About this Event
Join us for a talk by San Francisco poet, author, lawyer, and restaurateur John Briscoe, who will discuss his forthcoming essay examining the widespread plagiarism of women's writing throughout the Western literary canon. Briscoe has published poetry, articles on law, literature, and history, and several books, including Crush: The Triumph of California Wine, The Lost Poems of Cangjie, and Tadich Grill: The Story of San Francisco's Oldest Restaurant. He is the senior partner at the San Francisco law firm Briscoe Ivester & Bazel LLP, a distinguished fellow at UC Berkeley, and has served for over two decades on the advisory board of the creative-writing MFA program at St. Mary's College of California.
Since 1972 he has argued and tried cases in the United States Supreme Court, in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and in courts across the country. The senior partner in the San Francisco law firm Briscoe Ivester & Bazel LLP, Briscoe served as a special adviser to the United Nations concerning the environmental devastation caused by Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait during the Gulf War, and has represented nations in boundary and in law-of-war disputes. A distinguished fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, he has served for 22 years on the advisory board of the creative-writing MFA program at St. Mary’s College of California. He sits on the boards of several historical societies, and other organizations as well.
Briscoe is co-owner of Sam’s Grill in San Francisco, founded in 1867 and the fifth-oldest restaurant in the United States. Writers, artists, poets, pipefitters, carpenters, journalists, laborers, lawyers and the political class all come to Sam’s, to be home.
Free for members, $5 for non-members
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Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, United States
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