Richard Robbins (poet)

Richard Robbins (born in Los Angeles) is an American poet.^[1]

Life

He grew up in Southern California and Montana.^[2] He graduated from San Diego State University, and University of Montana, with an M.F.A. in 1979, where he studied with Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees. He teaches at Minnesota State University, Mankato,^[3][4] and University of Nebraska at Omaha.^[5]

Awards

• 1978 Frontier Award
• The Loft Award of Distinction in Poetry
• Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 2009 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award, from the Poetry Society of America.

Works

• Other Americas, Blueroad Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9796509-3-2
• Radioactive City, Bellday Books, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9793376-2-8
• The Untested Hand. Backwaters Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-9793934-7-1.
• Famous Persons We Have Known. Eastern Washington University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-910055-65-9.
• The Invisible Wedding. University of Missouri Press. 1984. ISBN 0-8262-0438-4.
• Toward New Weather [chapbook], Frontier Award Committee, 1978^[6]

Editors

• Lex Runciman, Richard Robbins, eds. (1978). Where we are: the Montana poets anthology. CutBank/SmokeRoot Press.

References

1. http://writeonwhidbey.org/Conference/genrepoe.html
2. "Redroom.com - Earn Money | Save Money | Multiply Money". redroom.com. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
3. "Richard Robbins Home Page". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
4. "Richard Robbins | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". pw.org. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
5. http://www.unomaha.edu/unmfaw/Faculty/Faculty3.php#robbins
6. "Toward New Weather". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2016-06-13.

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