Written Arts Program and Bard Houses Presents

A Reading with Richard Deming

On Monday, February 26 at 5:30 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Richard Deming will read from his book, This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity. Introduced by Written Arts Program Director Dinaw Mengestu and followed by a discussion with David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature Ann Lauterbach.

Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His most recent book, This Exquisite Loneliness, appeared in 2023. He is also the author of Day for Night, Listening on All Sides, and Art of the Ordinary. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence, received the Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America. He contributes to such magazines as Artforum, Sight & Sound, and the Boston Review, and his poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, Field, American Letters & Commentary, and The Nation. Winner of the Berlin Prize, he was the Spring 2012 John P. Birkelund Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He teaches at Yale University, where he is the director of Creative Writing.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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