James Toupin

James Toupin is a retired federal government lawyer, former general counsel of the US Patent and Trademark office, who has published poems in dozens of journals, including Pleiades, Nimrod and Beloit Poetry Journal. His first book of poetry, Upon the Century Called American (Main Street Rag Publishing), appeared in 2024. He is also a published translator, of Selected Letters of Alexis de Tocqueville on Politics and Society (University of California Press), and writer on legal topics.