Bin Ramke is the editor of both the Contemporary Poetry Series for the University of Georgia Press, and the Denver Quarterly. He is the author of seven books of poems, including The Difference Between Night and Day which won the 1978 Yale Younger Poets Award and most recently, Airs, Waters, Places (Iowa, 2001). He teaches creative writing at the University of Denver.

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Poets in this issue: Pamela Alexander, Edmund August, Barry Ballard, Walter Bargen, Catharine Savage Brosman, Joyce S. Brown, Frederick Buechner, Michael Burkard, Katharine Coles, Martha Collins, Mary Crow, Thomas Day, Carl Dennis, Stuart Dybek, Mark Halperin, Jeffrey Harrison, Colette Inez, Maxine Kumin, Ann Lauinger, William Logan, Mario Luzi, Clarence Major, David Middleton, Robert Murphy, Marilyn Nelson, Kevin Prufer, Bin Ramke, Vivian Shipley, Bruce Smith, David Starkey, Larissa Szporluk, Henry Taylor, Greg Williamson