Limestone Professor Dr. Alex Richardson Has New Poem Selected for Publication

Limestone University Professor of English Dr. Alex Richardson will soon have a poem featured in Ropes, a literary journal produced by the University of Galway in Ireland.

The poem, Attic Ghosts, will appear in Issue 33 of the journal, which is scheduled for release in April. The theme for the edition is “Roots,” with writers and artists invited to explore and interpret what that theme means to them.

In Attic Ghosts, Richardson reflects on the theme by encouraging readers to turn inward and consider what grounds them to their sense of self.

“I think it’s about the way that we can be distracted from ourselves or lose focus but somehow go deeper into ourselves in the process and gain an understanding we had not imagined,” said Richardson, who also serves as Limestone’s Dean of the College of Humanities and Computing. “Maybe it’s about the good that can come from being distracted – that distraction can lead us to something more meaningful than what we were trying to do in the first place.”

Richardson has taught at Limestone for more than 20 years and was the University’s 2020 recipient of the South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Excellence in Teaching Award.

His poetry collection, Porch Night on Walnut Street, is available through Plain View Press. He has published poems in more than 40 literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, including Rattle, Barrow Street, Free Lunch, The Southeast Review, and POEM.

In 2009, Richardson received a Fulbright Scholar award, which allowed him to teach American culture courses at the University of Madeira in Portugal. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English from the University of South Carolina and his doctoral degree in English from the University of Southern Mississippi.