Poetry Path: Lawrence Joseph
Lawrence Joseph was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, as the grandson to Catholic Syrian immigrants. A lawyer as well as a poet, Joseph has written six volumes of poetry, including Shouting at No One (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983), which received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Joseph’s accolades include the Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Joseph currently teaches law at St. John’s University School of Law.
Photo by Daniel Terna
Lawrence Joseph, “Once Again” from Into It. Copyright © 2005 by Lawrence Joseph. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC.
The Poetry Path is made possible through a partnership with Battery Park City Authority, partners in design and fabrication of the Poetry Path, with additional support from our Outreach Partner, Goldman Sachs. Special thanks to the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation for funding the Poetry Path planning process, and to the Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation for supporting Poetry Path educational initiatives for youth and children.