at Johns Hopkins University and English Literature at UCLA. Rogers works with Poets on Site (a group of poets founded by Kathabela Wilson), the Southern California Haiku Study Group, and the Westside Women Writers.
Sojourner Kincaid Rolle
Sojourner Rolle is Santa Barbara, California community activist, mediator, poet, and lawyer. She is the author of six plays and seven books of poetry including, Black Street (Center for Black Studies Research, 2009) and Common Ancestry (Mille Grazie, 1999). Her poems have been anthologized in The Geography of Home, The Poetry of Peace, Poetry Zone I, II, & IV, and Rivertalk. Her plays have been produced by Santa Barbara's Dramatic Women Theater Company. [Poets and Writers] [UC-Santa Barbara Library] [Poem.hunger.com]
Barbara B. Rollins
Barbara Rollins practiced law nine years and presided as Judge of County Court at Law#2 of Taylor County (Abilene) from 1988 until January 1s, 2011. She now sits as a visiting judge and works full-time as an author, editor, and publisher with Silver Boomer Books in Abilene. Rollins's published books include a young adult novel, Syncopated Summer and four forensic books for children. Her poetry meditation book, A Time for Verse: Poetic Ponderings on Ecclesiastes was published by Eagle Wings Press in 2009. Her latest book, A Cloud of Witnesses: Two Big Books and Us (with O.A. Stepper) appeared in 2011.
Rollins obtained a B. S. from McMurry University, taught Spanish and
English, and obtained an M.A. from Scarritt College. She set type for a publishing company
and was a legal secretary before she obtained her J.
D. from the University of Texas School of Law.
[Source: Personal communication with Barbara Rollins] [Poem-Legal Studies Forum]
Bill Romano
Bill Romano is San Francisco attorney.
Steven Rood
Steve Rood is an Okaland lawyer; he specializes
in real estate, business, and publishing matters. He sits on various
boards of organizations devoted to literary, ecological, and religious
affairs. [Source: Personal communication with Steven
Rood]
Craig van Rooyen resides in San Luis Obispo, California. His work has appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Willow Springs, The Christian Century, Boxcar Poetry Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Rattle, and The Fourth River.
Jonathan Rose
Jonathan Rose is a Miami poet, immigration lawyer, teacher, and
editor/publisher of the cultural arts calender, Cultural Newsletter,
and poetry editor of Accent: Miami. [Source:
Personal communication with Jonathan Rose]
Deborah Nodler Rosen
Rachel Rosenberg
Rachel Rosenberg is a graduate of Lewis & Clark Law School and Kenyon College. Her poems have been published in The Leaning House Press and The Sparrow Ghost Collective Anthology of Poetry: Vol.'s 1 and 2. ["The Art of Saying Nothing"]
Robert Rosenbloom
Robert Rosenbloom's poetry has appeared in the Paterson Literary Review, Edison Literary Review, Poetic Reflections, Identity Theory, Tiferet, and Home Planet News.
He is the author of a chapbook, Reunion (Finishing Line Press, 2010). Rosenbloom obtained his MA in Creative Writing from CCNY in 1975. He is a member of the Delaware Valley Poets and resides in Bound Brook, New Jersey.
Mordecai Rosenfeld
Mordecai Rosenfeld is a retired lawyer. He is the author of The Lament of the Single Practitioner: Essays on the Law and A Backhanded View of the Law: Irreverent Essays on Justice.
Menachem Rosensaft
Menachem Rosensaft is a lawyer, poet, activist, director & editor-in-chief, of the Holocaust Survivors' Memorial Project of the World Jewish Congress.
Jill Rosenthal
Jill Rosenthal practices law in Los Angeles, California. She writes poetry, fiction, personal essays, and screenpalys.
Gary Rosin
Gary S. Rosin is the author of Standing Inside the
Web (Bear House Publishing, 1990). His poems and short stories
have appeared in various literary and poetry magazines and anthologies,
including Arrowsmith, Buffalo Press, Concho River Review, Crosscurrents,
Houston Poetry Fest, i.e. magazine, New Texas, RE Arts & Letters
and Sulphur River Literary Review. His poetry, prose and photography
can be found on his web-page, 4P
Creations. Rosin is a Professor of Law at South Texas College
of Law, in Houston, Texas. [Source: Gary Rosin,
personal communication, January 16, 2008][See, Brenda Sapino Jeffreys,
Wordsmiths at Work: Love and Lure of Language Motivate Lawyer-Poets,
Texas Lawyer (2007)][Gary
Rosin]
Rota
Christine Ross
Christine Ross previously worked as an attorney in private practice, an editor for a legal publishing company, and as a professional law librarian. She is a life-long resident of Illinois and now resides in Peoria. She writes short stories and poems.
Gyasi Ross
Gyasi Ross graduated from Columbia Law School. He was born and raised a member of the Blackfeet Indian Nation and resides on the Port Madison Indian Reservation (home of Suquamish Nation) near Seattle. Ross is the author of Don't Know Mucy About Indians (Cut Bank Creek Press, 2011) and How to Say I Love You in Indian (Cut Bank Creek Press, 2013), both books are comprised of short stories and poems.
Patricia Rossi
Peter CL Roth
Peter CL Roth is Senior Assistant Attorney General, State of New Hampshire.
Mitchell J. Rothenberg
Mitchell Rothenberg practices law in Baltimore, Maryland.
He graduate from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2006.
He obtained his undergraduate degree from George Washington University
in 2003. His creative writing includes poetry and fiction.
Jonathan
Rothschild
Jonathan Rothschild was born, raised and lives in Tucson, Airzona.
He was educated at Tulane University and Kenyon College. He received
his law degree from the University of New Mexico. His law practice
with Mesch Clark & Rothschild PC, where he is the managing shareholder
of the firm, focuses on business law, employment law, real estate
law and estate planning. He is also active in various community
organizations, including the Tucson Community Foundation, Tucson
Medical Center Foundation, anti-Defamation League of Southern Arizona,
Jewish Family and Children's Services, and Handmaker Jewish Services
for the Aging. Rothschild's first collection of poetry, The Last
Clubhouse Eulogy was published by Chax Press in 2009.
Carole Rouin
Carole Rouin is an attorney/mediator, and writer of nonfiction
books and articles. Her poems have appeared in Pearl. She
has been practicing law for the past 15 years.
Jeffrey Roush
Jeffrey Roush is Director of Project Management at The Gnoêsis
Group, Columbus, Ohio. He received his J.D. from the University
of Michigan Law School and his B.A. in English and American Literature
at the University of Toledo. His poetry chapbook, Declaration
was published in 2014.
Kelly Rowe
Thomas Ruffin, Jr.
Thomas Ruffin, Jr. is a Washington D.C. lawyer, poet-playwright and activist.
Nedra Ruiz
Nedra Ruiz was born on November, 25, 1948 in Stockton, California.
She earned a master's degree in creative writing at San Francisco
State university and spent a year studying acting at the American
Conservatory Theater. She studied mime and performed various roles
in small theaters in the San Francisco bay area.
Ruiz obtained her law degree from Hastings College
and was admitted to the California bar in 1976. She began her legal
career with the Mission Community legal Defense. She is married
to a lawyer, Laurence Lichter and has three children.
She worked, at one time with the well-known, and sometimes
flamboyant criminal defense lawyer, Tony Serra. Most recently, Ruiz
represented Marjorie Knoller, the San Francisco lawyer who was tried
for 2nd degree murder after her dogs attacked and mortally mauled
a neighbor. [Source: San Jose Mercury News,
March 19, 2002]
Ross T. Runfola
Ross Runfola is an attorney, sport sociologist, performance artist,
and journalist. [Interview] [poems]
Lawrence Russ
Lawrence Russ has served since 1986 as an Assistant Attorney
General for the State of Connecticut, and since 1988 as the chief
construction counsel to the State of Connecticut Department of Transportation.
From 1986 to 1990, he served as Chairman of the Connecticut Bar
Association's Committee on Arts and the Law and from 1986 to 1989
as Director of the Connecticut Arts Law Conference, an annual day-long
event held at Yale University which was selected in 1991 by the
Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association as a Model
Attorney Outreach Project.
For his poetry, Russ has received the Academy of American
Poets Award, the Gutterman Prize for Poetry, and four Hopwood Writing
Awards from the University of Michigan, where he was chosen as a
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in the Humanities. Russ received a Master
of the Fine Arts degree in writing from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, where he was selected as an Honorary Writing Fellows in
Poetry by the faculty members of the Writing Program. His poems
have appeared in The Nation, The New York Quarterly, The Iowa Review,
The Virginia Quarterly Review, Parabola, Chelsea, and Image; and
in five editions of the Anthology of Magazine Verse. Russ has been
a runner-up for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, and a finalist
in the competitions for the National Poetry Series and the Walt
Whitman Award. A chapbook of his poems, The Burning-Ground,
was published by the Owl Creek Press in 1981.
Russ has performed and discussed poetry at elementary
schools and universities, art museums and galleries, churches and
synagogues, parks and prisons; in urban festivals and performing
arts series; on television and radio. As a performer and director,
Russ has read his own works and staged and performed work by other
writers for the Michigan Poets-in-the-Schools Program, Ear Inn in
New York City, the Kalorama Culture-in-Residence Series in Washington,
D.C., the Connecticut Commission on the Arts' "Investing in
Dreams" Program, the New Haven Park of the Arts Performance
Series, and many other series and programs.
Russ has served as a member of the Literature Committee
of the Governor's Council for the Arts in the State of Michigan;
as Vice President and Trustee of the Connecticut Advocates for the
Arts; Board Member of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven; member
of the Advisory Board for the Akus Gallery of Eastern Connecticut
State University; and as Chief Consultant for the International
Poetry Festival in Amherst, Massachusetts.
In 1987, a the request of the Connecticut Commission
on the Arts, Russ drafted a bill for an "Act Concerning Art
Preservation and Artists' Rights, and, with lobbyist Brian Anderson,
led a successful two-year campaign for passage of the legislation
by the Connecticut General Assembly.
Russ has represented and counseled scores of artists
and arts groups as a private attorney, and as a volunteer attorney
for the Chicago Lawyers for the Creative Arts and for the Connecticut
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (for which he acted as Director of
Legal Services from 1986 to 1991). [Source: Personal
communication with Larry Russ] [Lawrence
Russ Photography]
Fred C. Russcol
Fred Russcol is "of counsel" to the law firm, Castro
& Remer, in White Plains, New York.
Arthur Russell
Arthur Russell lives in Nutley, New Jersey. His poem,
“Whales Off Manhattan Beach Breaching in Winter” was anthologized
in Bettering American Poetry, Brooklyn Poets Anthology,
Paterson Literary Review. His poems have appeared in
Prelude, Yellow Chair Journal, POSTmortem,
Shot Glass Journal, Journal of New Jersey Poets,
and Wilderness House Literary Review.
Sara Littlecrow-Russell
Sara Littlecrow-Russell
is a graduate of Hampshire College and Northeastern University School of Law. She is an attorney, political activist, and
mediator from the Bear Clan Anishinaabe Metis.
Her legal practice focuses on indigenous women's health, domestic violence, and restorative justice. Her poetry has been featured in Red Ink, The Massachusetts Review, American Indian Quarterly,
Meridians, Cream City Review, Race Traitor, Survivor, Femspec, and in Winona LaDuke's All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. ["Wounded Knees"] [two poems]
Steve Russell
Steve Russell was born on February 10, 1947 at Bristow, Oklahoma.
He received his B.S. and J.D. degrees at the University of Texas-Austin,
completing his law degree in 1975. Russell obtained a Master of
Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada-Reno in 1993. He is
now an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University,
Bloomington. Professor Russell has authored numerous scholarly articles
focusing on criminal justice, American Indians, and colonialism.
Russell practiced law from 1975 to 1978 when he became
an Associate Judge on the Austin Municipal Court. From 1980 to 1982
he served as Presiding Judge of that court and from 1982 to 1994
as Judge of the Travis County Court.
Russell is married and has four children. He lives,
with his family, in Bloomington, Indiana. [Source:
Personal communication with Steve Russell]
Carl Russo
Carol Russo
is a Northampton, Massachusetts attorney and author of a chapbook,
Tokin' Of My Esteem. He is also a photographer and founding co-director of the Florence Poets Society.
Leslie Hayes Russo
Leslie Russo practices law with the firm Otway Russo in Salisbury, Maryland. She received her law degree in 1986 from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. She is on the Board of Governors of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association (MTLA) and has authored various legal publications. She writes children's literature and poetry. She resides in Salisbury, Maryland.
Jim Ryals
Jim Ryals is a La Canada, California lawyer and writer.
Jan Ryan
Jan Ryan Plays keyboards and provides background vocals
for the band, Island Schmyland.
Deborah Sanchez
Deborah Sanchez was, as of 1991, a lawyer in the Los Angeles city attorney's office. [Source: Washington Post, May 28, 1991]
Steve Sanderfer
Steve Sanderfer is a Dallas attorney, poet, and city councilman.
