Richard Lyons is an American poet and teacher.
He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, from the University of Arizona with an M.F.A.
During 1979 and 1980, he taught at the University of Maryland, then at Rhodes College.
He teaches in the English Department at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi, since 1994.
His work appeared in The Nation, Poetry, The New Republic, The Paris Review,[1] and The North American Review.