Richard Lyons (writer)
Richard Eugene Lyons was an American poet, and Professor of English at North Dakota State University from 1950 to 1982.Life
He joined with the newly organized North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies in its investigation of the culture, history, and heritage of North Dakota.
His poems have appeared in the Quarterly Review of Literature, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Nation. He was also a graphic artist who had paintings and prints in regional and national exhibitions.
His papers are held at North Dakota State University.Works
- Men and Tin Kettles, A. Swallow, 1956
- One Squeaking Straw
- Paintings in Taxicabs
- Above Time
Editor
- Poetry North: Five Poets of North Dakota
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- Invisible poems, Merrykit Press, 1976
- Scanning the Land: Poems in North Dakota. Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1980,