[Dallas
News article] [Steve
Sanderfer Homepage]
James Sanders
James Sanders is an Atlanta lawyers; graduate of the Duke Law
School and is a member of the Atlanta Poets Group.
Stephen Sanders
Steve Sanders is a1982 graduate of Baylor University School
of Law. He is the author of a book of poetry, Characters: The
Buffalo Soldier and Other Poems, an editor of and a contributor
to a book of pirate poetry, Raising Black Flags: Original Poetry
By and About Pirates, and editor of and contributor to an anthology
of poetry and short stories, Echoes From Other Worlds. He
is a member of the Fort Worth Poetry Society and the Poetry Society
of Texas. ["Buffalo
Soldier"--YouTube video] ["Raising
the Black Flag"]
David Sanua
David Sanua practices workers’ compensation law specializing
in appellate work. His offices are located in Brooklyn, NY. He was
formerly a senior attorney at the New York State Insurance Fund,
the state's worker's compensation carrier. He lives in Brooklyn.
Sanua graduated from Cardoza in 1991. His poem, "The Terminus
Station," appears in Cardozo Studies in Law & Literature,
Vol. 10, p. 61 (1998).
Guy De Sapio
Guy De Sapio is an
attorney for the Hunterdon County [New Jersey] Freeholders. His poetry has appeared in several journals.
Christopher A. Sarro
[personal
website]
Lynn Saul
Lynn Saul's poetry has appeared in Sarah's Daughters Sing, Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Crossing Limits, and SandScript. Saul is the author of a collection of poems, In Our Language (Jumping Cholla Press, 2014), and several chapbooks of poetry, including Family, I Am Trying to Understand, and Nashim B'Midbar/Women in the Desert.
Lynn Saul earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arizona. After a long career as an attorney, including eight years as a legal services lawyer on the Tohono O'Odham Nation in southern Arizona, Saul retired from the practice of law to focus exclusively on writing and teaching. She teaches writing and humanities at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona
Mike Sauntry
Ellen Sazzman
Ellen Sazzman is a lawyer whose poetry has been published in Rockhurst
Review, Potato Eyes, Soul Fountain, and the California
Quarterly. Sazzman was born in 1951, admitted to the bar in 1977.
She attended the University of Chicago where she obtained her B.A.
degree, and Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California,
Berkeley, for her J.D. [Source: Personal communication
with Ellen Sazzman]
Judy Scales-Trent
Judy Scales-Trent was born in 1940. She obtained her B.A. in 1962 from Oberlin College, her M.A. from Middlebury College in 1967, and her J.D. from Northwestern in 1973. She is a professor of law at Buffalo. Her poetry has appeared in Life Notes, Doubt Stitch: An Anthology on Black Mothers and Daughters, Sacred Journeys, and SAGE. She is the author of Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, and Community (Pennsylvania State Un iversity Press, 1995). [Law School profile]
Michael Schein
Michael Schein is the author of Just Deceits, a historical courtroom mystery. His poetry and other work appears in Slow Trains, Chrysanthemum, The Ledge, Penitalia, Pontoon 8 & 9 (Floating Bridge Press), American Drivel Review, Elysian Fields Quarterly, RockSaltPlum, rains from the ground up, Runes, Lilies & Cannonballs Review, American Atheist, Drash, The November 3rd Club, and an anthology, The Art of Bicycling (Breakaway Books, 2005). Schein is Director of the LitFuse Poets' Workshop, a former board member of the Washington Poets Association, and the former Executive Director of Tieton Arts & Humanities. He is also a volunteer speaker for the ACLU-WA, specializing in national security issues. [Michael Schein]
Lawrence Schechterman
Eugene Schlanger
Eugene Schlanger—so far as we know—is currently deputy general counsel for Nomura Hold America, Inc, in New
York. (Nomura is the U.S. operation of a large Japanese securities
firm); former branch chief in the enforcement division of the New
York regional office of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His poetry has been published in Western Humanities Review, American
Scholar and Sewanee Review. He attended State University
of New York at Stony Brook and received his law degree at St. John's
University. He wrote his first poem while he was a high school student
at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. Schlanger now resides in Suffern, a New
York City suburb [Source: Wall
Street Journal, September 12, 2002] [NY
Times, Feb., 2004]
Steve J. Schleicher
Steve J. Schleicher is attorney in Kansas City, Missouri; author of a collection of poetry, Touch the Sky; resides in Leawood, Missouri.
Maribeth Schlobohm
Maribeth Schlobohm, born in New York and raised in Texas, is an attorney, published poet, and Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Huamities, University of Texas-Dallas. She obtained her law degree from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1990. Her B.A. is also from Texas Tech. Her poetry has appeared in various publications and anthologies, including The Best Poems and Poets of 2004, Poetry Today, and Mississippi Crow. She is a member of the Writer's Guild of Texas and the Dallas Screenwriter's Association.
Doc Schneider
Doc Schneider is an Atlanta lawyer, songwriter, and singer. [Doc Schenider]
Michael Schneider
Michael Schneider, a former lawyer, resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
His work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Cimarron Review, Notre Dame Review, Chautaugua, and Atlanta Review. He is a member of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop,
and lives on Pittsburgh's historic South Side. Schneider is the
author of a chapbook titled, Rooster (Main Street Rag Pub.
Co., 2004).
Laura Schulkind
Laura Schulkind
represents public school and community college districts in California. She lives in Berkeley and Big Sur, California.
Schulkind received her JD from New York University, where she focused on public service law. Her chapbook, Lost in Tall Grass was published in 2014 by Finishing Line Press. [Schulkind's website]
Michael D. Schwartz
Michael Schwartz is a native New Yorker transplanted to Ventura, California and worked as a public defender. He obtained his law degree from George Washington University in 1993. He resides in Oxnard and now practices law with Silver Hadden Silver Wexler and Levine. [firm bio]
Romaine S. Scott, III
Romaine Scott is with Haskell|Slaughter in Birmingham, Alabama.
His practice focuses on business, real estate and commerical litigation.
He obtained his law degree from Cumberland School of Law, Samford
University in 1980, and his B.A. from Washington & Lee in 1974.
He is the author of several legal articles. Before he became a lawyer,
Scott was a newspaper reporter. He is actively involve in the creative
arts industry as a composer, usician, and music producer.
Williard R. Scott
Williard Scott was counsel to the Scot Paper Company. He resides
in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Jim Scutti
Jim Scutti is a retired SEC lawyer. He spent 22 years in private practice in Boca Raton. His published poems appear in various literary magazines.
Adam J. Sedia
Adam Sedia, a Lake County, Indiana, lawyer in the author of two collections of poems, Inquitetude (CreateSpace, 2016), and The Spring's Autumn (CreateSpace, 2013). Sedia did his undergraduate work at Indiana University and obtained his law degree from DePaul University. He started writing poetry when he was an undergraduate.
Ron Self
Ron Self was born at Columbus, Georgia in 1947; he has been practicing law for over 30 years and has served as president of the Georgia Poetry Society. His work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, The English Journal, Encore, and in local anthologies. Self obtained his J.D. from the University of Alabama in 1976. He practices law in Columbus, Georgia, teaches part-time at Columbus State University, and co-founded and serves as editor of Brick Road Poetry Press.
Junichi P. Semitsu
Junichi Semitsu is the current director of June Jordan's Poetry for
the People, a creative writing program for the political and artistic
empowerment of students, and a visiting faculty member in the African
American Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
A graduate of Stanford Law School, he served as a judicial clerk
on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, and then
as an associate at a law firm in San Francisco. [Source:
Personal communication with Junichi Semitsu]
R. Perry Sentell, Jr.
R. Perry Sentell, Jr. is Professor of Law Emeritus, at the School of Law, University of Georgia. He is the author of "Torts in Verse: The Foundational Cases," 39 Ga. L. Rev. 1197 (2005) [Faculty Profile] [Georgia General Assembly Resolution]
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton attended Dartmouth College and
is the author of a book of poetry, Bleach, and a novel,
A Kind of Freedom. Sexton was born and raised in New Orleans,
and is a lawyer by training.
Elizabeth Shafer
Elizabeth Shafer is the author of a collection of poetry, Wellsprings
(Finishing Line Press, 2019).
Gregory C. Shaffer
Gregory Shaffer is a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin.
Shaffer was born in 1958, received his undergraduate degree from
Dartmouth College in 1980 and his law degree from Stanford in 1988.
He was admitted to the California Bar in 1990. He practiced law
in France from 1988 to 1995 and then joined the Wisconsin faculty.
Shaffer is the author of Forest Poems which was published
in 1998. [Source: Personal communication with Gregory
Shaffer]
Natalie Shapero
Natalie Shapero received her MFA in Creative Writing from
Ohio State University and attended law school at the University
of Chicago. Shapero is the author of a collection of poetry, No
Object, published by Saturnalia Books in 2013.
Shahilla
Shariff
Mark Shaw
Mark Shaw is a former criminal defense lawyer; he owns and operates Cricket's Books and Gifts in Sausalito, California. He is the author of various books and is a poet.
Kathleen Shemer
Kathleen Shemer, an attorney and executive director of the Women's Law Center of Maryland, has work that appears in New Zoo Poetry Review.
Rob Shepard
Rob Shepard graduated from Texas A&M in 1986 where he majored in philosophy. He is an attorney in Austin, Texas.
John Woolslair Sheppard
John Sheppard
practiced law in Lee County Florida for thirty-six years before retiring. He is the author of three collections of reflections in verse: Views from the Sunset and ThyWord by Legacy Publishing and Reflections published by
Strathmoor Books.
Lynn
Margaret Sherrell
David Shine
David Shine is a corporate lawyer in New York City. He is a graduate of Columbia University and NYU School of Law. His poetry has appeared in Poetry East, Georgetown Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Paper Street Press, Full Circle Journal, and Sarnac Review. [David Shine]
Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley (B.A., Northwestern; J.D., University of Michigan;
Ph.D., Duke) was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Her four
collections of poetry include the new black (Wesleyan, 2011);
a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006); and two chapbooks,
31 words * prose poems (Belladonna* Books, 2007) and The
Gorgon Goddess (Carolina Wren Press, 2001). Her poetry and literary
criticism appear widely in journals and anthologies, and her creative
and scholarly work have been supported with scholarships, fellowships,
and residencies by Cave Canem, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers,
Hedgebrook, ACLS, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture. She co-edits the literary journal jubilat. Before
pursuing her Ph.D. in English, she clerked for Judge Nathaniel R.
Jones on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced
environmental law at Sidley & Austin in Chicago for four years.
She is currently an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University
where she teaches African American literature and creative writing.
[Source: Personal communications with Evie Shockley][Shockley
reading three poems at a Law & Poetry Conference] [Interview]
Joshua L. Shuart
Joshua L. Shuart obtained his B.S. from Kansas State University
(1998), his M.A. from Kansas State in 2002, and his J.D. from the
University of Kansas School of Law in 2005. His poems have appeared
in the Indiana Review.
J . Robert Shull
J. Robert Shull, a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, obtained degrees
from the University of Virginia and Stanford University. He is employed
at a non-profit children's advocacy center in New York City. His
first poetry was published in storySouth. He is the author
of Emotional and Psychological Child Abuse: Notes on Discourse,
History, and Change, 51 Stan. L. Rev. 1665 (1999)
["The
Little Room"] [Two
Poems]
Erich M. Shultz
Erich M. Shultz is Memphis lawyer, sometimes judge, and poet. [source]
William
Shutkin
William Shutkin is President of New Ecology, Inc. ("NEI"), founded in 1999 to spearhead
sustainable development in distressed urban communities in New England.
Shutkin is a lawyer, social entrepreneur, teaches in the Environmental
Policy Group in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at
MIT, and is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Boston College Law School.
He has authored articles and essays on environmental law and policy,
and is the author of The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism
and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, which won the 2001
Best Book Award for Ecology and Transformational Politics from the
American Political Science Association. He is also a published
poet.
Shutkin obtained his A.B. from Brown University and an M.A. and J.D. from the University
of Virginia. He completed doctoral studies in Jurisprudence
and Social Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.
Shutkin was a law clerk to Chief Judge Franklin S.
Billings, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District
of Vermont.
Benjamin
Shryock
Benjamin Shyrock was born, 1978, in Statesboro, Georgia. He was
educated at Georgia Southern University, where he received a B.A.
degree in 2002. He received a Masters in Theological Studies form
Duke University in 2004. In 2008, Shryock received his law degree
from Marquette University Law School. He practices immigration law
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the International Institute of Wisconsin.
Shryock is the author of suspense, fantasy, psycho-thrillers and
poetry. [Personal communication with Benjamin Shyrock,
July 16, 2009]
Edward Siegel
Edward Siegel is a Jacksonville, Florida lawyer; author of Just Like
a Lawyer: The Best and Verse of The Law in Rhyme and Limerick
(Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1993). He was born, January 15,
1931 at Asbury Park, New Jersey. He obtained his B.A. and J.D. from
the University of Florida and was admitted to practice in Florida
in 1955. From 1957 to 1990 he was with Adamas, Rothstein & Siegel,
a Jacksonville firm.
