James Richardson

Poet

Princeton, NJ
New Jersey US

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Best American Poetry 2016 (Scribner, 2016)
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Pushcart Prize XXXVII (Pushcart Press, 2012)
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Best American Poetry 2011 (Scribner, 2011)
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Best American Poetry 2010 (Scribner, 2010)
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Pushcart Prize XXXIV (Pushcart Press, 2010)
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Best American Poetry 2009 (Scribner, 2009)
,
Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (Bloomsbury USA, 2007)
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Best American Poetry 2005 (Scribner, 2005)
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Great American Prose Poems (Scribner, 2003)
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Best American Poetry 2001 (Scribner, 2001)
Books:
For Now: Poems, Aphorisms, Ten-Second Essays, Microforms (Copper Canyon Press, 2020)
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During (Copper Canyon Press, 2016)
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By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
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Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms (Ausable Press, 2004)
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays (Ausable Press, 2001)
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How Things Are (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000)
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As If (Persea Books, 1992)
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Second Guesses (Wesleyan University Press, 1984)
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Reservations (Princeton University Press, 1977)
Chapbook:
A Suite for Lucretians (Quarterly Review of Literature, 1999)
Prizes won: 

2015 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of America, 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize. Finalist, 2010 National Book Award. Finalist, 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award. 2002 Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Bradenton, FL
Florida
Raised in: 
Garden City, NY
New York
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Last update: Feb 08, 2024