Doug Ramspeck's poetry collection, Black Tupelo Country, was awarded the 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and will be published in the fall of 2008 by BkMk Press. His poems have appeared in West Branch, Connecticut Review, Seneca Review, Confrontation Magazine, Rattle, Nimrod, and numerous other literary journals. He directs the Writing Center and teaches creative writing and composition at The Ohio State University at Lima. He lives in Lima with his wife, Beth, and their seventeen-year-old daughter, Lee.

Other poems on the web by Doug Ramspeck:
"Tupelos"
"Love Theory"
Three poems
Four poems
"Smoke and Ash"
"Waterborne"
Two poems
"Ritual Cloud Line"

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