Ellen Beth Siegel
Ellen Beth Siegel is a clinical psychologist and a former lawyer.
Her poems have appeared in Bellowing Ark, Christian
Science Monitor, Concrete Wolf, Poetpourri,
and The Warwick Anthology. She is co-editor of Do Not
Give Me Things Unbroken, an anthology published by iUniverse
in 2002 and author of two collections of poems, Remembering
Endymion and The Sweet Moth Kisses Never Traded awaiting
publishers.
Jordan Silversmith
Fred Simmons (1928-2018)
"Fred Simmons, was born in Los Angeles, California
in 1928, and is a graduate of the University of California at Los
Angeles (UCLA, B.A. with major in English Literature in 1952 and
an L.L.B., later Juris Doctor, J.D. in 1958). Mr. Simmons served
as a naval officer during the Korean War, and since 1958 he has
been a practicing lawyer in Los Angeles. Mr. Simmons has been Certified
as a Specialist in Taxation and also in Estate Planning, Trusts,
and Probate. He has written and lectured nationally on Tax and Estate
Planning for the wealthy. His legal practice, he says with some
embarrassment, involves 'specializing in fine print and loopholes,
and has, sadly, only served to make rich men much richer and myself
rich in the process.' His poetry, which he thinks of as an escape
from his real work has been published in national magazines."
[backcover, Fred Simmons, Contemporary Urban
Haiku (Xlibris, 2002)]
Simmons has published a second book, King David (Xlibris, 2004), a play in prose and verse about a young shepherd boy who becomes King of Israel.
Tony Sinclitico
Tony Sinclitico
is a lawyer and an author of poetry and fiction. He lives in Solana Beach, California.
Jon Sindell
Jon Sindell lives in San Francisco where he is now a personal tutor in English and history, and so far as we can learn, a former lawyer. He is the author of a baseball novel, The Mighty Roman (2012) and other novels.
Marvin Singleton
Marvin Singleton was born in Kansas. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale, his Ph.D. in English from Duke University, and his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He practiced law in Canada, and is a subject of a profile by Philip Slayton in his book, Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada's Legal Profession (Penguin/Viking Canada, 2007). Singleton has been imprisoned since 2004, fighting extradition to Canada. Philip Slayton reports that Singleton writes what he calls, "prison poems" and that he, Singleton, thinks highly of them. [Law and Money: My Truman Capote Moment (Philip Slayton)]
Caitlin Sislin
Caitlin Sislin attends U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law.
She was born and raised in Los Angeles and obtained her undergraduate degree from Stanford University.
She has worked with Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice, the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic, and Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger and has published articles in the Ecology Law Quarterly. Her poem, "The Nation Waits," appears in Imagining Ourselves, an anthology of women's art and writing published by the International Museum of Women.
Frances Sjoberg
Frances Sjoberg
was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in 1973 and now practices law in Phoenix, Arizona. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College in 2002, a BA from the University of Arizona in 1994, and her JD from the University of Arizona in 201ll. Her chapbook, outcrop, was published by Chax Press in 2008. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Alaska Quarterly Review, River City Review, and Forklift, Ohio.
David Skeel
David Skeel is a professor of law at
the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina (B.A. 1983) and the University of Virginia (J.D. 1987). His poems have appeared in Boulevard, Kansas Quarterly and elsewhere. He has written on poetry and poetry-and-law for Legal Affairs, Wallace Stevens Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, and other publications; he served as an advisory editor of Boulevard in the 1990s. He also is the author of Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From (Oxford, 2005) and Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton, 2001).
Margaret Crouse-Skelly
[Margaret
Crouse-Skelly]
Lori
Slavin
Wendy Sloan
Wendy Sloan is civil rights attorney and poet in Stuyvesant
Town, New York. Her poems have appeared in The Raintown Review,
Measure, Umbrella Journal, Blue Unicorn
and Iambs & Trochees.
Gary Sloboda
Gary Sloboda
is a lawyer/writer/musician. His work and essays have appeared in Drunken Boat, EOAGH: A Journal of The Arts, Exit Strata and FRiGG. He lives in San Francisco.
D. Beecher Smith
D. Beecher Smith, a Memphis, Tennessee attorney, writer, and
poet was born in 1949. From 1991 to the present he has been a member
of the law firm, Rice, Smith, Bursi, Veazey, Amundsen & Jewell,
where he heads the firm's Tax and Probate section. Smith attended
Memphis Central High School, graduating in 1967. He received his
B.A. degree from Millsaps College in 1971 and his law degree from
the University of Tennessee in 1974. Smith is the author of Recovering
My Sanity, a collection of poetry and three horror-suspense
stories (Zapizdat Publications, 1996). Smith was named the MidSouth
Writers Association poet laureate in 1996 and their prose writer
of the year for 1998. From 1994 to 1995 he served as president of
the Poetry Society of Tennessee and in 1995 was name poet laureate
of the society. Smith also writes science fiction, fantasy, and
horror stories. [Source: Personal communications
with D. Beecher Smith]
Smith served as the personal attorney for Elvis Presley
during the last 11 months of his life and continues to represent
the Presley estate. Smith is now a solo practitioner. [Source:
Personal Interview, Beecher Smith, December 18, 2002] [Photo] [D. Beecher Smith]
Daniel Smith
Daniel Smith is a poet, painter, and translator, and owner of Canonymous
Press. He attended the University of Iowa, where he received
an MFA in Comparative Literature, a J.D. degree, and an M.A. in
Library & Information Science. His first book of poems, Minims,
was published in 1993, and his second, Stone to Weather,
is now in progress. Smith has also published essays and literary
translations, and has served in various editorial capacities for
journals, including Exchanges: A Journal of Translation,
Modern Poetry in Translation, Periplus, and Écritique.
Graham Smith
Graham Smith
is a poet and former lawyer living in Laguna Beach, California. He is the author of a chapbook of haiku, Bar Napkins for Beginners (Sadie Girl Press, 2015).
Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith is a law professor at the University of Memphis. He began writing haiku in 2000.
Linda L. Smith
Linda Smith is a Lecturer in the Humanities in the Honors Program
at the University of Toledo. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Ohio State University; she earned both her Ph.D. in English Literature
and her law degree from the University of Toledo, and is now a non-practicing
member of the Ohio Bar.
Smith is is the author of Annie Dillard, a
literary biography about the contemporary writer and nature mystic,
and has taught writing and literature at the college level for 24
years. She has conducted retreats and classes in spirituality and
mysticism at the Chiara Center at Lourdes College and at various
churches in Northwest Ohio.
At the University of Toleda Honors Program, Smith
advises students, performs a variety of administrative duties, and
teaches a Great Books course spanning three thousand years of world
literature. She also developed and teaches an Honors seminar on
the topic "Theodicies Ancient and Modern: Why Bad Things Happen
to Good People." Smith has been involved in a number of programs
designed to help individuals suffering grief and loss. She has facilitated
workshops and support groups for cancer survivors and for those
who have lost loved ones to death and suicide.
Smith and Toledo-area spiritual director, Susan Lowrey,
have worked together on a number of projects involving writing and
the struggle to deal with grief and trauma. They jointly developed
and conduct regular sessions on "The Art of Heartbreak, the Poetry
of Pain: A Beginner's Writing Workshop for Those in Grief, Loss,
and Pain" in the Toledo area. They recently contributed a segment
on writing and poetry therapy for a CD-ROM on "Coping with Cancer"
produced by the Medical College of Ohio. They have also worked together
on programs to help medical residents learn better ways to deliver
bad news to their patients and to deal more effectively with their
own loss and grief reactions.
Smith and Lowrey also make presentations to support
and bereavement groups on the use of poetry for healing. On September
17 of last year, one week after the terrorist attacks, they initiated
the "Poems for Peace Project," issuing a global call for poems about
the attacks and a vision of world peace. At this date, over 800
poems have been received from 35 American states and six foreign
countries, from poets ranging in age from 8 to 89 years.
[Source: Personal Communication with Linda Smith]
Marcus A.J. Smith
Marcus Smith was born in Houston, Texas, in 1936. obtained his J.D.
from Loyola University-New Orleans in 1983 and admitted to the Louisiana
State Bar that same year. He had earlier obtained his Ph.D. in English
from the University of Wisconsin (1964). Since 1972 he has been
a professor of English at Loyola University-New Orleans. He has
taught courses on: introduction to poetry, contemporary poetry,
literature and justice, literature and film, semiotics of professional
writing, 18th century British fiction, modern American fiction,
world literature
In 1962-1964 he was editor of Choice (a Madison, Wisconsin poetry magazine), and from 1973 to 1978 he served as editor of New Orleans Review.
His poetry in the 1960s and 70s appeared in Choice,
Targets, Beloit Poetry Journal, New Idea,
Midwest, Southern Humanities Review, The Far
Point. One of his poems, "Terminal Ward," appears
in John W. Corrington & Miller Williams (eds.), Southern
Writing in the Sixties: Poetry 59-60 (Baton Rogue: Louisiana
Universtity Press, 1967).
[Note: It was John W. Corrington, the English professor/novelist/poet/lawyer/ screenwriter/TV daytime dramas writer that prompted my interest in lawyer/poets and the creation of this website.]
Victoria G. Smith
Victoria Smith is the author of a collection of poetry titled,
Warrior Heart, Pilgrim Soul: An Immigrant's Journey (2013).
Betsy Snider
Betsy Snider, a retired lawyer, was born and raised in Ohio.
She has lived in New England for over three decades, currently in
Acworth, New Hampshsire. Her poems have appeared in Black Magnolias
Literary Journal, Cold River Review, Lynx Magazine,
Poet's Touchstone, 2008 Poet's Guide to New Hampshire,
Anthology of New England Writers 2008 and Love Over 60:
100 Women Poets Over 60. Snider is
the author of a collection of poetry, Hope is a Muscle (Blue
Light Press, 2016).
Donna J. Snyder
Donna Snyder grew up in Twitty, Texas, near the Oklahoma border. She attended
the University of Texas, worked on a Navaho reservation, and was
involved in legal projects in New Mexico. She is retired from public interest law practice and continues her work as a "people's poet" in El Paso, Texas.
Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder was born in New York and grew up in New York and Southern California. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of California-Berkeley, in 1984. He obtained his Masters degree in Political Science in 1986 at the State University of New York at Albany. In 1990, Snyder earned his J.D. from Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law and became a member of the Oregon State Bar in 1990. His poetry has appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review and other literary journals. He is also a musician and singer; his CD, "Water, Rock and Sand" can be previewed at CD Baby. [Law firm website]
'Annah Sobelman (1954-2017)
'Annah Sobelman is the author of a collection of poetry titled, The Tulip Sacrament (Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England, 1995).
Kimberly Sobie
Kimberly Sobie graduated from law school and obtained a degree in tax law. She practiced as a tax lawyer for almost ten years, and then worked as a manager at a hedge fund of funds. Sobie is now a personal and business coach, Reiki Master teacher, and certified hynotherapist. [Kimberly Sobie]
Sarah Sohn
Laurie
Soriano
Laurie Soriano was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and now lives
in Palos Verdes, California. She attended the University of Pennsylvania,
where she received a BA in English in 1983 and a BS in Economics
from the Wharton School of Business. While at Penn, she studied
poetry with Daniel Hoffman. She studied law at the University of
California-Davis School of Law, from which she moonlighted to study
poetry with Alan Williamson in the MFA program. Soriano is now a
music attorney in Beverly Hills, representing recording artists,
songwriters and others in the music and film industries. Her poetry
has been published in The Orange Room Review, Flutter
Poetry Journal, Gloom Cupboard, Heavy Bear, and
FutureCycle Poetry. Her first collection of poetry, Catalina was published by Lummox Press 2011.
Joseph Nicholas Sorrentino
Fred S. Souk
Michael Sowder
Michael Sowder is is originally from Ohio and grew up in Birminngham, Alabama. He is a professor English at Utah State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, an M.F.A. from Georgia State University, and his J.D. from the University of Washington. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Alabama. After obtaining his law degree Sowder clerked for a federal judge, and worked as a lawyer for several years in Atlanta before becoming
an academic.
Sowder's collections of poetry include: The Empty Boat
(Truman State University Press, 2004), A Calendar of Crows
(New Michigan Press, 2001), and Cafe Midnight (with Margaret
Aho)(Blue Scarab Press, 2003). His critical study of Walt Whitman,
Whitman’s Ecstatic Union: Conversion and Ideology in Leaves
of Grass was published by Routledge in 2005.
His poems have appeared in many journals, including Poet Lore, Green Mountains Review, Cutbank, The South Carolina Review, Poem, Southern Poetry Review, and his essays have appeared in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.
