Come see award-winning poet James Richardson

To kick off the 19th Annual Villanova Literary Festival, we are pleased to host poet James Richardson at Tuesday January 31st at 7PM. James Richardson's newest collection, During , which appeared in January 2016, was awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola prize for the best manuscript in progress. His other books include By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms , which was a 2010 National Book Award finalist and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of 2010;" Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms , which was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. The reading will be held in the Radnor/St. David's Room in the Connelly Center.