James Richardson is the author of numerous poetry collections, including
Within the Hour: Poems and Aphorisms, 1971–2026 (Copper Canyon Press, 2026), By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms, and During, winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. Among his honors are the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Emily Dickinson Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Princeton University.

Quasar

An iPoem

by James Richardson

How did the light take forty years

to work its way, through the dancers,
across that crowded room

People on couch

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