James Richardson 's collections of poems and aphorisms include For Now; During, which received the Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America; National Book Award finalist By the Numbers; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Interglacial; Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays; and How Things Are, which was also published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. He is professor emeritus of creative writing at Princeton University and lives in New Jersey.