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Name
  
Richard Robbins


Role
  
Poet

Books
  
Radioactive City, London Underground: Poems, Famous Persons We Have Known: Poems, The invisible wedding

Education
  
University of Montana, San Diego State University

Richard Robbins (born in Los Angeles) is an American poet.

Contents

Life

He grew up in Southern California and Montana. 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,

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

  • Body Turn to Rain: New and Selected Poems, Lynx House Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0899241517
  • 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

    • Editors

  • Lex Runciman, Richard Robbins, eds. (1978). Where we are: the Montana poets anthology. CutBank/SmokeRoot Press. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

    • References

    Richard Robbins (poet) Wikipedia
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