Lloyd Binford Ramke (born 19 February 1947, in

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) is an American

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and

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Life

He graduated from

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, from

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, and from

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with a Ph.D. He taught at

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. He was editor of the

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's Contemporary Poetry Series, from 1984 to 2005. He teaches at the

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. He edited the literary magazine ''

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'' from 1994 to 2011. He lives in Denver with his wife, Linda, a fiction writer, and their son, Nic.

Awards

* 1978

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* 1994 Iowa Poetry Prize * 1998 Iowa Poetry Prize

Works

* * * * * * * * Book Review for ''Matter'' by Bin Ramke", ''Bookslut'', Olivia Cronk, March 2005
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Anthologies

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Criticism

References

External links

"Noble Rider: A Profile of Bin Ramke", ''Poets & Writers'', September/October 2007
* ttp://www.epoetry.org/issues/issue8/text/poems/ramke1.htm "Was It Fallen It Was a Floating World "; "It Was Fallen Was It a Floating World", ''Electronic Poetry Review #8''br>"Who Is Dying", ''Electronic Poetry Review #8''
* ttp://www.epoetry.org/issues/issue1/alltext/ramke.htm "Livery of Seisin", ''Electronic Poetry Review #1''br>"Arcade: The Search for a Sufficient Landscape", ''Poetry Foundation''
* ttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=181683 "Trouble Deaf Heaven", ''Poetry Foundation''br>"Anomalies of Water"; "Custody of the Eyes"; "How it Feels, and Why", ''Salt Magazine'', Issue 2
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