James Richardson’s sixth book, Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms (Ausable, 2004), was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry (Scribner, 2001 & 2005), Harold Bloom’s American Religious Poems (Library of America, 2006) and David Lehman’s Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003). He teaches at Princeton University. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 16 (2009).