Sowder teaches in the Department of English at Utah
State University. [Michael
Sowder] [News
article] ["That
Drink" -- YouTube video]
Roy G. Sowers
Roy Sowers grew up in North Carolina around horses and cattle. He graduated from North Carolina State University and raised cattle for about almost a decade when he decided to become a lawyer. He practiced law until 1999 when he retired due to health reasons. He relocated to Lander, Wyoming, and resettled. Sower's poetry is anthologized in Wyoming's Cowboy Poets (Jean Henry-Mead & Peggy Simson Curry eds.).
W.T. Spadaro
W.T. Spadaro retired from the practice of law in December, 2000. Since then he has served as a consultant for the design of disease surveillance systems and for bioterrorism and health law projects. He holds a B.S.C.E from the Newark College of Engineering (now the Newark Institute of Technology), an M.Eng. from Stevens Institute of Technology, and a J.D. from New York Law School. In 1998 he received a Postgraduate Certificate in Writing from the Vermont College of Norwich University, where he studied poetry and the dialogical philosophy of Martin Buber. His poems have been published in Bastard Plan, Salonika, Lungfull!, Medicinal Purposes, and The Astrophysicist’s Tango Partner Speaks. ["
Who Has Seen Infinity?"]
Edmond B. Spaeth, Jr.
Edmond Spaeth is a jurist, now retired.
His poems have appeared in the Schuylkill Valley Journal.
Robert E. Sparrow
Robert Sparrow is a partner in the Kew Gardens, New York law firm, Sparrow,
Singer & Schreib; graduate of Columbia Law School, a lawyer
since 1957; served as the President of the Queens Criminal Courts
Bar Association (and was named its lawyer of the year in 1993); born in New York in 1935. Sparrow's practice focuses on criminal defense law.
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Gerry Spence
Gerry Spence, born in 1929, is a Wyoming lawyer known throughout
the United States for his high profile clients and his way with
juries. Spence is a prolific writer, and has recently published
a magnificent book of photography and poetry under the title
Gerry Spence's Wyoming (St. Martin's Press, 2000).
[Gerry Spence]
Sheila M. Parrish-Spence
Sheila Parrish-Spense,
a co-author of A Trilogy of Poetry, Prose, and Thoughts for the Mind, Body and Soul, is an an attorney, writer, educator and ommunity activist. She is an active participant in poetry marathons and slams and her poetry and prose has appeared in various publications. She holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and North Carolina Central University Law School; she studied law at the University of Exeter Law School, Exeter, England.
Sherna G. Spencer
Sherna Spencer is an immigration attorney whose practice is in Fort Lauderdale.
She was born in Jamacia and, after moving to the U.S, attended Le Moyne College in upstate New York. She studied in Italy and obtained J.D. at the University of Miami School of Law. She is the author of a collection of poetry titled Musing Aloud Allowed (Jalousie, 2014)
Carlton T. Spiller
Carlton Spiller graduated from Rutgers University and from Seton Hall University with a J.D. in 1982. He is the author of Scalding Heart (Nuyorican Press, 2005). [Wikipedia]
Jacqueline St. Joan
[See: Jacqueline St. Joan, "Restraining
Order," "A Mother's Advice to her Children," and
"White Rain," 35 (9) The Colorado
Lawyer 41, 43, 48 (2006)]
Joanne Hirase-Stacey
Joanne Hirase-Stacey
is an attorney living in southeastern Idaho. She has published short stories and poetry.
Michael Stanford
Michael Stanford is an attorney in the Maricopa County Public Defender’s
Office in Phoenix. He received Ph.D. in English, served as editor
of his college literary magazine and won the Academy of American
Poets literary prize for a collection of poems he wrote as a student.
He has published poetry and literary criticism, and has taught at
the University of Virginia, Stanford University, Arizona State University.
He is the co-author, with David Kader, of Poetry of the Law:
From Chaucer to the Present (University of Iowa Press, 2010).
Jill Starishevsky
Jill Starishevsky was, at the time of this posting, an assistant district attorney in New York City where she prosecutes child abuse and sex crimes. She is the author of children's book, My Body Belongs To Me.
Steven D. Stark
Steven Stark is a writer, teacher, lawyer, and consultant and author of two poetry chapbooks. He was columnist for the Boston Globe and Montreal Gazette. He is a graduate of Harvard and Yale Law School. [Art of Stark]
Maxwell L. Stearns
Maxwell L. Stearns was born at Bangor, Maine, on December 2, 1960.
he obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1983 and his J.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 1987.
He was admitted to the bar in 1987, and is now a professor of Law
at George Mason University School of Law, where he joined the faculty
in 1992. He previously practiced law as a litigation associate with
Palmer & Dodge in Boston, and Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz in Philadelphia,
and served as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Harrison L. Winter,
chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Stearns teaches Constitutional Law, First Amendment
Law, Federal Courts, and a course on public choice and public law,
for which he has published a book Public Choice and Public Law:
Readings and Commentary. He received the 1995 Outstanding Faculty
Publications Award for "Standing and Social Choice: Historical Evidence,"
which appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Most
recently, Stearns has published Constitutional Process: A Social
Choice Analysis of Supreme Court Decision Making. His sonnet
series appears in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 48, p.
195 (1995).
Jean Stefancic
Jean Stefancic is a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. ["The Lawyer Speaks of Rivers"]
Gary A. Stein
Gary Stein is a Bethesda, Maryland lawyer and poet whose poems
have appeared in Poetry, Journal of the American Medical
Association, Prairie Schooner, Folio, Wordwrights!,
and Blue Sofa Review. He is the author of a chapbook, Between
Worlds, published by Finishing Line Press. Stein holds
an MFA from the University of Iowa and also writes short stories
and reviews.
Nate Stein
Nate Stein
is an international human rights attorney in New York City. His work has appeared in Wordriot, Isthmus, Gravel, and The Santa Clara Review, and in NYU J. Int. L. & Pol., NYU Law Magazine, Orlando Sentinel, and Shanghai Expat Magazine.
Gene' Stephens
Gene' Stephens received her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law and her B.A. from the University of Michigan. Stephens is the author of Rebirth, a collection of stories and poems, and is currently working on her second collection of poetry. Her poetry appears in the 2004 Chicago Poetry Fest Anthology. ["My First Man (for Daddy)"]
Glen Stephens
Glen Stephens is a retired lawyer; he resides in Riverside, California. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School.
Jamie Stern
Jamie Stern is a litigation lawyer and 30-year resident of Tribeca, New York. She is the author of Chasing Steam, a collection of her poetry published by Virtual Artists Collective in 2013.
Catherine Baker Stetson
Terry Stevenson
Terry Stevenson is a graduate of Loyola-Marymount School of
Law in Los Angeles. He is a Senior Assistant City Attorney for City
of Burbank specializing in employment and construction law. He has
been writing poems since high school. His poems have appeared in
Electrum, Poetry/L.A., Rattle, Spillway
and ONTHEBUS and in various anthologies: Shards, Off-Ramp,
Corners (all published by the Pasadena Poets), The New
Los Angeles Poets (Bombshelter Press), Truth and Lies that
Press for Life (Artifact Press, Ltd.), 13 LA Poets (Bombshelter
Press), and So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California
Poets (Tebot Bach, 2003). [Source: Personal
communications with Terry Stevenson]
Gwyneth Stewart
Gwyneth Stewart's work has appeared in the Ohio Poetry Day
Anthology and in For A Better World: Poems and Drawings on
Peace and Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists.
Robert G. Stewart
Robert Stewart is an attorney with AterWynee LLP in Portland,
Oregon. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1973 and
obtain his law degree ten years later from the University of Puget
Sound Law School. He is a member of the Oregon Patent Law Association
and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He write
both fiction and poetry.
Andrea Stumpf
Andrea Stumpf received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1984 and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1987 (where she was an editor on the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law). She is now senior counsel at Teleglobe Communications Corporation in Reston, Virginia. She was previous associated wtih Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Sherman & Sterling in New York City (and Paris). She clerked for Judge Frank M. Johnson, who severs on the 11th Cirucit Court of Appeals, Montgomery, Alabama. She was admitted to practice in Pennsylvania in 1990, in New York and Paris in 1994. [poetry]
Suzanne Sturgeon
Suzanne Sturgeon is an attorney in private practice in Bloomington, Indiana.
She began writing poetry by taking classes at the John Waldron Art Center, where she met members of the Free-Range Poets.
Nina
Sudhakar
Nina Sudhakar is an Indian-American writer, poet and lawyer currently
based in Chicago. Her poetry has appeared Ecotone, Breakwater
Review and Big Lucks. She is the author of Matriarchetypes
(2019) and Embodiments (Sutra Press).
Jacqueline
Sullivan
Jay Surdukowski
Jay Surdukowski is from New Hampshire. He studied studio
art and political science at Bates College in Maine. At Bates, his
paintings and installations were shown at the Center for Maine Contemporary
Art, the Bates College Museum, and the Chase Hall gallery on campus.
He is (as of summer/2005) in his final year at the University of
Michigan Law School where he served as president of the Law School
Student Senate and founded Term of Arts, an annual show of law student
art. He also raised funds for revival of the law school's literary
journal. He is currently the Managing Editor of the Michigan
Journal of International Law. Surdukowski's note, “Is Poetry
a War Crime? Reckoning for Radovan Karadzic the Poet Warrior” was
published in the Michigan Journal of Internation Law in
its Winter, 2005 issue. His recent summers have been spent at the
International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague.
Before law school Surdukowski was a Truman Fellow in the Office
of Intergovernmental Affairs in the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services. Surdukowski is a Truman Scholar and a Humanity in
Action Senior Fellow. He is the recipient of a Bates College Phillips
Fellowship to Rwanda, and a University of Michigan Law School Dean's
Fellowship. His poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Bogg,
The Iconoclast, Frogpond, Diagram, and
the New Yinzer.
Jennifer A. Sutherland
Michael
G. Sutin (1935-2019)
Michael Sutin is a partner in a Santa Fe law firm, Sutin, Thay
& Browne. He was admitted to the New Mexico bar in 1959 and
has been a member of the law firm of Sutin, Thayer & Browne from
1959 to present and served as managing partner of the firm from
1971 to 1983. His first book of poems, Voices from the Corner/Voces
del Rincon, a one-person anthology centering on northern New
Mexico's multi-cultural tensions, was published in 2000 by Pennywhistle
Press of Santa Fé. Sutin's most recent collection of poems,
Naked Ladies on the Road was published in 2005 by Sunstone
Press in Santa Fe. [Source: Personal communications
with Mike Sutin] [Michael G. Sutin]
[Law
firm profile] [Naked
Ladies on the Road]
Anne Thomas Sulton
Verona Swanigan
John Francis Sweeney
Anna Sykora
Anna Sykora has been an attorney in New York and a teacher of English in Germany, where she now resides. Her poems appear in small press publications and on the web. She is also the author of a novel.
James W. Symington
James W. Symington (1927- ) s the former U.S. Chief
of Protocol and author of A Muse 'N Washington: Beltway Ballads
and Beyond (Raleigh, North Carolina: Pentland Press, 1999).
His papers are housed at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection,
University of Missouri-St. Louis. [Wikipedia]
Smington earned his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1950 and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1954. H served as four-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977, representing Missouri.
Curt Sytsma
Curt Sytsma is Des Moines, Iowa lawyer. He is the author of The Rhyme and Reason of Curt Sytsma, Political & Social Commentary by the Barrister Bard (Des Moines: C.S.S. Publications, 1982).
Nkechi Taifa
Douglas L. Talley
Doug Talley obtained his B.F.A. degree in creative writing from
Bowling Green State University in 1976. After a summer spiritual
quest in the Grand Tetons he hitchhiked to Salt Lake City and joined
the Mormon Church (doing his mission work in Rome from 1978 to 1980)
He obtained his J.D. degree from the University of Akron School of
Law in 1984 and serves as CEO of Millennial Assurance Services,
Inc. He is author of a book of poetry, The Angel Voice of Irony (Cato Properties, 2001),
described as a sonnet sequence about his religious conversion; his
poetry has appeared in The American Scholar, Midwest Poetry
Review, Piedmont Literary Review, Hellas, and
other journals. He resides in Akron, Ohio. [source]
Jeff Talmadge
"Jeff Talmadge was born in Ulvade, Texas, and spent his
earliest years under the twin spells of rock 'n roll and folk music.
He was deeply influenced by Townes Van Zandt and John Stewart—and
intrigued by the growing music scene in Austin. At Duke University,
he won the prestigious Academy of American Poets Award, seeing publication
of several of his pieces. He went on to receive a Master of Fine
Arts from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers in North
Carolina." Talmadge is also a practicing lawyer. [Jeff
Talmadge Singer Songwriter Homepage]
Kendra L. Tanacea
Kendra Tanacea is an attorney in San Francisco. She received her
MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College, and her B.A.
from Wellesley College. She is the author of a poetry collection
titled, If You’re Lucky Nobody Gets Hurt that awaits publication. Her poems have
appeared in 5AM, Rattle, and Pearl.
