February 16, 2023
Acclaimed poet and lawyer Lawrence Joseph talks about the vocation of writing as a calling, a compulsion, a necessity, drawing on personal stories as the grandson of Lebanese and Syrian Catholic immigrants. He reads several of his poems. Joseph is the author of several collections of poetry, including "A Certain Clarity" (2020), "So Where Are We?" (2017) and "Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos" (2005). His debut, "Shouting at No One" (1983), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Professor of law emeritus at St. John’s University School of Law, he is also author of the prose work "Lawyerland: What Lawyers Talk About When They Talk About the Law" (1997).
The Vocation of the Writer Lecture is cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program as part of its Working Writers Series and the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.