James Richardson (poet)

James Richardson (born January 1, 1950) is an American poet.

James Richardson
Born (1950-01-01) January 1, 1950 (age 74)
Garden City, New York, USA
OccupationPoet and critic
Period1977–present

Career and education

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James Richardson is an American poet and critic. He is a retired Professor of English & Creative Writing at Princeton University, where he had taught since 1980.[1] He grew up in Garden City, New York and attended Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude in 1971. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1975.

Richardson is the author of several collections of poetry, criticism, and aphorisms, and has been awarded or nominated for some of the top awards in American literature, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

His work has appeared in multiple editions of The Best American Poetry, and in publications including The New Yorker, Paris Review, and Slate.

Awards

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Bibliography

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Poetry

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Collections
  • Richardson, James (1977). Reservations. Princeton UP.
  • — (1984). Second guesses. Wesleyan.
  • As If. Persea Books. April 1992. ISBN 978-0-89255-171-2.
  • How Things Are. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-88748-327-1.
  • Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms. Ausable Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-931337-21-2.
  • By The Numbers. Copper Canyon Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-55659-320-8.
  • During. Copper Canyon Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-55659-433-5.
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Essay on clouds 2015 Richardson, James (February 2, 2015). "Essay on clouds". The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 46. pp. 42–43.
How I became a saint 2016 Richardson, James (August 8–15, 2016). "How I became a saint". The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 24. p. 47.

Aphorisms

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  • Richardson, James (2001). Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays. Ausable Press. ISBN 9780967266886. James Richardson (poet) vectors.
  • — (2013). "Vectors 3.1 : aphorisms and ten second essays". In Henderson, Bill (ed.). The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013. Pushcart Press. pp. 542–546. [3]

Criticism

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Appearances in anthologies

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References

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  1. ^ "James Richardson - Lewis Center for the Arts". Archived from the original on 2012-10-15. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
  2. ^ "Jackson Poetry Prize". 12 February 2008.
  3. ^ Originally published in Hotel Amerika 9.2 (Spring 2011)
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