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A poet himself, Richard Deming talks about words, meaning and meaningfulness.

Richard Deming is a poet and a theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford UP, 2008), and he contributes to such magazines as Artforum, Sight & Sound, and The Boston Review. His poems have appeared in such places as Iowa Review, Field, Indiana Review, and The Nation. He teaches at Yale University where he is the Director of Creative Writing. He was the Spring 2012 John P. Birkelund Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.

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