Richard Robbins (born in Los Angeles) is an American poet.
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,
1978 Frontier AwardThe Loft Award of Distinction in PoetryMinnesota State Arts Board FellowshipNational Endowment for the Arts Fellowship2009 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award, from the Poetry Society of America.Body Turn to Rain: New and Selected Poems, Lynx House Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0899241517Other Americas, Blueroad Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9796509-3-2Radioactive City, Bellday Books, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9793376-2-8The 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, 1978Lex Runciman, Richard Robbins, eds. (1978). Where we are: the Montana poets anthology. CutBank/SmokeRoot Press. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)