Richard Deming – director of creative writing

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 (Stanford University Press, 2008), Art of the Ordinary: The Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Philosophy, and Poetry (Cornell University Press, 2018), and Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil (British Film Institute/Bloomsbury, forthcoming) – as well as two collections of poems, Let’s Not Call it Consequence (Shearsman Books, 2008) and Day for Night (Shearsman, 2016).

Books in order of publication:

Let’s Not Call It Consequence. Shearsman Books. 2008. 

Day for Night. Shearsman Books. 2016. 

Criticism

Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading. Stanford University Press. 2008. 

Art of the Ordinary: the Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Philosophy, and Poetry. Cornell University Press. 2018. 

Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil. British Film Institute/Bloomsbury. May 2020. 

This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity. Penguin Random House. 2023.