[New-Poetry] For those in CT or nearby, Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash, Saturday October 7th

[JforJames at aol.com]

11th Annual ‘Wallace Stevens Birthday  Bash’ 
Saturday October  7th, 2006, 6:30 P.M. 
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford,  CT

Featured Speaker:   
Lawrence Joseph, “The Poet and the Lawyer: The  Example of Wallace Stevens” 
Lawrence Joseph was born in Detroit in 1948. He attended  the University of 
Michigan, where he received the Hopwood Award for poetry;  Magdalene College, 
Cambridge University, where he read English; and the  University of Michigan 
Law School. He is the author of five books of poems,  including Into It (Farrar, 
Straus & Giroux, 2005) and Codes,  Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 
1973-1993 (FSG, 2005). He is also the  author of Lawyerland (FSG, 1997), a book of 
prose, which is being  developed into a film by John Malkovich. His poems, 
essays and critical writings  have appeared widely in publications in the United 
States and internationally.  He has received two NEA poetry fellowships, a 
Guggenheim fellowship, and is the  third recipient of the New York County Lawyers 
Association's "Law and Literature  Award." A distinguished scholar in labor 
and employment law, tort and  compensation law, and legal theory, he is the 
Tinnelly Professor of Law at St.  John's University School of Law. Married to the 
painter Nancy Van Goethem, he  lives in downtown Manhattan. 
Followed by a special panel of Connecticut  lawyers and other experts: 
Richard S.  Kay is the Wallace Stevens Professor of Law at the University of  
Connecticut. He has a special interest in matters of interpretation and in  
the role of law in organizing human experience – both matters on which he finds 
 Wallace Stevens to be of particular relevance. 
Henry F.  Murray is a union-side labor lawyer at the  firm of Livingston, 
Adler, Pulda, Meiklejohn & Kelly in Hartford.  Hank is a member of the HFEWS 
Board of  Directors, he has taught as an adjunct professor at the UConn Law 
School, and is  the author of The Poetic  Imagination of Karl Llewellyn, 29 Univ. of 
Toledo Law Review 27 (Fall 1997)   
Kerry  Driscoll is a professor of English at Saint Joseph College in West  
Hartford.  In addition to being a fan of Wallace Stevens, Professor  Driscoll 
has written extensively on William Carlos Williams, a contemporary of  Stevens, 
and she is currently completing a book on Mark Twain (that “other”  Hartford 
writer...).   
Reception with light hors d’ouevres begins at  6:30 P.M. 
After Program: Birthday Cake and  Champagne! 
Tickets: $30 per person; send check payable to:  
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford CT  06103. 
Or  call to reserve tickets at the door: 860-695-6360. 
For  more info, please contact Jim Finnegan, _JforJames at aol.com_ 
(mailto:JforJames at aol.com)  
Presented by The Friends and Enemies of Wallace  Stevens and the Connecticut 
Center for the Book, a program of the Hartford  Public Library. 
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