James Richardson

James Richardson’s collections of poems, aphorisms, and ten-second essays include For Now; During, the winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of America; By the Numbers, a National Book Award finalist; Interglacial, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and Vectors. He is the winner of the Jackson Prize for lifetime achievement in poetry and a Presidential Teaching Award from Princeton University, where he is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing. Richardson lives on a wooded hillside near Princeton with his wife and first reader, the scholar-critic Constance W. Hassett, author of the go-to book on Christina Rossetti. They have two daughters, one a creative director/editor and poet, one a professor of criminal  justice.