The First Issue
The Lawpoets first issue came out after I'd been in the law business almost three years. Karen and Tom and John contributed a good bit of stuff, and I threw some in there too. Tom submitted a call for submissions in Poet's Marketplace, but nothing had come in yet.
We met one night at the office where I was quitting my job as a corporate slave to go work at the righteous personal injury place, which was in fact a good move for me. The office of course had a good copy machine, and thus began my career of creating a law poetry zine. The first issue is pretty cool, I think. Tom and I cranked out a lot of the editing and visual tricks one night working late late in my soon to be ex-office. Good time to use the photocopier liberally. Tom wrote a hilarious poem that I'll try to find and post here as I work on this site. I think after we were done, we wandered around downtown LA trying to find a cool hangout, and even AL's Bar was closed.
Well, at any rate, the fruit of our discontent is attached in PDF format below. Download, copy, reproduce, enjoy, and do your own thing with it, but just credit the authors and Lawpoets, please.
Oh yeah, one last thing. This creation is formatted a little strangely for a PDF, because I generally pushed the images and text toward the bottom of the page to make it easy to read, because it was all stapled and bluebacked at the top. So you need to scroll to the bottom of each page. They're not blank all the way down.
We met one night at the office where I was quitting my job as a corporate slave to go work at the righteous personal injury place, which was in fact a good move for me. The office of course had a good copy machine, and thus began my career of creating a law poetry zine. The first issue is pretty cool, I think. Tom and I cranked out a lot of the editing and visual tricks one night working late late in my soon to be ex-office. Good time to use the photocopier liberally. Tom wrote a hilarious poem that I'll try to find and post here as I work on this site. I think after we were done, we wandered around downtown LA trying to find a cool hangout, and even AL's Bar was closed.
Well, at any rate, the fruit of our discontent is attached in PDF format below. Download, copy, reproduce, enjoy, and do your own thing with it, but just credit the authors and Lawpoets, please.
Oh yeah, one last thing. This creation is formatted a little strangely for a PDF, because I generally pushed the images and text toward the bottom of the page to make it easy to read, because it was all stapled and bluebacked at the top. So you need to scroll to the bottom of each page. They're not blank all the way down.
» Click here to download FindeSiecle.pdf.