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

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Career and education

James Richardson is an American poet and critic. He is a retired Professor of English & Creative Writing at

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, where he had taught since 1980. He grew up in

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and attended

, graduating ''summa cum laude'' in 1971. He earned his Ph.D. from the

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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

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, and the

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* Cecil Hemley Award,

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* Emily Dickinson Award,

* NEH Fellowship * New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship * 1991

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* National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, for ''Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms'' * 2010 National Book Award finalist for ''By the Numbers'' * 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize (awarded by Poets & Writers)

Bibliography

Poetry

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Aphorisms

* * Originally published in ''Hotel Amerika'' 9.2 (Spring 2011)

Criticism

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Appearances in anthologies

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References

External links

"End of Summer", ''The New Yorker'', September 3, 2007"In Shakespeare", ''The New Yorker'', February 12, 2007"Subject, Verb, Object", ''The New Yorker'', December 3, 2007
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