Bin Ramke

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

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.

Recognition

 * 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



Criticism

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