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Posted by Writing Specialist
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09/29/2010 at 01:58 PM
If You Ask Your Attorney To Be Concise by Seth Abramson, Esq.
When he speaks, it will not be to describe those neighbors you were born to,whose boys like grim ferrets poked their heads out the weedsand stole caps from your juiced Honda; because he knows you loved life in the neighborhood / and may even have loved sending
your furtive retrievers, like warhorses, out to battle with the locals, and did treat them well - your retrievers - once they'd plunged down hillsides with red tongues and upturned noses, doing so only because you'd asked them to, and...
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09/01/2010 at 10:21 AM
"Writing" Down the House
How about a little mid-week poetry to shake up your neurons? I wrote this poem in April for a contest sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The prompt was to write a poem based on/in response to/or just tangentially related to a poem by John Keats called "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer."
Hip Hop Homer:
After Keats’s “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
Yo, yo Homer. He’s a freakin’ home boy.
Never done much trippin’.
‘Cept when he was sippin’ MaiTais at the local.
Still, he ain’t no yokel.
Bounces in the realms of gold.
Shit. ...
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08/19/2010 at 02:52 PM
"Writing" Down the House
Students often ask me to suggest ways they can improve their writing. Believe it or not, one of my first responses is READ! Yes, there are many writing exercises you can do to improve writing skills. But do not overlook the power of reading to improve your vocabulary and to see how good writers put sentences together.
Interestingly, many lawyers are not only good legal writers, but they are also novelists (think Grisham) and poets. Yup. Poets.
So if you love good writing, check out the website below, Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and Poetry for a comprehensive...