Richard Robbins (poet) explained

Richard Robbins (born in Los Angeles) is an American poet.^[1] 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.Before his recent retirement, he taught for 37 years at Minnesota State University, Mankato,^{[3] [4]}

Awards

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

Works

• The Oratory of All Souls, Lynx House Press, 2023,
• Body Turn to Rain: New and Selected Poems, Lynx House Press, 2017,
• Other Americas, Blueroad Press, 2010.
• Radioactive City, Bellday Books, 2009.
• Book: The Untested Hand. Backwaters Press. 2008. 978-0-9793934-7-1 .
• Book: Famous Persons We Have Known. Eastern Washington University Press. 2000. 978-0-910055-65-9 .
• Book: The Invisible Wedding. University of Missouri Press. 1984. 0-8262-0438-4. registration.
• Toward New Weather [chapbook], Frontier Award Committee, 1978^[5]

Editors

• Book: Where we are: the Montana poets anthology. Lex Runciman . Richard Robbins. CutBank/SmokeRoot Press. 1978 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Whidbey Island Writers Association - Conference Home Page . 2009-12-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091008180706/http://writeonwhidbey.org/Conference/genrepoe.html . 2009-10-08 .
2. Web site: Redroom.com - Earn Money | Save Money | Multiply Money. redroom.com. 2016-06-13.
3. Web site: Richard Robbins Home Page. https://web.archive.org/web/20060903083046/http://english2.mnsu.edu/robbins/ . 2006-09-03 . dead. 2016-06-13.
4. Web site: Richard Robbins | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers. pw.org. 2016-06-13.
5. Web site: Toward New Weather. https://web.archive.org/web/20060903091509/http://english2.mnsu.edu/robbins/tnw.html . 2006-09-03 . dead. 2016-06-13.