Bin Ramke
Professor and Phipps Chair
Professional Biography
Born in Pt. Neches, TX 1947; after completing a PhD at Ohio University returned to the south (Columbus, GA); won Yale Younger Poets Award, first book published in 1978. In 1985 moved to Denver. His fourteenth book of poems will appear in 2021. Edited a poetry series for the University of Georgia Press for twenty-one years (83 books); edited the Denver Quarterly for seventeen years. Occasionally teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Married to Linda Keating Ramke since 1967. They have one child, Nicolas.
Degree(s)
- Ph.D., Contemporary British and American Literature, Ohio University, 1975
- MA, Modern American Literature, University of New Orleans, 1971
- BA, English, Louisiana State University, 1970
