Richard Deming


Richard Deming is the Director of Creative Writing and a Senior Lecturer in English at Yale University, where he has taught since 2002.
An American poet, 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, Art of the Ordinary: The Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Philosophy, and Poetry, and Orson Welles's Touch of Evil – as well as two collections of poems, Let's Not Call it Consequence and Day for Night.
He has also published essays in the collections Looking at Robert Gardner: Essays on His Films and Career, A Power to Translate the World: New Essays on Emerson and International Culture, Philosophy and the Films of Charlie Kaufman, Frank O'Hara Now: New Essays on the New York Poet, Ronald Johnson: Life and Works, and I Have Imagined a Center // Wilder than This Region: Essays on Susan Howe.
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 podcastsThis is Not a Pipe and Poemtalk.

Life

Deming graduated from the University at Buffalo, where he studied with Robert Creeley, Charles Bernstein and Susan Howe, earning a Ph.D with Distinction in American Literature and Poetics in 2003.
He is married to the poet Nancy Kuhl; together, they edit the New Haven-based Phylum Press.
He currently teaches at Yale University, where he is also the Director of Creative Writing; in the past, he has taught at Wesleyan University.

Awards

Poetry

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