Emmanuel P. Tangas
Emmanuel (Manny) Tangas is a Canadian, a member of the Washington state, and is presently, Senior Business Development Manger for the Xbox console, in Microsoft's Home and Entertainment Division. He resides in Seattle.
Tangas was born in 1966 in Banff, Alberta. His parents were Greek and Russian immigrants. He was raised—mostly—in Kamloops, Bristish Columbia. He did undergraduate work at the University of British Columbia, and came to the United States to study law, first at thomas M. Cooley Law School, and then, obtaining his J.D. from Gonzaga University. He was admitted to practice law in the United States in 1996. After graduating from law school he worked for a 4-lawyer Seattle firm for two years, and then a mid-size firm for two years. He then joined a large multi-national firm to work on the Microsoft anti-trust litigation, before taking on his present work with Microsoft.
He has been writing poetry since grade school. He tells us, "[t]he skills need to critique and analyze poetry have served me well in my legal and business professions." [Personal communication with Manny Tangas, March 20, 2005]
Frank E. Taplin, Jr.
Adam Tarleton
Adam Tarleton received his MFA in poetry from the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro and studied law at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he served as editor-in-chief
of the North Carolina Law Review. Tarleton was born in Durham, North
Carolina, in 1979. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poet
Lore, Carolina Quarterly and the Hudson Review.
He practices law in Greensboro, North Carolina. [law firm profile]
Laura Ymayo Tartakoff
Laura Ymayo Tartakoff is an instructor of Political
Science at Case Western Reserve University and has taught law and
literature at Case Western Reserve University. Her legal work focuses
on constitutional law, civil liberties, and Latin American legal
issues.
Tartakoff was born in Cuba and grew up in Puerto Rico.
She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University
(1975), an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at
Tufts University (1976), an M.A. in International Affairs from the
Fletcher School in 1976, and a Diplomé (M.A.) from the Institute
of Advanced International Studies at the University of Geneva in
1978. She obtained her law degree from Case Western Reserve University
in 1990, and served as law clerk to the Honorable Frank J. Battisti,
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Tartakoff is co-editor of Poetry and Politics:
Selected Poems of Heberto Padilla (1974) and author of four collections of poetry, all published in Madrid, Mujer Martes
(Playor, 1977), Entero Lugar (Editorial Betania, 1994), Intimo Color (
Editorial Betania, 2002), and Ihventario y otros poemas (2012).
Tartakoff
has lived in Europe and Latin America and taught in Paris and Geneva. [Source: Personal communication with Laura Tartakoff] [Profile, Department of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University]
L.J. Taylor
L.J. Taylor is
commercial litigation attorney who practices law in Miami, Florida. She is also a published poet.
[L.J. Taylor]
Richard L. Taylor
Richard Taylor is Professor of English at Kentucky State University.
He obtained his J.D. degree from the University of Louisville. Taylor
is the author of several collections of poetry including: Bluegrass
(Larkspur Press, 1975); Earth Bones (Gnomon Press, 1979);
In the Country of Morning Calm (Larkspur Press, 2001); Stone
Eye (Larkspur Press, 2001); Braintree: Fifteen Poems
(Scienter Press, 2004). He was poet laureate of Kentucky from 1999-2001
and is also an antiquarian book dealer in Frankfort, Kentucky. [Source:
Personal communication with Richard Taylor] Laura Ymayo Tartakoff
[Richard Taylor]
John Teeter, Jr.
John Teeter, Jr. is a professor of law at St. Mary's University. [John Teeter, Jr. -- faculty profile]
John Teising
[John
Teising]
Paula Adams Tennant
Paula Adams Tennant was born in 1913. She graduated from high school during the Depression, served in the Navy during the war, and attended law school on the GI Bill. She became a member of the California bar and took up the practice of law. She was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Alaska, and then served as a district attorney in California. She served on the California Youth Authority Board, the parole authority for juveniles, and in 1970, was appointed by President Richard M. Nixon to serve on the U.S. Board of Parole and in 1983 was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve on the U.S. Parole Commission.
Tennant's collections of poetry include: Paula Adams Tennant,
who writes under the name ADAMS, lives in Northern California. She served in the Navy during World War II and studied law after the war. She held various positions as a prosecutor and in 1970 was appointed to the U.S. Board of Parole. In 1983 she was appointed to the U.S. Parole Commission. She is a resident of northern California.
Tennant's published poetry include: Passion of Creation, The Two Headed God, Moon of Reflection, Sheaves of Silence, and Conversations with Keith all published by Lost Coast Press (Fort Bragg, California). [Source (of biographical information): Guide to the "A Few Good Women" Oral History Collection, 1938-2000, Penn State University Archives, Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State University]
Miles Tepper
Miles Tepper is a lawyer, musician, artist, actor, and poet. Born in the Bronx, New York, he attended the High School of Misic and Art and received his B.S. degree in 1966 from City College (New York). He went on to Harvard Law School where he obtained his J.D. in 1969. He has practiced law for over 30 years in various capacities: law clerk to the late Hon. John R. Bartels, United States District Judge, Eastern District of New York; private practice in New York City; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of New York (serving as Deputy Chief, Appeals, 1979-1980; Chief, Civil Division, 1980-1985); and for some 20 years solo practice in New York City.
Tepper credits, for his move into poetry, his wife, Susan Tepper, a published poet and fiction writer, and Simon Perchik (a fellow lawyer/poet), and the late Jude Peet of Australia, the founder of Poesmplace.
Greg Teran
Greg Teran practices law in Boston where he focuses on intellectual property litigation. He formerly served as a Special Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County.
Leonard B. Terr
Leonard Terr was born, April 26, 1946, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
He attended LaSalle College, where he obtained an A.B. degree in
1967. He obtained an A.M. degree from Brown University in 1968, and his Ph.D. from Brown
in 1971. He studied law at Cornell University and obtained
his J.D. degree in 1975. Before taking up the practice of law, he
was an instructor in English at Brown University (1968-1971), assistant
professor of English at Wayne State University (1971-1972), and
assistant professor of English at Elmira College (1972-1973). After completing his law studies Terr
was law clerk to the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Claims (1975-1976)
and then joined the law firm, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan in
Washington, D.C. in 1976.
A collection of Terr's poetry, titled Sitting in Our Treehouse Waiting for the Apocalypse was published
by Ithaca House in 1975. He is also the author of: Foreign Corporations:
Reorganizations, Liquidations, and Similar Transactions (Bureau
of National Affairs, 1977)(with Gordon O. Pehrson, Jr.), The
Elusive Presence: Toward a New Biblical Theology (Harper &
Row, 1978), Till the Heart Sings: A Biblical Theology of Manhood
& Womanhood (Fortress Press, 1985), The Magnificat: Musicians
as Biblical Interpreters (Paulist Press, 1995). [Source: Contemporary
Authors Online, Gale, 2002]
Terr's master's thesis was on "Shaftesbury and
the Augustan Compromise," A.M. thesis, Brown University, 1968
(focusing on 18th century English literature and the Earl of Shaftesbury,
Anthony Ashley Cooper (1671-1713)). His Ph.D. thesis was titled,
"Tragic Satire from Jonson to Pope: The Vituperative and Elegiac
Phases, and Their Relationships to the Neoclassical Pictorial Tradition,"
Ph.D. dissertation, Borwn University, 1972 (1968)(2 vols.). [Source:
OCLC, World Cat database]
John S. Terry
[law firm profile]
Marjorie Tesser
Marjorie Tesser, a former civil rights lawyer, is a poet. She co-edits The Mom Egg, a literary journal, and is co-editor of Browery Women: Poets, an anthology. Her chapbook of fairy talke poems, The Magic Feather was published by Finishing Line Press in 2011. Tesser attened the State University of New York at Albany and obtained her law degree from Brooklyn Law School. She lives in Nack, New York. Her
Euell Thomas
Euell Thomas is a 1996 graduate of Hendrix College and a 2005 graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, School of Law. He has been published in the Colorado Lawyer, The Springfield News-Leader, and The Southwest Standard. Before attending law school, he was active in Slam Poetry events. Euell resides in Denver, Colorado. [See: Euell Thomas, "Freddy," 35 (9) The Colorado Lawyer 49 (2006)] [Source: Personal communication with Euell Thomas, 04/20/07]
Randy Thomas
Randy Thomas is a litigation attorney in Woodbridge, Calfironia. He was born and raised in Stockton, California. He attended college at the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of California-Davis. He obtained his law degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. He first practical criminal law in Stockton andl later opened his law office in Woodbridge. He is known among family and friends as a poet.
Lynne Thompson
Lynn Thompson was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her parents were born in the Windward Islands, West Indies. She received her B.A. from Scripps College and a J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law. She is an is
an attorney, and serves as Director of Employee and Labor Relations at UCLA. She has published two chapbooks of poetry, We Arrive By Accumulation (SeaMoon Press, 2002) and Through A Window. Her poems have appeared in Runes, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry International, Voices From Leimert Park, Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies and, Blue Arc: An Anthology of California Poets. Her first collection of poems, Beg No Pardon, was published by
Perugia Press in 2007.
Tom Thompson
Tom Thompson is Gila County, Arizona lawyer. [Source: Sally Simmons, "Lawyering at Street Level," Arizona Attorney 12 (November 2004)]
Jean Helen Thoresen
Kit Thornton
Kit Thornton is a graduate of the College of Law, West Virginia University. After law school he worked in the Public Defender's office and is now Deputy Director of the State Supreme Court of West Virginia where he is the director of the "Courtroom of the Future Project." Thornton also chairs the Law and Technology Committee for the West Virginia State Bar, and teaches law and technology at West Virginia State. He is also a motorcyclist. His first published poetry appeared in Sillhouette magazine.
[A footnote: Kit Thornton, when he was a law student at West Virginia, was insistent that the creator of this website learn the "new technology" and not go the way of the plow horse retired to pasture. Thanks, Kit. Jim Elkins]
Michael T. Thorsnes
Michael T. Thorsnes is retired, of counsel, Thorsnes, Bartolotta & McGuire, San Diego. Thorsnes, before serving as national finance co-chair and poet laureate for the presidential campaing of John Kerry was recognized as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in California" by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Thorsnes was born at La Joalla, California, January 3, 1943. He obtained his B.A. from San Diego State College in 1965, and his law degree from the University of San Diego in 1968. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the University of San Diego. Thorsnes's law firm bio indicates that he "published an anthology of predominantly Irish poetry under the pseudonym of Rowdy O'Yeats" and "is also working on a one man show on Yeats" and "a second book of original poetry." [Source: Law firm bio & Martindale-Hubbell]
Maureen Thorson
Maureen Thorson is a Washington, D.C. lawyer. She was born in Newport,
Rhode Island, in 1978, and obtained her B.A. from the University
of Virginia in 2000, and her J.D. from Georgetown University. She
was admitted to practice law in 2003. She runs a press, Big Game
Books. [author
website] [blog]
[Law
firm profile] ["History
of Time"] ["The
Blue Ox"] [Twenty
Questions for the Drunken Sailor] [Poetry
Society of America] [Big
Game Books]
Jan David Tissot (1940-2008)
Jan Tissot is a graduate of Seattle University Law School and had
thirty years experience as a criminal defense investigator (Seattle).
He published four books of poetry, including Crow Speaks
(Lohan Publications, 1991), Kali Yuga (Writers Workshop-Calcutta,
1993). He is also the author of a novel, Keiki (Parhelion,
2002).
Robert B. Tolins
Robert Tolins was born on January 5, 1952 in San Diego, California.
He received his B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1974 and
his law degree from Boston College in 1977. He was an assistant
district attorney in New Brunswick, New Jersey (1978-1980) and then
litigation supervision for the Boston Public Housing Authority (1984-1990).
He moved to Lowell, Massachusetts where he was a civil and criminal
lawyer from 1990 to 1998. Diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, he
retired from the practice of law at age forty and took up writing.
His novel, Unhealthy Boundaries, was published by Dry Bones
Press in 2000. His poetry and short stories have appeared in various
journals. [Source: Contemporary Authors Online,
Gale, 2002]
Rusty Tolley
Rusty Tolley is a former attorney from Georgia, and now a New Mexico
State Police officer. He resides in Animas, New Mexico.
James A. Toupin
James Toupin is General Counsel of the United States Patent and
Tradmark Office. Toupin was born in San Fracisco and graduated from
Stanford University. He obtained his law degree from the Boalt Hall
School of Law at theUniversity of California-Berkeley. His poems
have appeared in Raven Chronicles, The Classical Outlook,
Windfall, Loch Raven Review, and Umbrella.
He is the co-translator of the Selected Letters of Alexis de
Tocqueville (University of California Press).
[US Patent
and Trademark Office Executive Bio] [poems]
["A
Defense of Solitaire"]
Saul Touster
Saul Touster is professor emeritus and retired director of the Legal Studies Program at Brandeis University where he founded the Humanities and the Professions Program in 1981 to develop seminars on law and literature for judges to share and reflect on career and ethical issues. This widely acclaimed program expanded over the years to include judicial educators, teachers, lawyers, doctors, public officials, and leaders in the fields of business and health care.
