Richard Robbins

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. Before his recent retirement, he taught for 37 years at Minnesota State University, Mankato, 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. Toward New Weather [chapbook], Frontier Award Committee, 1978