About
James Richardson is a poet, aphorist, and Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Princeton University. He is the recipient of the 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.
FOR NOW, Richardson’s newest collection of poems, aphorisms, ten-second essays and microlyrics was published by Copper Canyon in 2020, His other books include During (2016), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Castagnola Prize; By the Numbers, which was a 2010 National Book Award finalist and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of 2010"; Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms, which was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award; Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays; How Things Are; As If; Second Guesses; Reservations, which was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, and two critical studies, Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Necessity and Vanishing Lives: Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti, Swinburne and Yeats.