Touster obtained his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1946, and his J.D. from Harvard in 1948. After law school, he practiced law in New York City, and in 1955 joined the faculty at SUNY-Buffalo School of Law as a professor of law. After several years of university administration, he joined the Brandeis faculty in 1979 to direct t he university’s undergraduate education in law. In 1982 he was named the Joseph M. Proskauer Professor in Law and Social Welfare in the Brandeis Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare. Since his retirement in 1993, he redirected his interests to the study of the Holocaust during which he discovered significant documents which became the basis for his publication of A Survivors’ Haggadah (Jewish Publication Society, 2000) and the Treatment of Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust, 1945-1948: Dilemmas of Law, Care and Bureaucracy (Brandeis University, 2000).
Touster has over the years been writing and publishing poetry in a variety of little magazines. A collection of his poetry, Still Lives and Other Lives, was published by the University of Missouri Press in 1966.
Alby Tramposch
Alby Tramposch was born in New York City. He is a lawyer with
the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also practiced
patent law. He noted, on a web-site no longer available, that
Tramposch is also a playwright and has produced, under the pseudonym,
A.A. 'Papa' Talbert, a collection of illustrated children's poetry,
Papa's Poems: A Celebration of Fun for Kids of All Ages,
an interactive CD-ROM.
Marc Tretin
Marc Tretin is an attorney who specializes in family law, primarily child abuse/neglect,
juvenile delinquency, child support and custody. One of his poems was published online
by Paper Street.
Shane Truett
Shane Truett
received his BA in English in 1999 from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He was a criminal defense attorney with Monks Law Firm in Durham, North Carolina after graduating from North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2006.
Paul Trujillo
Paul Trujillo practices law in Jarales, New Mexico. He received a BS in electrial Engineering at New Mexico State University and his JD from the University of New Mexicao Law School in 1996. Trujillo once noted that he has been writing poetry since childhood. His poem, "Hombre" appears in the New Mexicao Bar Bulletin, v.52 (2), January 9, 2013.
Alison M. Turner
Alison Turner is a partner in the firm, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from UCLA School of Law in 1984. She joined Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland in 1990. She obtained her A.B. from Radcliffe College. Her poetry has appeared in
Mid-American Review,
Hudson Review, Nimrod, Margie: American Journal of Poetry, Santa Monica Review, and other journals.
Jeff Turner
Jeff Turner is a lawyer, poet, and human rights activist; he resides in Dallas, Texas.
Ron Turner
Ron Turner is a Nashville, Tennessee lawyer, and former city councilman. In pursuit of his
theological interest, he obtained a Master's degree at Vanderbilt
Divinity School. He is currently a
professor of criminal justice at Cumberland University in Lebanon,
Tennessee. Turner is the author of a book of poetry titled, My Father My Sons
and Me In Between (1997). [Ron
Turner]
Michael Tusa, Jr.
Michael Tusa is an attorney, poet, and adjunct professor at LSU-Shreveport.
Christopher Dinwiddy Tussling
Christopher Tussling is a Philadelphia lawyer. His poem, "A Law Reviewer Reminisces," appears in Scribes Journal of Legal Writing (1992).
Ann Tweedy
Ann Tweedy grew up in a small town in Massachusetts. She completed her undergraduate work at Bryn Mawr College
and received her law degree from University of California-Berkeley
(Boalt Hall). She has been writing poetry since she moved to the West Coast in 1996. Tweedy is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Beleaguered Oases (TcCreativePress, 2010) and White Out (Finishing Line Press, 2013). Her poetry has been published in Rattle, Clackamas
Literary Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Drag
King Anthology, Pedestal Magazine, Awakenings Review, Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly, and Stringtown Review. Tweedy teaches at Hamline University School of Law. [Source: Personal Communication with
Ann Tweedy] [Ann Tweedy website] ["A
Cyclist's Peripheral Vision"] ["Martin
Luther King Day"] ["domestic violence"and other poems] ["life without descartes"] ["word games"] ["rearrangement"]
Beth Understahl
Beth Understahl's's poetry has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden's Ferry, The Formalist, and Faultline. She obtained her law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 2006. She has an M.F.A from the University of California-Irvine.
Mark Unger
Mark Unger resides in San Antonio, Texas. [Mark Unger]
Azhar Usman
James Michael Valenti
James Valenti is an attorney in private practice and an adjunct professor of criminal justice at Roberts Wesleyan College. He is the author of Poetic Justice: Legal Rhymes and Riddles, 13 J. Paralegal Educ. & Prac. 149 (1997).
Sandra Del Valle
Sandra Del Valle spent ten years as a civil rights attorney for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York City and currently teaches at the CUNY Law School.
Xianchun J. Vendler
Xianchun Vendler received her undergraduate degree from Beijing University in 1983. She is also a graduate of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, the University of Texas-Austin (where she received her Ph.D), and from Loyola Law School-Los Angeles (where she obtained her J.D. in 1995). She is now a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice. Vendler is the author of You Zi Xin Zhong De Ge (a collection of poems in Chinese and English) published by World Affairs Press in 2003.
Darrell Vienna
Darrell Vienna was born in 1946 in Los Angeles, and is now a resident of Sierra Madre, Calfiornia. He describes his principal buisness as "lawyer and writer." He obtained his law degree from Loyola Law School. He began practicing law in 1994 and gave up the practice of law in 1997. He was, in some earlier life, a professional rodeo rider and show horse trainer.
Donald H. Vish
Donald Vish is a Louisville, Kentucky lawyer, poet, and photographer; graduate of Bellarmine College (1968) and obtained his law degree from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law (1970); author of Prideful Violets: Poems & Musings (2001) [Middleton Reutlinger—law firm profile]
Lynne Spigelmire Viti
Lynne Viti was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.
She is currently a senior lecturer in the Writing Program at Wellesley
College, where for two decades she has taught courses in bioethics,
legal studies, media studies, and journalism. Viti attended the
College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and received her B.A. in English
Literature from Barnard College. After teaching high school English
for several years, she earned her Ph.D. and J.D. from Boston College.
After law school, she clerked for the Justices of Superior Court
of Massachusetts, and subsequently served as Chief Law Clerk to
the Justices. She was an assistant general counsel at the Massachusetts
Bay Transportation Authority, where she focused on contracts and
appeals work, and later moved to the private sector, working as
a litigation associate at a former Boston law firm, Harrison and
Maguire, for several years before she resumed her full-time teaching
career, at Wellesley College. Viti has authored numerous academic
articles on legal topics, composition theory, literature and media.
She has published two chapbooks of poetry, Baltimore Girls
(Finishing Line Press, 2017) and The Glamorganshire Bible
(Finishing Line Press, 2018).
Anne Reynolds Voegtlen
Anne Voegtlen practices with Heller
Ehrman in Seattle. Voegtlen's poetry has appeared in Poetry
magazine, CALYX, Kalliope, and in a collection entitled
Night Dive: A Collection of Poems (submitted for an M.F.A.
dissertation, Warren Wilson College, 1995).
Carol Waities
[Source: Philadelphia Inquirier, March 21, 2004, p. LO5][Lawyer in Lindenwold]
Harry Waitzman
Harry Waitzman grew up on a farm in Rockland County. He served in Naval Air Corps during World War II. He received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, an L.L.B. from Columbia Law School, and practiced law for thirty-five years. He then obtained his M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1993. His work has appeared in Tikkum, Seattle Review, Mudfish, Lumina, Slipstream, and Abiko Journal. He is the author of two chapbooks, Seven Views of Hudson's River (Alms House Press, 1987) and Skunk Cabbage (Box Turtle Press, 2004).
Sage Walcott
Sage Walcott is a former lawyer. He lives in Gloucester,
Massachusetts. Walcott obtained his B.A. from Bard College and his
J.D. from Boston College. He was admitted to practice in 1971. After
leaving the legal profession, he took up teaching literature and
creative writing at North Shore Community College. He is the author
of Almond Memories (Folly Cove Books, 1997).
Jayne Moore Waldrop
Jayne Moore Waldrop is a Kentucky writer and attorney. She's
a graduate of the University of Kentucky (B.A., J.D.) and the Murray
State University Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing (fiction).
She is the author of Retracing My Steps (Finishing Line Press,
2019) and Pandemic Lent: A Season in Poems (Finishing Line
Press, 2021). Her linked story collection, Drowned Town,
was published in 2021 by University Press of Kentucky. Waldrop lives
in Lexington.
Cheryl Walker
Cheryl D. S. Walker is a member of Bryan
Cave LLP's Banking and Business Finance and Entrepreneurial,
Technology & Commercial Practice Client Service Groups, and
the co-leader of the Commercial Practice Business Response Team.
Ms. Walker drafts and negotiates loan transactions and counsels
new and emerging businesses on issues related to business organization
and operation. Walker is the co-author of Missouri Secured Transactions
Under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and a poetry
chapbook, Silence Isn't Quiet (River King Poetry Press).
Her poetry has appeared in St. Louis Muse (St. Louis Urban
League), Break Word With The World (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville),
Drumvoices Revue (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville),
Eyeball Magazine (First Civilizations, Inc.), and When
the Lions Roar (Washington University).
Walker obtained her B.S. degree from University of Missouri-Rolla,
in 1986 and her J.D. from Washington University in 1990.
[Source: Personal Communication with Cheryl Walker]
George M. Wallace
George M. Wallace is Pasadena, California attorney and currently
a partner in the firm of Wallace & Schwartz. Wallace & Schwartz
is a two-attorney firm with a mixed litigation practice emphasizing
professional liability defense (mostly on behalf of veterinarians),
insurance coverage issues, general business litigation, and civil
appeals. [blog: A
Fool in the Forest] [an
article about Wallace]
John E. Wallace
John E. Wallace is a former staff attorney for the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 5th and 6th Circuits. His poem, "Unpublished
Opinion Twelve-Hundred," appeared in 6 Green Bag 2d 331.
Joni M. Wallace
Joni Wallace grew up in Moab, Utah, and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
She graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law in
1990. After law school she clerked for United States District Judge
Richard Matsch in Denver, Colorado. She practices law in Tucson,
Arizona in the areas of post-conviction relief and appellate review
in capital cases.
Wallace received an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana
in 1998 and was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship by the Arizona
Commission on the Arts in 1999. She has twice been a resident at
the Vermont Studio Center and her work has been published in numerous
journals. Her first chapbook of poems, Redshift, was published
by Kore Press in 2001. She currently teaches writing workshops through
the University of Arizona Poetry Center and in the state’s
correctional facilities.
Tonya M. Evans-Walls
Tonya Evans-Walls, an intellectual property lawyer, has joing the law faculty at Widener University. Evans-Walls attended Northewestern University and received her law degree from Howard University where she served as editor-in-chief of the Howard Law Journal.
Manning G. Warren III
Manning Warren was born at Dothan, Alabama on August 20, 1948. He was educated at the University of Georgia (1966-67) and University of Alabama (where he received his B.A. in 1970) and received his J.D. degree from George Washington University in 1973 (and was admitted to practice that year).
Warren is presently a professor of law at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville where he teaches securities regulation, corporations, and EEOC law. [Source: Martindale.com]
Warren's poem, "An Evening in a Meadow" appears in the American Bar Association Journal, vol. 65 (9)(September 1979), p. 1430. [Manning Warren Biography][Poetry]
Michael Walls
Michael Walls is a labor lawyer in Atlanta. His poems have appeared in a New York Quarterly, Atlanta Review, Many Mountains Moving, Free Lunch, and Cumberland Poetry Review. His chapbook, The Blues Singer, was published by the Frank Cat Press in 2003. [J. Michael Walls]
Ray Warman
Ray Warman is a corporate lawyer and poet.
Anne Waters
Anne Waters is a research associate at the State University of New
York. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Purdue University and received
her law degree from the University of New Mexico Law School. Her
undergraduate work in philosophy was done at the University of New
Mexico and she obtained Masters' degrees in philosophy at Washington
University in St. Louis and at Purdue University.
Waters is the founder and President of the American Indian
Philosophy Association, Associate Editor of the Value Inquiry BookSeries
for Editions Rodopi, an international press. [Anne
Waters]
Christopher Watkins
Christopher Watkins resides at New Paltz, New York.
William A. Watson
William A. Watson is the author of a collection of poetry titled, The Cemetery Hollow Anthology: The Poetry of William A. Watson (2004). Watson is reputedly the poet laureate of Middlesboro, Kentucky. He is an attorney and a former FBI Agent. Watson is a 1951 William and Mary graduate.
William D. Webb
Willam Webb is located in Gardner, Kansas. His poem, "Who Sayeth?" appears in 61 ABA J. 1435 (1975).
David Weinberg
David Weinberg is a poet, performer, writer, graphic artist, and
former lawyer. He was a founding member of the Oak
Cliff Circle of Poets in Oak Cliff, Texas and the author of
Dead Man's Shoes, a collection of poetry that has undergone numerous
printings.
