- PBS Newshour features Richter’s “Prayer for the Hanoi Man Who Waits for Breakdowns on His Block” as Weekly Poem
- Richter blogs for Wordstock, Portland’s annual literary festival
- Threshold is chosen as a 2011 Oregon Book Awards Finalist by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Pinsky’s judge’s comment calls Richter a poet with “cool and wit,” and notes that the poems in Threshold “achieve a memorably purposeful, quiet intensity.”
- Richter is awarded a 2011 Oregon Literary Fellowship
- Poems from Threshold are featured in the online anthology www.poetry.us.com
- The Oregon Poetic Voices Project features audio recordings of Richter reading four poems from Threshold
- Threshold is one of two poetry books in the country recommended and reviewed in the “Winter Reading” issue of the Eugene Weekly, December 16, 2010
- “Best of 2010: The Poetry Edition,” a review of Threshold, December 16, 2010
- Threshold makes the Poetry Foundation’s contemporary best seller list for the week of Oct. 24, 2010
- Richter is named “Best Poet of the Willamette Valley” in the 2010 Readers’ Choice issue of the Corvallis Gazette-Times, October 30, 2010
- “The Examined Life: A Poet Talks about the Power of the Liberal Arts,” The Key Reporter, Phi Beta Kappa’s national quarterly publication, Fall 2010, page 6
- “Alumni Type: Recent Books by I.U. Graduates,” a review of Threshold in the Indiana Alumni Magazine, September/October 2010
- Review of Threshold on Goodreads, September 4, 2010
- Poetry Daily features “Everywhere the Earth Is Opening,” a poem from Threshold, on July 31, 2010
- “Poetry: Jennifer Richter on Hope, Health, and Near Misses,” The Oregonian, Sunday Books section, July 25, 2010
- “Brace Yourself,” a review of Threshold in The Rumpus.net, July 21, 2010
- June, 2010: Two months after its initial release date, Threshold has gone into a second printing
- “Poetry Inspired By Adversity,” The Daily Barometer, Corvallis, OR, April 2010
- Interview: Reading Local: Portland, Portland, OR, February 2010
Winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition
Published by Southern Illinois University Press