Bin Ramke

Lloyd Binford Ramke (born 19 February 1947 Port Neches, Texas) is an American poet and editor.

Bin Ramke

Life

He graduated from at Louisiana State University, from University of New Orleans, and from Ohio University with a Ph.D. He taught at Columbus College.

He was editor of the University of Georgia Press's Contemporary Poetry Series, from 1984 to 2005. In 2005, he became involved in the Contemporary Poetry Series controversy about Jorie Graham's selection of Peter Sacks. He resigned as editor.

He teaches at the University of Denver. He edits the literary magazine Denver Quarterly. He lives in Denver with his wife, Linda, a fiction writer, and their son, Nic.

Awards

• 1978 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

Works

• "Nothing Prior to Anything"; "Hear Here"; "Poor in World", Tarpaulin Sky, Fall/Winter 06
• "Was It Fallen It Was a Floating World "; "It Was Fallen Was It a Floating World", Electronic Poetry Review #8
• "Who Is Dying", Electronic Poetry Review #8
• "Lies", Electronic Poetry Review #8
• "The Naming of Shadows and Colors", Electronic Poetry Review #7
• "Livery of Seisin", Electronic Poetry Review #1
• "Arcade: The Search for a Sufficient Landscape", Poetry Foundation
• "Better Late than Never", Poetry Foundation
• "Chivalric", Poetry Foundation
• "Cinema Verité", Poetry Foundation
• "Melting Pot", Poetry Foundation
• "The Center for Atmospheric Research", Poetry Foundation
• "Trouble Deaf Heaven", Poetry Foundation
• "Anomalies of Water"; "Custody of the Eyes"; "How it Feels, and Why", Salt Magazine, Issue 2

• The Difference Between Night and Day. Yale University Press. 1978. ISBN 978-0-300-02232-2.
• White Monkeys. University of Georgia Press. 1981. ISBN 978-0-8203-0544-8.
• The Language Student. Louisiana State University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-8071-1344-8.
• The Erotic Light of Gardens. Wesleyan University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-8195-2171-2.
• Massacre of the Innocents. University of Iowa Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-87745-492-2.
• Wake. University of Iowa Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-87745-658-2.
• Airs, Waters, Places. University of Iowa Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-87745-776-3.
• Matter. University of Iowa Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-87745-900-2.
• Tendril. Omnidawn Publishing. 2007. ISBN 978-1-890650-26-1.

Anthologies

• "How Light is Spent". The Best American Poetry 1995. Simon and Schuster. 1995. ISBN 978-0-684-80151-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• The Morrow anthology of younger American poets. Quill. 1985. ISBN 978-0-688-03450-4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• "A Little Ovid Late in the Day; A Livery of Seisin; A Theory of Fantasy". The new Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American poetry. UPNE. 1999. ISBN 978-0-87451-950-1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)

Criticism

• "Celebrating a World in Danger", Boston Review, 27.5

External links

• "Noble Rider: A Profile of Bin Ramke", Poets & Writers, September/October 2007
• "Bin Ramke", Foetry: American Poetry Watchdog