Jesse Weiner
Jesse Weiner, a New York City poet, is coeditor and publisher
of Salonika. Weiner is a graduate of SUNY Old Westbury and
Harvard Law School. His poetry has appeared in Arshile, the
New York Quarterly, Wormwood Review, Mississippi
Mud and other magazines. His books include Animadversity
and The Critique of Language, In Harm's Way (with
Victor Asaro), and About These Last. ["Finding
Love In The All-Night Grocery"] [untitled]
["Salonika"]
Leonard Weintraub
Leonard Weintraub is a practicing attorney who lives in Montclair, New Jersey. He is the author of a collection of poetry titled Poems Unpleasant (Langdon Street Press, 2010) [Poems Unpleasant]
Alice Weiss
Alice Weiss was a teacher of English and American literature (for 10 years) and then a civil rights attorney and public defender in Lousiana (for 21 years) from 1977 to 1998. She obtained her J.D. from Boston University and obtained an MFA in poetry at New England College in 2010. Her poetry appears in
Wilderness House Literary Review, Jewish Currents,and Muddy River Literary Review. She resides in Brewster, Massachusetts. [YouTube video: Alice Weiss reads at Stone Soup]
Steve Wessels
Steve Wessels is a family law attorney in Sacramento, California. [law firm & poetry website]
Terry Wetherby
Terry Wetherby is a Kentucky lawyer by way of the West coast.
She received her Master of Arts degree from California State University
in 1973 on the basis of a collection of poems titled Junctures:
Poems. Her first poetry chapbook, Black Roses: Poems
was published in 1974 in San Francisco by Aisling. Another short
collection of poetry (which was co-authored with Sevrin Housen),
Golden Gate Poems, was published in San Francisco by Western
Gate in 1975. Wetherby edited an anthology of women's poetry titled
New Poets, Women: An Anthology (Les Femmes Pub., 1976). She
is also the author of Conversations: Working Women Talk About
Doing a "Man's Job" (Les Femmes Pub., 1977).
Robert George Wetmore
Robert Wetmore, a native of New Milford, Connecticut, practices
law in Wallingford, Connecticut. He was born on July 11, 1952. He
graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1974. Wetmore's
poetry has appeared in various small press journals. He has recently
published a collection of his poetry, Old Thoughts, New Directions
(Publish America, 2005) [The
Poetry Cove--a selection of Wetmore poems]
Susan Wheatley
Susan Wheatley is a probate lawyer, poet, and a founder of the
Walnut Street Peoetry Society at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati.
Edd Dudley Wheeler
Bob White
Simone White
Simone White was born Middletown, Connecticut, and raised in
Philadelphia. She earned her BA from Wesleyan University, JD from
Harvard Law School, and MFA from the New School. White is the author
of the full-length collection House Envy of All the World
(Factory School, 2010) and the chapbooks Dolly (2008), Unrest
(2013), and Of Being Dispersed (2016). She is completing
a PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and lives in Brooklyn,
New York.
Alexandra
Wilcox
Alexandra Wilcox is a former attorney, writer,
educator, and community advocate. She received her M.F.A.
in creative writing from UC Riverside. Her poetry has appeared
in Quatrain.Fish, Verse-Virtual, and Scarlet
Leaf Review.
Betty-Lynn White
Betty-Lynn White is an attorney, poet and published songwriter. She resides in Westport, Connecticut. She is general counsel for R.T. Vanderbilt Company, Norwalk, Connecticut. White was born in 1951. She was admitted to the bar in 1977. She obtained her B.A. from Gettsburg College, and her J.D. from New York University.
Mary Jane White
Mary Jane
White was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Reed College. She attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and studied law at Duke University and the University of Iowa. Her poetry and translations have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Crazy Horse, and Russian: The Modern Period, an anthology of translations. Her first book of poetry, Starry Sky to Starry Sky was published in 1988 by Holy Cow! Press. She practices law in Waukon, Iowa.
Robert M. White
Robert White is an Albuquerque, New Mexico city attorney and poet.
Simone White
Simone White was born in 1972 in Middletown, Connecticut, and grew up in Philadelphia. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1997, she practiced law for seven years. Simone is the author of Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), House Envy of All of the World (Heretical Texts, 2010), the chapbook Dolly (Q Ave Press, 2008) (curated by Ross Gay, with the paintings of Kim Thomas). Her work has also appeared in The Claudius App, Aufgabe, The Recluse, Callaloo, and Ploughshares. She lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Thomas Scott White
Wendy A. White
[law
firm bio] [See: Douglas Fruehling, Wendy A. White: Lawyer Finds
Solace, Compassion, Release in Poetry, 16 (2) Washington Business
Journal 19 (1997)]
J.T. Whitehead
J.T. Whitehead's first collection of poems is titled The Table of the Elements (Broadkill River Press, 2015). Whitehead holds an AB from Wabash College in English & Philosophy, an MA in Philosophy from Purdue, and a JD from Indiana. He worked as a labor lawyer (on the workers side) and as a criminal lawyer. He lives in Indianapolis.
Robert Whitehill
"Born in 1947 in North Carolina, Whitehill moved as a child to Lubbock, Texas, where he stayed through his college years. His parents, both of them children of Jewish immigrants, were themselves extremely assimilated. . . .
As an undergraduate at Texas Tech in Lubbock, Whitehill
found his first Hebrew conversational partner in an Israeli Arab
fellow student. At the age of twnety-one, he took his first trip
to Israel, spending two months in an intensive language school at
the University of Texas in Austin. While working toward his law
degree, he also sat in on Hebrew classes and completed an MA in
English literature. A few years later, to relieve the tedium of
an appellate hearing—by now he was working in a civil court—he
picked up a pen and wrote his first Hebrew poem. It was accepted
for publication by Hadoar." [Michael
Weingrad, The Last of the (Hebrew) Mohicans, 121 (3) Commentary
45 (2006)]
Whitehill's first poetry collection, Orvim Humim
("Brown Crows") was published in Israel in 1977. A s second collection,
Efes Makom ("No Place"), was published in Israel in 1981.
"In 1983, Whitehill and his family moved from Austin, Texas
to the Washington, D.C. suburb of Potomac, Maryland. . . . Whitehill
worked for the Federal Communications Commission, in the low-power
broadcasting regulation division. In 1990, Whitehill started his
own import-export company, Whitehill Trade Services, which primarily
traded glassware, electronics, and urea-formaldehyde between the
United States, Israel, and China. . . . Whitehill's third book,
After the Silence, was published by Carmel Publishing Company,
Jerusalem, in June 2007. A fourth book, "Tap Dancing Through Black
Holes," was published by Hakibutz Hameuhad Publishing Company, in
January 2014." Wikipedia.
James R. Whitley
James Whitley holds degrees from Cornell, Boston, Harvard, and Northeastern.
His poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared
in Caribbean Writer, Mississippi Review, Poetry
Midwest, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Xavier Review.
He is the author of two chapbooks, Pieta (Pudding House Publications,
2001) and The Golden Web (Wind River Press, 2003), and two
collections of poetry, Immersion (Lotus Press, 2002) and This is The Red Door (Ironwood Press, 2009).
Whitley was born in Mount Vernon, New York and grew up in New York
City with three younger brothers and three younger sisters. He now
lives in Boston, Massachusetts where he works as a staff attorney
with the nonprofit organization Community Catalyst that focuses
on health care justice issues.
["Postcard
From Orbis Tertius" (after Borges, Wittgenstein)] ["Nights
of Gin and Ashes"] ["Tuber"]
["Poetics"]
["The
Golden Web"] ["Ontogeny,
a haiku series"] ["Chai
Tea, Raw Sugar"] ["Take
Away This Hunger That I Might Save My Soul From Further Diminution"]
["This
Too Shall Pass"] ["Bodily"]
["Seasonal"]
["Adamantium"]
["Your
Thumb Print on My Forehead"] ["Champagne
for One"] ["Pumpkin
Cheesecake for One"] ["How
the Whale Got Her Throat (after Kipling)"] ["Cast
Away"] [Three
Poems] [Poems]
Alexandra Wilcox
Alexandra Wilcox lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an online Professor in Employment and Labor Law. Her poems have appeared in various literary journals.
Stephen B. Wiley
Stephen B. Wiley is the author of a collection of poems titled, Hero Island (Oasis, 2005). He resides and practices law in Morristown, New Jersey, where he was born and raised. Hero Island is his first book.
Charles D. Williams
Charles Williams practices law in Munfordville, Kentucky. He was born in 1948. He obtained his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Kentucky. His collection of poems, Asparagus Seems Deaf was published in 2006 by Harmony House Publishers. [Charles D. Williams law firm website]
Day Williams
Day Williams is the author of 100 Sonnets (Days Rays, 2008). Williams is also a photographer and a painter.
Elizabeth Yahn Williams
Elizabeth Yahn Williams is a graduate of Marymount College. She obtained her JD at
Loyola University and was a founder of California Women Lawyers. After practicing law for several decades, she became a poet, playwright, and educator. She is the author of a chapbook, Seasonal Reflections, published in 2009.
Marni Williams
Marni M. Williams is from Chester, Pennsylvania. She obtained her B.A. from Penn State University and her J.D. from Temple. She practied corporate law and served as a prosecutor in Philadelphia. She is the author of My Little Book of Poetry: Marni Speaks, Marni Seeks Truth (2003). [Marin N. Williams]
Norman Williams
Norman Williams is the author of One Unblinking Eye (Swallow Press, 2003)(The Waywiser Press, 2003) and The Unlovely Child: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1985)(1984). He received an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an Ingram Merrill Fellowship, the I. B. Lavan Award, and an Amy Lowell Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Hudson Review, New England Review, and New Criterion, among other periodicals.
Williams represented himself in the eponymous case of Williams
v. Vermont, 472 U.S. 14 (1985), which resulted in the refund of
millions of dollars of unconstitutional motor vehicle taxes by the
State of Vermont. He lives with his wife, daughter and son in Burlington,
Vermont, where he works as a litigator for Gravel and Shea. [Poetry Foudatuib Bio] [One
Unblinking Eye] [A
Short History of the Perverse, review of One Unblinking Eye][Law
Firm bio] [Poems] ["The Genius of Small-town America" -- The Writer's Almanac]
Susan Settlemyre Williams
Susan Williams is a retired real estate attorney and holds an MFA degree in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her poetry has appeared in Mississippi Review, 42opus, Sycamore Review, Marlboro Review, diode, Shenandoah, storySouth, Barrow Street, Cream City Review, DIAGRAM, Calyx, and Aethlon, and other journals. Her chapbook, Possession was published by Finishing Line Press in 2007. Williams is associate literary editor of the online journal Blackbird, which regularly features her author interviews and book reviews.
Williams obtained her law degree from the University of Richmond
(1984), and was senior real estate attorney for Circuit City Stores
at the time her of retirement in 1992. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.
[Source: Personal communication with Susan William, February, 25,
2005] [Interview]
Rhonda Williford
Rhonda Williford is a lawyer at the National Labor Relations
Board and lifelong resident of the Washington, D.C. area. Her chapbook,
One Wide Sky, was published by Argonne Hotel Press in 1997.
Her poetry has appeared in various poetry journals. ]
Wendy Willis
Wendy Willis is the Interim Director of the
Policy Consensus Initiative at the
National Policy Consensus Center, Portland State University. She previously served as the Executive Director for City Club of Portland. Earlier in her career, she served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender and was a law clerk to a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Her poetry
has been published in the Bellingham Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Phantom Kangaroo, Poetry Northwest, and Windfall. Willis graduated from Georgetown Law Center and holds a B.A. from Willamette University.
Shangrila Willy
Shangrila Willy is an attorney who lives in Baltimore.
Willy obtained her JD from Georgetown University in 2007.
Mark E. Wilson
Mark Wilson
has been a lawyer in Chicago for over twenty years. He lives in Lake County, Illinois. In addition to his poetry, Wilson is a songwriter and guitarist.
Richard R. Wilson
Richard R. Wilson is an attorney with Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson. He obtained his B.A. from Yale University, and his J.D. from University of Washington school of Law. [Richard R. Wilson]
Ronaldo Wilson
Warren Barrios Wilson
Warren Wilson is an Oakland, California lawyer and poet. His brother, Lionel Wilson, was mayor of Oakland. Wilson was born in 1921. He is a graduate of the University
of California and has a J.D. degree from Hastings College of Law. He was admitted to law practice in 1953. Wilson is the author of a small collection of poems,
Touch Stones in Poetic Verse (The Barrios Trust, 2000).
[Sources: Cicero A. Estrella, "Oakland portraitist
searches for the essence of subjects," San Francisco Chronicle,
January 8, 2004, p. E1; "Meet a new bronze friend in downtown,
Oakland Tribune, February 2, 2004; Lawyer Locator, martindale.com]
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a southern California teacher, lawyer and writer. Her poetry has appeared in Crescent Moon Journal, Triplopia, T-Zero: The Writer’s Ezine, Poems Niederngasse, Mindfire Renewed, Loch Raven Review, and the London Red Cross Insomnia Project.
