Bin Ramke

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

Life
He graduated from 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, which he resigned from after Foetry.com learned that he was involved in the 1999 Contemporary Poetry series contest when series judge Jorie Graham selected the manuscript of Peter M. Sacks, her boyfriend at the time, whom she subsequently married.

He teaches at the University of Denver. He edited the literary magazine Denver Quarterly from 1994 to 2011. He lives in Denver with his wife, Linda, a fiction writer, and their son, Nic.

Awards

 * 1978 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
 * 1994 Iowa Poetry Prize
 * 1998 Iowa Poetry Prize

Criticism

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