Richard Deming

Richard Deming is an American poet and philosopher of literature.

Life

He graduated from the University at Buffalo with a Ph.d. He studied with Robert Creeley, Charles Bernstein and Susan Howe. In the past, he has taught at Wesleyan University. He currently teaches at Yale University.

His poems have appeared in such places as Sulfur,^[1] Field, Indiana Review, and The Nation, as well as Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present.

He is married to the poet Nancy Kuhl,^[2] and they edit the New Haven-based Phylum Press.^[3][4][5]

Awards

• 2009 Norma Farber First Book Award, Let's Not Call It Consequence^[6]
• 2012 John P. Birkelund Berlin Prize in the Humanities and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring 2012

Works

• "From Some Elsewhere". Free Verse. Spring 2006.
• "Film Threat". The Nation. October 22, 2008.
• "Shall I Read from the History of the Battle of Thermopylae?; After Kurosawa". conjunctions.
• "Knock Knock". Counterpath Press.

Poetry

• Let's Not Call It Consequence. Shearsman Books. 2008. ISBN 978-1-905700-66-0.

Criticism

• Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading. Stanford University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8047-5738-6.

References

1. "Sulfur Issue #42". Webdelsol.com. Retrieved 2012-09+-15. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
2. "23 APR 07". Kickingwind.com. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
3. Hank Hoffman (February 18, 2009). "Poetry Is Richard Deming's Native Tongue". The New Haven Independent.
4. "Arts Council of Greater New Haven". Newhavenarts.org. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
5. "Poets Richard Deming and Nancy Kuhl read from their work Dec. 8". News-releases.uiowa.edu. 2008-11-25. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
6. "Richard Deming Awarded 2009 Norma Farber First Book Award « Poetry at Beinecke Library". Beineckepoetry.wordpress.com. 2009-03-09. Retrieved 2012-09-15.

External links

• "Interview", Roberto Tejada, Rust Talks t
• Author's website