Ronna Wineberg
Ronna Wineberg was born in Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan and the University of Denver College of Law. Her collection of short stories, Second Language, was published in 2005. Her stories have appeared in Berkeley Fiction Review, Colorado Review, So To Speak, and other literary journals. Wineberg received a fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the John Atherton Scholarship at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She has been awarded residencies to the Ragdale Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and has taught writing at New York University and elsewhere. Since 2000, Wineberg has been the fiction editor of the Bellevue Literary Review. She also has worked for Legal Services, as a public defender and in the private practice of law.
[How I Became a Writer]
Jeanne Winer
Jeanne Winer has published both poetry and short stories in various journals. She has practiced as a criminal defense lawyer for over thirty years, currently in Colorado.
[See: Jeanne Winer, "How I Ended Up In Law School," 35 (9) The Colorado Lawyer 50 (2006)]
Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter is a Santa Rosa, California lawyer. Her poems have appeared in Parthenon West Review, Ekphrasis, caesura, The Poetry Broadside Series: The Making of Peace, and have been published by So to Speak and the Sonoma County Transit "Poetry on the Bus" program. Winter obtained her B.A. from the University of Texas-Austin and her M.A. from Boston College. She graduated from the University of California-Davis School of Law in 1995 and lives with her husband near Glen Ellen, California.
Mary Winters
Mary Winters is (was?) a poverty lawyer in New Jersey.
She obtained her degree from Northeastern University School of Law.
Her poetry has appeared in academic journals
and small press collections since 1992. She is the author of A
Pocket History of the World (Nightshade Press, 1996) and chapbooks,
Grace Itself Invisible: Poems (Pudding House Publications, 1994), It Was a Perfect House: Poetry (Scars Publications, 1994), City: Poetry (Scars Publications, 1994), Staple It Down: Poems (New Spirit Press, 1995), Winter Prayers (Scars Publications), and Mary Winters Greatest Hits (Pudding House Publications, 2001). Winters was the "featured poet"
in Pudding 36 (May 1998). Her poems have appeared in Anthology of Magazine Verse &
Yearbook of American Poetry. ["Party
Animal"] [Two poems]
Richard Wirick
Richard Wirick is a writer and lawyer. He practices law in Los Angeles. His fiction has appeared in the Indiana Review, Northwest Review, Texas Review, Oxford Magazine, Berkeley Review and other publications. Wirick's poetry has appeared in Epoch and Indiana Review. He is the author of Many an Incense Bearing Tree, a collection of travel
essays and two collections of short stories, Fables of Rescue (Routledge, 2004) and
So Slow is the Rose to
Open (2005). He is also the author of
One Hundred Siberian Postcards (Telegram Books, 2006).
Katherine Wise
Katherine Wise is the author of "Transcending the Body Politic," a poem that appeared in the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (Vol. 3: 1, 1995) while she was a student at the Ohio State University College of Law.
Gary Witt
Gary Witt practices law in Denver, Colorado.
Warren Woessner
Warren Woessner was born on May 31, 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey and grew up in Woodstown, a farm town in southern New Jersey. His father was a chemist. Woessner received his A.B. degree in 1966 from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1971. Before taking up the practice of law he was a senior research scientist (1972-1981) with Miles Laboratories in Madison, Wisconsin. He is a founding partner of Schwegman Lundberg Woessner. (SLW), a Minneapolis-based law firm specializing in intellectual property law. SLW has more than 60 attorneys and represents Fortune 500 companies and major universities. The law firm web-site notes that Woessner "is a registered patent attorney and founding shareholder of SLW, practicing in chemical, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, medical treatments, diagnostics, and agricultural and food chemistry."
Woessner's interest in writing began at Cornell University workshops with James McConkey and A.R. Ammons, where he was associate editor of The Trojan Horse. In 1968, Woessner, with James Bertolino founded Abraxas, a small press poetry journal. Woessner was also a founder of WORT-FM and a host of the station's poetry fiction program, Visitors from Inner Space. Woessner's poetry, widely anthologized, has appeared in various periodicals and magazines.
Woessner's latest chapbook, is Our Hawk, a beautiful
little book by The Toothpaste Press (St. Paul, Minnesota, 2005).
"Handset in Walbaum and Lydian Cursive types, illustrated,
and printed on Johannot paper by Suzanne Shaffer under the supervision
of Allan Kornblum. Sewn into O'Malley Crackle covers, handmade
by Suzanne Shaffer at Cave Paper." 250 copies signed by the
author and the artist. [Warren
Woessner] [Wikipedia] ["Alberto"] [Poems: Poetry Foundation]
Warren Wolfson
Warren Wolfson has been an Illinois judge for
thirty years, first on the Cook County Circuit Court,
then on the Illinois Appellate Court. Aside from his
duties as an appellate judge, he writes and teaches evidence law,
but saves time for poetry. Two of his poems have been published
in Rattle, a third has appeared publication in the Rockford
Review.
Janet S. Wong
Janet Wong was born in Los Angeles and grew up in California.
She graduated from UCLA with a degree in history and then obtained
her law degree from Yale Law School. She practiced corporate and
labor law and then took up writing. Wong's published collections
of poems for children have received numerous awards. She is the
author of Good Luck Gold and Other Poems (Maxwell
Macmillan International, 1994); A Suitcase of Seaweed and Other
Poems (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1996); The
Rainbow Hand: Poems About Mothers and Children; Behind the
Wheel: Poems About Driving; and Night Garden: Poems from
the World of Dreams (Margaret K. McElderry Books,
2000). Wong's children's books include: This Next New Year (Frances Foster Books, 2000) and Buzz (Margaret
K. McElderry Book, 2000). [Janet
Wong]
Audra Woodard
Audra Woodard is an attorney and motivational speaker; she lives in Atlanta, Georgia. [source]
Amy Woolard
Amy Woolard is a senior policy attorney with Voices for
Virginia's Children, a public policy and advocacy organization
that focuses on children and poverty issues. She is a graduate
of the Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA in poetry writing) and the
University of Virginia School. Her first collection, Neck of
the Woods was published by Alice James Books in 2020.
David Worby
David Worby is a composer, screenwriter, playwrite, producer, television commentator, attorney, and poet. [David Worby]
Eleanor (Ernie) Wormwood
Ernie Wormwood of Leonardtown, Maryland, is a graduate of the National Law Center, George Washington University. She practiced administrative law before turning to poetry in l994. Her work has been published in the anthologies Poem, Revised, Primal Sanities, Poetic Voices Without Borders and in various journals. [Poems-1 :: Poems-2 :: Innisfree Poetry Journal] [She reads her poetry and is interviewed by Grace Cavalieri for The Poet and the Poem, on the Library of Congress webcast.] [ars poetica]
Holly Wotherspoon
Holly Wotherspoon is an adoption attorney who lives north of San Francisco. She is a poet, naturalist, art tour guide, and a member of River Town Poets who reads her poems in the North Bay area. Her poetry appears in Unbroken and Mulberry Fork Review.
Bruce McMarion Wright
[Bruce McMarion
Wright]
Brian Yapko
Raechelle Yballe
Raechelle Yballe was born in the Philippines, and now lives in Akron,
Ohio.
Debbie Yee
Debbie Yee is a trusts and estates attorney and poet in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow, Debbie's poems have appeared in Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women, Barn Owl Review, OCHO and MiPOesias. Yee graduated from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1998, where she obtained her undergraduate degree in 1995. Yee was born and raised in Sacramento. [Debbie Yee] ["Mabel and Laureen" & "Notes to Man, to Fish"]
Monica Youn
Monica Youn is an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at
the New York University School of Law and an adjunct assistant professor
of creative writing at Columbia University. Youn graduated from
Princeton in 1993 and from Yale Law School in 1998; she obtained
a Master's degree at Oxford. A Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford
University, her collection of poetry, Barter, was
published by Graywolf Press in 2003. Youn's poetry has been published
in Paris Review, AGNI, American Letters & Commentary,
Denver Quarterly, Fence, LIT, Poetry Review,
and other journals. Youn was raised in Houston, Texas.
[Monica
Youn] ["Titian's
Salome"] [Dispatches
:: Journal] [The
Poet and the Poem, Library of Congress]
Billie Jean Young
Billie Jean Young is a lawyer, poet and performer. She was educated
in Choctaw County schools and holds degrees from Selma University,
Judson College, and Samford University's Cumberland School of Law.
She teaches at Mississippi State University-Meridian. [Billie
Jean Young]
Lawrence A. Young
[Larry Young law firm profile]
Michael Youth
Michael Youth was born in 1974. He received his B.A. from the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He has published two short
volumes of poetry and is a founding mmember of The Motorcycle Poets.
Harry Youtt
Harry Youtt practiced law for twenty years, in New York and Cleveland,
specializing in constitutional and intellectual property issues.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1987 and is now a poet, writer, and drama
critic. He teaches writing at the UCLA Extension Writer's Program
and information design at the University of California-Irvine.
Youtt recently served as moderator and a featured poet in "A
Day of Poetry Against the War" in Los Angeles, California and
is serving as Poet-in-Residence at the Philosophical Research Center
in Los Angeles. His current collection of poetry, entitled What
My Father Didn't Know I Learned from Him is published by Trafford
Press.
Youtt began his career as a litigation attorney, primarily in New
York City. In 1967, he graduated from Northwestern University's
School of Law, where he was an editor of the law review and a member
of the school's National Moot Court team, which was a finalist in
the annual national competition in New York. Except for a four year
stint as Director and chief trial lawyer of the Legal Aid/Public
Defender's Office of Cleveland, Ohio, his twenty-year practice focused
upon constitutional law, intellectual property, and motion picture
litigation, as well as white-collar crime. In Cleveland, Youtt served
for several years as an adjunct professor at the Cleveland State
University Law School. Throughout his practice, Harry was active
in the teaching of continuing education seminars for the National
Institute for Trial Advocacy, Northwestern University's summer short-course
program, the Practicing Law Institute, and the New York State Bar
Association.
Youtt's legal work now focuses on intellectual property and electronic
media. He conducts workshops for university and medical librarians
on techniques for negotiating software and Internet content licenses
and has served as advising counsel to the National Writers Union
in the landmark case of Teasing v. New York Times. He also
has represented the National Writers Union and the Writers Guild
of America before the National Commission on Uniform State Laws
committee during the drafting of the proposed uniform statute on
digital licensing.
For the past thirteen years, Youtt has been an instructor in the
UCLA Extension Writers Program where he co-teaches a popular fiction
writing course with his wife, Judith Bragger. Youtt and Bragger
have also taught courses via live video conferencing at the Palm
Springs Virtual University.
Youtt works as a consultant with corporations in video conference
techniques, as well as internet and intranet applications, multimedia,
presentations and strategic communications. He teaches courses in
Information Design and Writing for Convergent Media and Multi-media
in the Design and Digital Arts Program at the University of California,
Irvine. Youtt, one of the pioneers in distance learning, developed
UCLA Extension's original online courseware system. He was the
writer and content designer for the pilot website for the ABC/David
Kelley series, "The Practice." He created and taught a
UCLA Extension course on computer-based nonlinear fiction writing.
With his wife, Judith Prager, he conducts seminars and courses
on creativity at the University of Philosophical Research in Los
Angeles, California and is coordinator of community education at
the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. He is currently
(2003) at work co-writing the script for a feature film based on
the life of the biofeedback pioneers Elmer and Alyce Green. [Harry
Youtt] [The
Wide Lake of Poetry: An Essay] [Writers
need changing skills for New Media] [Source: Personal Communication with Harry Youtt]
Daniel Zampino
Daniel Zampino is Marblehead, Massachusetts, lawyer, poet, and sculptor.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Alfred de Zayas, Harvard Law School '70, member of the New York
and Florida Bar, practised commercial law in New York in the firm
of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and family law in Florida. He
worked 22 years as a lawyer for the United Nations in Geneva, where
he was President of the UN Society of Writers 1990-2005, and remains
Editor-in-chief of the UN literary journal Ex Tempore.
He has been visiting professor of international law at DePaul University
(Chicago), University of British Columbia (Vancouver), University
of Trier (Germany), Universidad de Alcala de Henares (Madrid) and
the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales.
At present he is professor of international law at the Geneva School
of Diplomacy. He has published poetry in English, French,
German and Spanish. One of his German poems "Beglueckt" was
translated into Chinese and published in a literary journal in Shanghai.
In 2005 he published the first English language translation of Rainer
Maria Rilke's Larenopfer, a cycle of 90 poems dedicated
to Rilke's homeland Bohemia and hometown Prague, as a bilingual
edition with commentary (published by Red Hen Press). [Source:
Alfred de Zayas, personal communication, March 29, 2006] [Wikipedia]
[Alfred de Zayas] [Personal
Website]
Dave Zerby
Dave Zerby is a lawyer for a Native Alaskan tribal health organization.
His poetry has appeared in the William and Mary Review, Bellevue
Literary Review, and other journals.
Molly Zhu
