Poetry Porch: Poets
About Ted Richer (1931 - 2022)
A Graduate of Iowa Writers’ Worshop and a Founding Faculty Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The Writer in the Story and Other Figurations was published in England by Apocalypse Press (2003), and Six Figurations by Pen & Anvil Press in Boston, Massachusetts (2016). He has published in numerous journals, including AGNI, Literary Imagination, Harvard Review, James Joyce Quarterly, Leviathan, New York Quarterly, Free Inquiry, The Poetry Porch, Poetry Northeast, Clarion, and Daedelus. Richer was subject of a BBC Radio 3 presentation by Christopher Ricks on Twenty Minutes. His work has been included in the anthology Joining Music with Reason: 34 Poets, British and American, Oxford 2004-2009, chosen by Sir Christopher Ricks (Waywiser, 2010). He was poetry editor at Free Inquiry and taught poetry at Bridgewater State University and Quincy College.
