Richard Deming is the Director of Creative Writing and a Senior Lecturer in English at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

, where he has taught since 2002. An American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ...

, theorist, and art critic, he is the author of five books: three books of criticism – ''Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading'' (Stanford University Press, 2008), ''Art of the Ordinary: The Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Philosophy, and Poetry'' (Cornell University Press, 2018), and ''Orson Welles's Touch of Evil'' (British Film Institute/Bloomsbury, forthcoming) – as well as two collections of poems, ''Let's Not Call it Consequence'' (Shearsman Books, 2008) and ''Day for Night'' (Shearsman, 2016). He has also published essays in the collections ''Looking at Robert Gardner: Essays on His Films and Career'' (eds. William Rothman and Charles Warren, SUNY Press, 2016), ''A Power to Translate the World: New Essays on Emerson and International Culture'' (ed. Ricardo Miguel Alfonso, University Press of New England, 2015), ''Philosophy and the Films of Charlie Kaufman'' (ed. David LaRocca, University of Kentucky Press, 2011), ''Frank O'Hara Now: New Essays on the New York Poet'' (eds. Robert Hampton and Will Montgomery, Liverpool University Press, 2010), ''Ronald Johnson: Life and Works'' (eds. Eric Selinger and Joel Bettridge, Orono: National Poetry Foundation Press, 2008), and ''I Have Imagined a Center // Wilder than This Region: Essays on Susan Howe'' (Ed. Sarah Campbell, Cuneiform Press, 2007). Deming is a member of the editorial boards of ''Evental Aesthetics'' and the ''Yale Review'', and has published essays and reviews in ''Artforum, Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, Poetics Today, Notre Dame Review,'' et al., while his poems have appeared in such publications as ''Sulfur, Field, Indiana Review,'' and ''The Nation'', as well as the collection ''Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present.'' Deming has also been featured on episodes of the podcasts ''This is Not a Pipe'', ''Poemtalk, '' and ''First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing''. His most recent book, ''This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity'', received enthusiastic reviews in ''The American Scholar'', and ''Psychology Today'', and was excerpted in ''The Paris Review''.

Life

Deming graduated from the

University at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1 ...

, where he studied with

Robert Creeley Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Ch ...

, Charles Bernstein and

Susan Howe Susan Howe (born June 10, 1937) is an American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among other poetry movements.

, earning a Ph.D with Distinction in American Literature and Poetics in 2003. He is married to the poet

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; together, they edit the New Haven-based ''Phylum Press''. He currently teaches at

, where he is also the Director of Creative Writing; in the past, he has taught at

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the c ...

Awards

* 2009

Norma Farber First Book Award The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year". Poetry Society of ...

, ''Let's Not Call It Consequence'' * 2012 John P. Birkelund Berlin Prize in the Humanities and Fellow at th
American Academy in Berlin
for Spring 2012 *2017 Writer-in-Residence, Gloucester Writers Center.

Works

Poetry

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Criticism

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References

External links

PennSound Audio Archive: Richard Deming"Listening to Words," TEDxYale Lecture (Video)"Interview", Roberto Tejada, ''Rust Talks''
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